Kaori Oda presents her new film, GAMA, in FICUNAM, Mexico, in June.
Synopsis: A storyteller of peace serves as a guide in the “Gama”—natural caves where many local people lost their lives during the Battle of Okinawa. The woman in blue standing by his side represents the intersection of the present and the past.
https://ficunam.unam.mx/pelicula/gama/
Stefan Malešević will be one of the three members of the jury that awards the CICAE Arthouse Cinema prize in the Forum section of this year's edition of Berlinale.
CICAE (International Confederation of Art Cinemas) is the first international association of its kind: founded in 1955, today it represents 4,400 screens in 45 countries in Europe, Latin America, USA and Africa. Its mission is to promote quality motion pictures on wide screens and to advocate for cultural diversity.
De Balie cultural center in Amsterdam, where Stefan is the Head of Cinema, is a member of the CICAE network.
Congratulations Pilar and Team on their festival prize for Las Niñas!
Pilar Palomero | 2020 | España
PRODUCCIÓNInicia Films, Bteam Pictures, Las Niñas Majicas A.I.E
DURACIÓN100 minutos
GUIONPilar Palomero
FOTOGRAFÍADaniela Cajías
MÚSICACarlos Naya
Sofi Escudé
Andrea Fandos, Natalia de Molina, Zoe Arnao, Julia Sierra, Francesca Piñón
Bteam Pictures
Film Factory
info@iniciafilms.com
Celia, una niña de once años, estudia en un colegio de monjas en Zaragoza y vive con su madre. Brisa, una nueva compañera, recién llegada de Barcelona, la empuja hacia una nueva etapa en su vida: la adolescencia. En este viaje, en la España de la Expo y de las Olimpiadas del año 92, Celia descubre que la vida está hecha de muchas verdades y algunas mentiras.
Kaori’s Oda’s intriguing documentary set in Mexico has been selected to screen in the Bright Future Main Programme.
Synopsis:
In Northern Yucatan, Mexico, natural sinkholes called 'cenotes' constituted the sole water source for Mayans not living near a river or lake. Some cenotes were used for ritual sacrifices, and the Mayans believed that these holy springs connected this world to the afterlife.
The past and present of those living around the cenotes coalesce in this mysterious place. Long-lost memories echo in hallucinatory turquoise underwater footage, an entrancing game of light and dark. Swimming in these sinkholes, director Oda Kaori encounters intriguing shapes and beams of light, the water heaves, drops fall like razor blades.
Oda, who studied under Béla Tarr in Sarajevo, previously made Aragane, which was shot in a Bosnian coal mine. For Cenote, she used Super-8 film and a bubbling water soundscape. A captivating form for her impressions of a place where, as a ghostly voiceover explains, nothing is forgotten.
Link to Film Listing in Rotterdam: https://iffr.com/en/2020/films/cenote
Emma Rozanski’s video installation ‘A New Kind of Ray’ has been invited to be part of AT THE FRINGE film screenings 2019 - a festival of Experimental Films and Video Poems
When/Where: TRANÅS, SWEDEN
INTERNATIONAL 2
Monday, 1st July - 18:00h
Wednesday, 3rd July - 11:00h
www.facebook.com/events/622884411564507/
Festival Dates: 29 June – 4 Jul
Website: https://www.atthefringe.org/film
About:
ENG / For eight days in July, practitioners from Sweden and other countries working with different disciplines (visual art, literature, dance and film) will meet and conduct around 70 events. The festival is a free-entrance event, held once-a-year and it is now at its sixth edition!
SWE / Under åtta dagar i juli kommer utövare från Sverige och andra länder från olika discipliner inom konst, litteratur, dans och film att träffas och genomföra runt 70 evenemang. Festivalen är årligt återkommande och den sjätte!
Follow the festival events here:
(in Swedish)
The Chaotic Life of Nada Kadić (Writer/Director Marta Hernaiz Pidal) has won the Jury Prize at the @Festival International de Films de Femmes, one of the oldest and most important festivals for women filmmakers!
Here were the comments from the jury:
« Comme des chasseurs d’éclairs, on attend un moment où l’on peut se retrouver à contempler le spectacle que peut nous donner à voir une tornade, à se passionner pour des objets pris à l’intérieur, se dire qu’on ne les avait jamais vus comme ce...
" like lightning hunters, we're waiting for a moment where we can find ourselves to contemplate the show that can give us to see a tornado, to is for objects taken inside, to say that we've never seen them Like this before. This is what we offer the chaotic life of nada kadic, by a whole singular look... " - Fiction Jury
Congratulations Marta and the team!
Pilar Palomero's film, The Night of all things, will we playing in the following festivals (in march and april):
Lucca Film Festival (Italy)
Philosophical Film Festival (Macedonia)
부산국제단편영화제 Busan International Short Film Festival (Corea)
Euregion Shorts (Netherlands)
watch the trailer: