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At the gates of summer and vacations comes the most anticipated movie event of the year. CinemaJove releases new edition, thirty-seven, with a program rich in proposals. We begin this chronicle by reviewing the films that participate in the Official Feature Film Section.
Official Feature Film Section
From Türkiye it comes to us Geranium, first work by director Cagil Bocut, winner of the best actress awards, debut and photography at the Istanbul Film Festival and in which, starting from a personal experience, Defne introduces us, a nineteen-year-old girl who returns to her hometown to take care of her father after suffering a heart attack. Defne faces a clash between generations, between tradition and new ways of addressing issues such as death, especially when she finds out that her aunt, with whom they live, suffers from a terminal illness. class differences, Family are other issues that are resolved in this beautiful story in which Defne will discover that, in life, the truth is not always so clear. Death and reunion are some of the themes that the Lithuanian film shares Feature film about life, director's debut Dovilė Šarutyt, in which another woman in her thirties, Dovile, He returns to his town to attend to his father's funeral.. But, How do you say goodbye to the one you feel so close to?? Šarutyt mixes home videos with conventional fiction to establish the emotional relationships between characters in a story in which its protagonist will understand that a farewell can also be a celebration.
The processes of transition to adulthood and sexuality are two of the topics it addresses. The Tana, first work of the Italian Beatrice Baldacci. Giulio is a young man who spends his summer vacations with his family in a beautiful rural area.. Here meet Lia, a mysterious girl he is attracted to. Giulio lets himself be seduced by the games of attraction and rejection to which she subjects him., but this capricious attitude, almost suicidal, de Lia, contains an inner drama. Baldacci links physical and emotional landscape in a film that won the Hollywood Foreign Press Association award at the last Venice Film Festival.. From Cannes Critics' Week we get Rehana, by Bangladeshi director Abdullah Mohammad Saad, that proposes a deeply topical topic. Rehana is an assistant professor at a teaching hospital. One day, discovers a case of sexual harassment of a student by another tutor. After reporting the matter, Rehana confronts the university hierarchy and a good part of the student body. But Rehana won't give up.. On the way, will question her intentions and her position as a woman within society. This tape has some similarities with Happiness by Kazakh filmmaker Askar Uzabayev, Audience Award from the Panorama section of the last Berlin Festival. The film plays in two planes, symbolic and material. Happiness introduces us, So, a woman who sells cosmetics. In his presentations, sells with a smile the beauty that its products provide as a symbol of happiness. But that happiness does not exist for her, subjected to the whim of an alcoholic husband who mistreats her. This is the reality to which, denuncia Uzabayev, many of the women in their country are forced and it is passed from generation to generation.
From Japan we get the tape Small, slow but steady by the director Shō Miyake in which we will meet Keiko, a young woman with hearing problems who works as a cleaner in a hotel. But his true passion is boxing., reason that leads her to join a modest neighborhood gym run by old Katsumi, retired boxer. Keiko is a withdrawn woman with many complexes., but his talent and the confidence that Katsumi gives him will change his way of being.. Keiko's successes in the ring lead her to aim for new professional horizons. But, more than success, For her, what is important is the love of those who have supported her.. And from Japan we traveled to the Golan Heights with the Palestinian director Ameer Fakher Eldin. In The stranger, Fakher Eldin proposes a review of Albert Camus's novel in which he introduces us to Adnan, a middle-aged man who has returned to his village. Adnan's love of drinking, lack of work, cause rejection from family and neighbors. But this indifference with which Adnan conducts himself in hidden life, in the background, a deep pain for his country. With a powerful photograph, Fakher Eldin portrays the mist that covers the landscape of people whose lives are in the shadow of war. One day, Adnan finds a badly injured Syrian soldier and, against everyone's opinion, decides to help him. At the bottom, the sound of bombs is heard.
Official Short Film Section
Along with the long, The Official Short Film Section offers us the best of the world panorama with 57 works among which are works such as Trap by Anastasia Veber, short film winner of the Golden Bear at the last Berlinale, The parent’s room by Diego Marcon, selected at Cannes Critics' Week; In flow of words, best documentary at Clermont-Ferrand and direction award at Locarno; or the Spanish Property, by Julia de Paz, director of Or, which tells of the meeting of a girl with her father in a family center due to a sentence of gender violence. Other notable pieces are The water murmurs by China's Story Chen, selected in Cannes 2022, Catcave hysteria by the Swedish Angelika Abramovitch and Strawberry cheesecake de Siyou Tan, both presented in Clermont-Ferrand and Locarno, Love on the horizon by Claire Sichez, animated short film selected at the Annecy festival, o Glorious revolution by the Ukrainian Masha Novikova, short film fresh from the Cinefondacion at the Cannes festival. Based on the director's own experiences, The film shows the loss of a mother whose son is murdered while protesting in Independence Square.
Webseries and other cycles
Besides, The Official Section of Webseries brings us closer to the world of fiction on the internet with works such as the Canadian I am not a robot by director Mélanie Charbonneau, drama starring a social media content moderator who gets involved in the case of a kitten killer. Other pieces in the competition will be the Belgian Hacked the Laura van Haecke, winner of the last edition of the Canneséries 2022, or Argentina children's things de Mariano Pozzi, series that addresses, from the perspective of the protagonists themselves, the conflicts of adolescence. Among the cycles that CinemaJove has prepared this year we find one dedicated to movement mumblecore, emerged in the mid-nineties in the United States in the heat of festivals such as Sundance and South by Southwest. Independent cinema, low budget that would narrate the concerns of this generation. The list of directors related to this movement includes names such as brothers Benny and Josh Safdie, Lynn Shelton, Mark y Jay Duplass, Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach, Kelly Reichardt, Aaron Katz, Joe Swanberg, Ry Russo-Young, Kevin Smith y Andrew Bujalski, whose first work Funny Ha Ha It is considered the founding title of the subgenre. The section The Young… this year it is dedicated to the director Agnès Varda. Besides, We find cycles dedicated to anime and a selection of films that commemorate the selection of Valencia as World Design Capital 2022. G.LEON
