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With November comes the festival The Cabin dedicated to the medium-length format; as you know: movies that are between thirty and sixty minutes long. Three sections. In the Official Section or fiction we find twelve pieces from various countries. The opening day begins with the documentary The super 8 years, written by the Nobel Prize in Literature 2022 Annie Ernaux on all fours with her son David Ernaux. In it, share filmed recordings between 1972 y 1981 and addresses different stages of his life within the social context of the moment, French May case, Pinochet's Chile or the Soviet Union. Although they are not all who will be, we highlight pieces like the Spanish one ropes, by Estíbaliz Urresola, selected at Cannes Critics' Week; the french The virtuous by Stephanie Halfon, awards from France Télévisions and Unifrance, which tells the vision of women by the Hasidic community of Paris; The Spanish When the pure forms sank by Alfredo Picazo, better first work at the Montreal Festival, or the Oscar nominee The dress by Polish Tadeusz Lysiak, about a woman with achondroplasia who fights against social rejection. Among the topics addressed in other works are the debate on sexual consent (Untouched sweetness of summer by Saskia Welsh), the second wave of feminism (The limits of vision by Laura Harrison), mental health (Save it by Amira Duynhouwer), y, as an exception, the existentialist comedy about zombies Ordinary family de la china Funing Tang.
The section Amalgam follows in the footsteps of previous editions, offering the best of documentary and experimental cinema in medium format. to each piece, your theme. So, Spinsters will address the stigma suffered by women who do not marry in Spain (?), neurodiversity through a fraternal relationship of The birdman and the robot, isolation in the pandemic of jobs like My quarantine bear y Close to you, or an approach to George Orwell's novel, 1984, case of Character. The conflicts of the LGTBI community will be reflected in two works: Silent voice, which chronicles the persecution of homosexuals in Chechnya, and the marginality of these groups in rural Mexico in life is a carnival. Stand out, besides, Makedonium by Macedonian director Teona Mitevska, y There in Paris,documentary by Valencians Alba Crespo and Antonio Barquero about the spread of flamenco in France during the seventies and eighties through the story of producer Miguel Vallecillo Mata, who worked with Camarón de la Isla, Enrique Morente and Aurora Vargas. Finally, the section Unpublished offers works in medium format by great directors in the history of cinema. This year we will see works by Rita Acevedo Gomes, South Korean Hong-Sang Soo, François Ozon, the German Angela Schanelec and George Cukor. G.LEON
