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The selection of the “Official Section” that will be screened tomorrow Wednesday brings together an experimental film set in Andorra and four other films that explore family relationships

CINEMA WITH A FEMALE PERSPECTIVE TO OPEN THE “OFFICIAL SECTION”

Cinema with a female perspective characterised the block of films that kicked off the “Official Section” of the Bueu International Film Festival yesterday. 4 of the 5 films screened were directed by women. The public was able to see the films “Lemon Tree”, by the American Rachel Walden; “L’été des chaleurs”, by the Canadian director Marie-Pier Dupuis; “If you are happy” directed by the British Phoebe Arnstein; and “3 MWH”, by the Czech creator Marie-Magdalena Kochová. The list of screenings yesterday Monday was completed by “O frío”, a work by the Galician Pablo Dopazo.

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10.09.24. BUEU. The Bueu International Film Festival reaches the halfway point of its “Official Section” tomorrow. The third day of screenings will bring together five short films that will compete until Saturday with the other 24 in competition to enter the FICBUEU 2024 list of winners. They come from different latitudes. From Europe, specifically from Lithuania and Spain, and, on the other side of the Atlantic, from the United States, Brazil and Canada.

Four of the shorts in this block, which will be shown at 7:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., share a common theme: they explore family relationships, albeit from different perspectives and at different times.

Obraza (Resentment) is a film by Lithuanian director Gleb Osatinski. It was nominated for the Berlinale and the Buenos Aires festival has been chosen for its premiere in Spain. Set in Soviet Ukraine in the 1990s, it presents for half an hour Yasha, a 17-year-old teenager who rebels against authority and believes that he can emigrate with his family to New York: when his father opposes, he embarks on a journey that will lead to irreparable damage.

An animated work and a journey in the midst of war

An animated film is Un trou dans la poitrine (A Hole in the Chest), by Alexandra Myotte and Jean-Sébastien Hamel, a duo of scriptwriters and directors based in Montreal. This multi-award-winning eleven-minute piece tells the story of two brothers abandoned to their fate, Zoé and Théo, who must face the problems of their relationship on a stifling summer day. Julia Elihu, an Iranian-American writer and director whose work spans narrative, documentary and commercial (she has created pieces for clients such as Nike and Amazon), directs In the Garden of Tulips, the last car trip of a young girl with her father through the Iranian countryside in the midst of her country’s war with Iraq. Once again, the FICBUEU is hosting its premiere in Spain. Meanwhile, Ruído da pele, a fiction filmed by the Brazilian Gustavo Milan, addresses the intimate relationship between a mother and her 12-year-old son and how it comes to an end when the child experiences his first sexual awakening.

A film about another film

Only Coldness is somewhat outside the thematic script of this block of screenings. There is no family as protagonist in this first short film by the Spanish director Andrea Sánchez. It is an experimental film about a B-series horror film by two Andorran directors that was never released and about how, by invoking that cursed film rehearsal after rehearsal, Andorra becomes the setting for another horror film from which not even its inhabitants can escape.

Discussion with filmmakers

Andrea Sánchez will be one of the filmmakers invited to chat with the FICBUEU audience tomorrow. The director of Obraza will also participate in the discussion with the public. It will be at 8:30 p.m., between the two screenings of the films.