After last year's abbreviated edition, forced by the incidence of Covid-19, Cinema Jove returns with all its arsenal. In the Official Feature Film Section, we will see ten titles. The selection starts with The whaler boy, first work by the Russian Philipp Yuryev about illegal immigration and the situation of a small community that lives between Siberia and the USA., selected at the last Venice Film Festival. This will be followed by titles such as The first death of Joana of the Brazilian Christiane Oliveira, who questions gender roles in their country, A brighter tomorrow, debut of the French-Moroccan director Yassine Qnia that casts a hard look at the margins of French society, All the little pretty horses by Michalis Constantatos, harsh portrait of the Greek upper-middle class in the best wake of a Michael Haneke, o The penultimate del danés Jonas Kærup Hjort que, in the line of the cinema of the Swede Roy Andersson, immerses us in a Kafkaesque universe, acidic and critical reflection of contemporary society. Friends and strangers by the Australian James Vaughan proposes a Rohmerian exercise to delve into the void of personal relationships in our society, while Brother’s keeper by the Turkish Ferit Karahan, Fipresci award in the Panorama section of the last Berlinale, tells us about the repression of the Kurdish population and the power games in Türkiye through the eyes of the children of a boarding school. They continue Looking for Venera de Norika Sefa, that builds a harsh drama about the position of women in Kosovo society, Stop Zemlia de la ucraniana Kateryna Gornostay, y Ecstasy of the Brazilian Moara Passoni, a mixture of fiction and documentary genre that, in a dreamlike tone, explores the corners of the anorexia problem.
In the short films section we will see up to 59 pieces among which we highlight some titles such as Phoenix 93 by Alice Goudon, starring Denis Lavant (Holy Motors), Being my mom de Jasmine Trinca with Alba Rohrwacher (Happy Lazarus), Peasant Homily by Alice Rohrwacher, Loba totem by the actress Verónica Echegui, I am afraid to forget your face of Sameh Alaa, Cannes Palme d'Or 2020, Sisters the Katarina Resek (International Grand Prix in Clermont-Ferrand 2021) o Gramercy, by Pat Heywood and Jamil McGinnis, Labo Section Grand Prize in Clermont-Ferrand 2021. As usual, We will have the web series section with eight projects with titles ranging from sci-fi post-pandemic of Heat, The Spanish Backstage, about the problems of a director who wants to be an actress, the animated series Douniai, a review of the Reagan era with The communist’s daugther, the also spanish Valid by Nacho P. Pardo, Guns & level ups about the world of video games, and the Argentines Cross y 1 of those days. Among the cycles we find the second part of the anime gods, with jobs like love is in the water de Masaaki Yuasa, The girl who jumped through time de Mamoru Hosoda, The boy and the beast de Mamoru Hosoda o time with you de Makoto Shinkai, among other.
In this edition, The cycle The young man… will be dedicated Jean-Luc Godard, with his first films until he was forty. We will see from At the end of the getaway (1960) until Two or three things I know about her (1967). A is the program, two more cycles join. The first of them is titled High School, dedicated to movies that have the school as the center of their stories. We will see films as diverse as Elephant Sant's Gus, Goodbye boys of Louis Malle, Girlhood by Céline Sciamma, Move of the 76 de Richard Linklater, High school de Frederick Weisman, and the animation film My entire institute sinking into the sea de Dash Shaw, premiere in our country. Finally, Cinema Jove offers us a series that wants to celebrate the assignment of Valencia as the capital of design with several films such as Making it the Anthony Moorman, The proposal de Jill Magid o The man who designed Spain by Andrea G. Bermejo and Miguel Larraya on the figure of the designer José María Cruz Novillo, author of a good part of the logos of institutions and brands that we see in our country, case of the original logo of the Post Office or newspapers such as the world. G.LEON
