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The relation between cinema and political, the film «The Conversation» of Coppola, in the big screen, the official section or the contest between the short films of novel Galician authors, between the activities programmed

The FICBUEU will recover one of the less known films of the realizador Francis Ford Coppola, The Conversation, to close the program of the «III Xornadas Cinematographic». Premièred in 1974, and with Gene Hackman in the leading paper, the film is a thriller on listen them like method of espionage, reflection of the social climate and politician of USA in the years 70 and of the scandal of the Watergate. The projection will take place in the Auditorium of the Social Centre do Sea of Bueu from the 21.00 hours.

06.09.24. BUEU. The films are daughters of his time. This is the starting point of the «III Xornadas Cinematográficas», a space of reflection and thought on cinema created by the FICBUEU that will celebrate tomorrow Saturday. This year the subject turns around the bidirectional relation between politics and cinema and the impact and influence of the historical context and his reflection in the seventh art. To analyse it, film-makers, essayists and professional of different jobs of the audiovisual sector will participate during all day in diverse meetings with the public of the International Festival of Cinema of Bueu.

The days will start to the 11.00 hours with  Sé realista: fai o imposible!, masterclass of Camil Ungureanu, professor of political Philosophy of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona, the one who borrows for his title one of the lemmas of the movement estudiantil of the years 60 of the past century and coined by the philosopher Ernst Bloch. Ungureanu Will deepen in the waves contestatarias and of deep social transformation, political and artistic of the period to show how the cinema turned into one of the maximum expressions of freedom. The film Easy Rider, of Dennis Hopper, is a clear example.

To continuation (12.30 hours), the criticisms Daniela Urzola and Belit Lake will keep a dialogue that have designated Trauma y Reconstrucción to tackle the Holocaust and the Second World War, the historical event and politician more represented in the big screen. They will do it through a route by different cinematografías and big marked films by the memory, the desolation and the effort of the back reconstruction to the horror.

On-line round table and meeting with Jaime Rosales

This same Saturday, already in the afternoon (17.00 hours), there will be a virtual round table in which Jesús Callejo, Guillermo Díaz and Pepa Llausás, members of the team of the pódcast «La escóbula de la brújula» (one of the most notable of the country on history and culture), will speak on the period of entreguerras and the paper of the cinema like tool of propaganda and domination, as well as of criticism and creative freedom. They will examine the Soviet cinema and the Russian Revolution, the German expressionism and the nazi totalitarianism and how the Great Depression (1929-1939) reflected in the global cinema.

Afterwards, from the 19.00 hours, will be the turn of one of the big realizadores that participate this year in the FICBUEU. Jaime Rosales will keep a conversatorio with the critic of cinema Xavier Montoriol. The director of, between other films,  Petra y Girasoles silvestres will analyse the way in which questions like the triumph of the distopía, the effects of the technology or the climatic emergency have left his print in the cinema of the last 25 years.