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The writer, actor and playwright Jean Claude Carrière, Honorary Award this year during these days will be organized the First International Film School The Second Symposium on the figure of Ibn Arabi will feature master of video art, Bill Viola

The fourth edition of the International Film Festival of Murcia IBAFF (Ibn Arabi Film Festival) will be held from 4 to 9 March 2013 and comes loaded with new features, making this a must for lovers of cinema in Murcia.

During the event, presented the poster IBAFF fourth edition, which is inspired by a work of photographer Juan de la Cruz Murcia to travel up the idea and creation, key principles of the contest.

IBAFF spaces.

In line identify IBAFF increasingly closer to the city and its people more independent cinema quality, the festival moves to the inner city.

Thus, the Romea Theatre becomes landmark, hosting IBAFF office, among other activities.

Also the Circus Theatre, the Regional Film Archive Francisco Rabal, Real Casino de Murcia and Caja Mediterráneo are configured as IBAFF new headquarters of the city center.

The Gates Center Castilla, promoter of the festival, gives up its role, but still expect some of the sections of the festival.

In this edition, the festival's official selection, comprising a total of 30 films selected from over 300 entrants from 50 countries around the world, will be screened in full on Regional Film Archive, and is divided into four categories: feature film and documentary, awarded 3,000 and 2,000 euros respectively, and short fiction and documentary, with a prize of 1,000 each.

IBAFF Young Award, awarded by a jury consisting of students from secondary schools in the region to one of the short films (fiction or documentary), the Audience Award and Abbas Kiarostami Film Seminar, presented by the Iranian filmmaker, are other IBAFF award from 2013.

The list is completed with IBAFF Honorary Award, the highest award that recognizes the careers of filmmakers who embody the ideals of the festival (Travel and Creation) and in 2010, the year of birth of IBAFF, was awarded to Iranian director Majid Majidi followed by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro in 2011 and Abbas Kiarostami in 2012.

The Honorary Award 2013 will receive IBAFF filmmaker, screenwriter, playwright and actor Jean-Claude Carrière, one of the leading exponents of French surrealism, and great collaborator of Luis Buñuel.

The writers also "The Tin Drum" (1979), "The Return of Martin Guerre" (1982), "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (1988), "Valmont" (1989), "Cyrano de Bergerac" (1990 ), "The Horseman on the Roof" (1995), "Goya's Ghosts" (1996), among others.

Carrière received the Order of Arts and Letters of the Spanish Government in July 2011.

Activities IBAFF 2013: The Abbas Kiarostami Film Seminar, First International School of Film and Filmmakers Meeting

Under the International Film festival IBAFF Murcia, will develop different activities.

One of them is led by director and poet Abbas Kiarostami, who will give a new film course for 50 students from around the world.

Another popular activity responds to this edition IBAFF bet.

Since the last edition was included Film School section, which this year again reinforced the organization's First International Film School, a forum for exchange of ideas and experiences among students from Europe, Asia and America to bring, besides to Murcia projections of the most representative of each of the invited schools: International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba), the School of Cinema and Audiovisual de Catalunya (ESCAC) School National Film, Televison and Leon Schiller Theatre, Lodz (Poland), the Art School of Porto (Portugal) and the University of Art and Design, Department of Film, Geneva (Switzerland).

The First International Film School, to be held at Caja Mediterráneo on 7, 8 and 9 March, is coordinated by Dominican filmmaker who was director of the Cuba Film School in 2007, Tanya Valette.

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Out of competition'll find sections like Film School, this time with a screening of titles of schools participating in the First International Film School: School of Cuba, the School of Cinema and Audiovisual de Catalunya ( ESCAC), Lodz School, Porto School and School of Geneva, the Honorary Award Retrospective this year, offering a selection in which he participated Jean-Claude Carrière, and Section Off, which will collect a selection of titles that have not entered into the main competition but have special importance for their worth thematic or stylistic.

Next to them, new ones arise: Filmmakers, which this year will bring together works by Jaime Rosales, Pedro Costa and Abbas Kiarostami, directors invited by the IBAFF 2013 Panorama Murcia, Murcia dedicated to filmmakers and production jobs Murcia; Selection IBAFF where pruning public enjoy titles that give character to the festival, among which we find this year's "Like Someone in Love", Abbas Kiarostami latest film, not yet released in our country.

The last section that joins the International Film Festival of Murcia is called IBAFF Recovers, which thus offer the audience the opportunity to discover unpublished documents on the cinematic memory to the current situation to combat widespread neglect of Spanish cinema and internationally.

Rediscovering the time beyond that evoke images through film hits, but also encourage proposing another fresh look on those tapes that are a common thread to explore the heritage of the cinematic memory.

Bill Viola at the Second Symposium Ibn Arabi

One of the characteristic activities IBAFF what constitutes the Symposium held by Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society in Spain (MIAS - Spain) and coordinated by Paul Beneito.

For the second time and choose Murcia under IBAFF to celebrate this international meeting on the figure of the Sufi mystic born in Murcia in the twelfth century in order to promote this great author studies Murcia universal scope and impact on the various arts and fields knowledge.

The Second International Symposium Ibn Arabi of Murcia, to be held in the Royal Casino of Murcia on 8 and 9 March 2013, will be entitled at this time "Symbol and creative imagination."

Within this meeting, be granted Awards Ibn Arabi: Tarjuman Award for dedication to the study, editing, dissemination and translation of the works of Ibn Arabi, which this year falls on the prestigious Lebanese researcher Souad Hakim, and Barzakh Award for creative trajectory or artwork inspired by the mystical Sufi thought, which in 2013 was awarded the globally celebrated master Bill Viola's video art.

Both winners will attend the IBAFF and participate in the symposium with Jaume Flaquer, Jane Carroll, Jane Clark, Ana Crespo and Jose Manuel Puerta Vilchez.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia