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From November 16 to December 3
International Film Festival, a mirror of the best contemporary cinema
November 06, 2018A selection of films recognized in the most important festivals worldwide includes the 65th International Film Festival of the Cineteca Nacional, to be showed from November 16 to December 3.
Alejandro Pelayo, general director and Nelson Carro, director of Diffusion and Programming of the Cineteca Nacional, respectively, explained that this is a select film progamming from different nationalities.
They affirmed that the number of national attendees of the show fluctuates in 80,000 spectators. This figure changes from year to year depending on the public's interest in seeing certain movies. The one with the greatest success had 100,000 and the least successful 60,000 attendees.
In addition, for various reasons, the spaces in the metropolitan area have decreased from 18 to 19 theaters, while in the province have increased.
Last year's 64th International Film Festival, had in the province 42,125 attendees in 29 venues with 14 movies and 778 showings. The 63rd exhibition, in the interior of the Republic, had 37,000 spectators, with one less venue.
When making a general balance they said that the present year was "very good" and if the tendency is maintained it is expected to reach the figure of 1,300,000 spectators to the Cineteca Nacional.
Pelayo described his administration as "good, in terms of how the Cineteca has been consolidated, in attendance, in public, and in the interior of the Republic. We are talking about 30 almost permanent venues that are not only the exhibition, they take the forum, the seasons".
For his part, Carro said that in terms of programming, the offer has been ideal. As for Mexican cinema, 33% of the movies shown are Mexican. "It's a very high percentage. And curiously, in the last month or two months, half of the films we had daily were Mexican”.
This fact does not represent that "we are, in some way, subsidizing Mexican cinema. Those movies had very good attendance, competing smoothly with the rest of the films. Attendance and revenues were maintained”.
The 65th International Film Festival reaffirms its commitment to the moviegoers of Mexico City and the rest of the country, since the selection is not only a film showcase, but also represents part of the discourse and outlook of contemporary cinema.
A selection of 14 titles will be offered from: Denmark, Turkey, Switzerland, Poland, Italy, Argentina, China, Iran, Germany, United States, Colombia, Australia, Paraguay and Japan.
For 18 days, lovers of the seventh art will enjoy an excellent international selection, both in cinemas and in different venues in the metropolitan area. Later, in several cities in the interior of the country.
The exhibition will open with the showing of Lars von Trier's The House that Jack built (2018), where the lead actor (played by Matt Dillon) conceives his life as a serial killer as a piece of art. It is a sadistic essay on art, cinema and the director's own work.
The presence of Latin America is strong with Marcelo Martinessi's The Heirs (2017), a sensitive portrait of a couple of privileged women, now less fortunate, who touch on topics such as loneliness, desire and social classes.
Alanis (2017), Anahí Berneri's fifth feature film, presents, without prejudice and in a direct way, the wanderings of a sex server, who tries to move on with her son, despite having everything against her.
Pájaros de verano (2018), by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, touches a thousand-year-old community, the Wayúu, in the 1970s and 1980s, when their culture begins to be violated by capitalism as a result of drug trafficking.
Hirokazu Kore-eda is present with his feature film Shoplifters (2018), which won the Palme d'Or at the most recent Cannes Film Festival.
It shows the Shibata, who engage in furtive shoplifting and after one of them find a little girl they end up adopting. From here we will know their happiness in spite of poverty, but we will also discover some dark secrets.
Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman (2018) combines the most politicized side of the filmmaker with vintage and adventure cinema, based on the true story of an African-American policeman who manages to "join" a supremacist group.
With Looking for Ingmar Bergman (2018), Margarethe von Trotta returns to the screens of Cineteca. The movie is co-directed by Felix Moeller and is a tribute to the Swedish master's centenary, based on interviews with the people who worked close to him.
Jafar Panahi continues his exploration of contemporary Persian culture in Three faces (2018), in which, based on a trio of actresses from different generations, he gives an emotional review of the political and cultural changes in his country in recent decades.
Angels wear white (2017) by Vivian Qu presents the daily battle of women in a suffocating patriarchal and macho society, based on the story of a sexual aggression towards two students and the only witness who fears for her physical and labor integrity.
Sweet territory (2017), by Warwick Thornton, takes setting the Australia of the 1920s in a western cinema tone. From this he constructs a story about the consequences of colonization and the clash of the white community versus the aboriginal culture.
Hannah (2017), by director Andrea Pallaoro, shows a woman who loses her routine and even her identity when her husband goes to prison.
Charlotte Rampling won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her lead role.
Paweł Pawlikowski brings his Cold War (2018), a story of two characters who cannot live separately, but neither together, a musician and a singer, in the midst of the political effervescence of communist Poland.
Jean-Luc Godard is part of the selection with The Image Book (2018), with its left-wing political tone and philosophical spirit, the rebellious master of European cinema offers an experimental essay on his vision of today's world.
With this movie, the filmmaker won the Special Palme d'Or and the Grand Jury Prize at the recent Cannes Film Festival.
Finally, The wild pear tree (2018) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, represents the ideological conflict between a son and a father who do not get understanding or empathy, this from everyday life and the simplest situations.
For further information about the 65th International Exhibition please visit:
http://www.cinetecanacional.net/micrositios/muestra65/
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