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The International Film Festival of Murcia (IBAFF), promoted by the City of Murcia and born in the Puertas de Castilla Center, presents its ninth edition, which will be held from March 2 to 10 with the Francisco Rabal Regional Film Archive as its headquarters and giving the public the option to experience other ways of understanding cinema.
He will do it with films in Official Selection such as Drift (Helena Wittmann, 2017), Let the Summer Never Come Again (Alexendre Koberidze, 2017) or 3/4 (Illian Metev, 2017);
an honorific cycle to the visual proposal of Lucrecia Martel;
another cycle of shorts in collaboration with Cinema Jove;
a space to analyze the new patterns of audiovisual consumption at the hands of Movistar + with one of its series, or its, already referred to a seminar of criticism made in collaboration with Caimán Cuadernos de Cine.
The councilor of Employment, Tourism and Culture, Jesus Pacheco, explained that "the IBAFF festival, which has already established itself as one of the most important in Spain, not only expands the cultural offer of the city but also has a great tourist repercussion in the municipality since, besides the presence of directors, producers and actors, the city receives those days to dozens of moviegoers ".
As Official Section of its ninth edition, the International Film Festival of Murcia IBAFF has scheduled 13 feature films and 19 short films of filmmakers from cultural places as diverse as Afghanistan, France, Bulgaria, Germany, Argentina, Japan, Brazil, Iran, Finland, Greece or Bangladesh.
A collection of films with which to continue exploring a type of cinema that moves away from creative conventions in the search for forms of audiovisual expression that exceed and complement the cinematographic art.
The feature films that can be viewed are:
- 7 Pardeh (Inaugural Projection + Short Aliens).
Sepideh Farsi.
Afghanistan.
80 '.
Friday 2 March.
Room 1. 22.00h
- Southern Belle
Nicolas Peduzzi.
France.
84 '.
Sunday 4 March.
Room 1. 17.30h
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Ilian Metev.
Bulgaria.
82 '.
Sunday 4 March.
Room 1. 22.30h
- Let the summer never come again
Alexandre Koberidze
Germany.
202 '.
Monday 5 March.
Room 1. 17.30h
- A provincial city
Rodrigo Moreno.
Argentina.
88 '.
Monday 5 March.
Room 1. 22.30h
- Aka Jihadi (Also Known as Jihadi)
Eric Baudelaire
France.
99 '.
Tuesday 6 March.
Room 1. 17.30h
- Those who are fine
Cyril Schäublin.
Switzerland.
71 '.
Tuesday 6 March.
Room 1. 22.30h
- Mr. Liberto and the small pleasures
Ana Serret Ituarte.
Spain.
74 '.
Wednesday 7 March.
Room 1. 17.30h
- La nuit oú j'ai nagé
Damien Manivel, Kohei Igarashi.
France / Japan
79 '.
Wednesday 7 March.
Room 1. 22.30h
- Blue my mind
Lisa Brühlmann.
Switzerland.
97 '.
Thursday 8 March.
Room 1. 17.30h
- Sarah plays a werewolf
Katharina Wyss.
Germany.
86 '.
Thursday 8 March.
Room 1. 22.30h
- Baroness
Juliana Antunes
Brazil.
71 '.
Friday 9 March.
Room 1. 17.30h
- Drift
Helena Whittmann.
Germany.
98 '.
Friday 9 March.
Room 1. 22.30h
The selection of short films from IBAFF 9 includes works widely recognized at international festivals such as Aliens (Luis López Carrasco, 2017) that had its premiere in Locarno, or The landscape is empty and the emptiness is landscape (Carla Andrade, 2017) that has just go through the Rotterdam festival;
to projects such as El tercer paisaje and Galatée á l'infini, coming from that great quarry of filmmakers that the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
National authors of proven trajectory are mixed in the world of short films (Samuel M. Delgada and Helena Girón with Plus Ultra or Elena López Riera with Las visís) and in the feature film (Ángel Santos will present the piece dedicated to the painter Manuel Moldes, recently deceased), with filmmakers from Germany -Tobi Sauer and his Simba in New York- Iran (Kaveh Mazaheri with Retouch);
Greece (Christos Massas with Copa-Loca);
Finland (Jenni Kivistö with Äiti) or Bangladesh (Ashique Mostafa with Interiors & Exteriors).
HONORABLE PRIZE CYCLE: LUCRECIA MARTEL
The Honorary Prize Cycle will be dedicated this year to Lucrecia Martel, an Argentinean filmmaker (Salta, 1966) whose cinema has the capacity to turn the everyday into a mysterious one.
This way, different films by Martel will be offered, such as La ciénaga (Wednesday, March 7, Room 1, 8:00 pm);
The holy girl (Thursday, March 8, Room 1. 8 pm);
The blonde woman (Friday 9 March, Room 1. 8pm) and Zama (Saturday 10 March, Room 1. 8pm)
SHORT CYCLE: CINEMA JOVE PROGRAM
The Ibaff will also offer a short film series in collaboration with Cinema Jove, thanks to which Murcia will be able to watch JoveSubmarine (Mounia Akl. Líbano, 2016. 21 ');
Negative Space (Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata, France, 2017. 6 ');
Small town (Diogo Costa Amarante, Portugal, 2016. 19 ');
Miss Holocaust (Michalina Musielak, Poland, Germany, 2017. 22 ');
Pussy
(Renata Gasiorowska, Poland, 2016. 8 ') and Turtles are always home (Rawane Nassif, Qatar, Lebanon, Canada, 2016. 12')
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY SERIES WITH MOVISTAR +
IBAFF is committed to reflect on the new audiovisual consumption guidelines.
On this path, the festival will screen a marathon with Berto Romero's new series, "Mira lo que hecho", which will be the first to compete in the official section.
The audience of Murcia will be able to view the fiction directed by Carlos Therón, produced by Movistar + in collaboration with El Terrat, and starring Berto Romero and Eva Ugarte on Saturday, March 3, from 18 to 21.30
In addition, the six episodes of the series set in the Seville of the 16th century La Peste will be screened on Friday 2 March from 4 a.m. to 9 p.m.
IBAFF YOUNG
At the Murcia Film Festival there is also room for young people with a prize awarded by a jury composed of students from the institutes of the Region of Murcia.
The award is granted to one of the participating short films in the different sections of the festival.
The shorts viewed by the students will be: Sub Terrae, Plus Ultra, Äiti, Memory of the land, The man in the bushes and Interiors and Exteriors.
This project offers students the development of a critical aptitude and attitude forming people prepared to see and value the cinema, and by extension any other manifestation of the individual.
3rd SEMINAR OF INITIATION TO FILM CRITICISM
Coinciding with the 9th edition of the International Film Festival of Murcia, from March 5 to 9, the Film Criticism Seminar will be held, under the academic direction of Caimán Cuadernos de Cine.
The objective of the seminar is to offer an introduction to the theory, history and practice of film criticism, also offering professional guidance to students.
Free access is prior registration by sending an email with the information to seminario@ibaff.es, limited to 80 people
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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