FROM FRIDAY 6 TO SATURDAY 14/5
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Sixth edition of this contest dedicated to the documentary format, which this year focuses on the term “real”, as an expression of the author's vision as a vehicle for the transformation of societies. The screening program opens with An elephant on a spider's web in which the Cuban director Rolando Díaz reflects on the end of life in this first-person work. This tape will be followed by the usual sections. In the section Panorama, dedicated to national production, we will see titles like The Kaiser of Atlantis by Sebastian Alfie, Erasmus in Gaza de Chiara Avesani and Matteo Delbò, The lost letters. The prison and exile of republican women by Amparo Climent, y Tolyatti Adrift by director Laura Sisteró. In the international section Global Award, we will see the Oscar nominee Ascension de Jessica Kingdon, Distance letters, Grand Jury Prize for Best International Documentary at the Sundance Festival, by Juan Carlos Rulfo (son of Juan Rulfo), Not going quietly de Nicholas Bruckman, Zinder from nigeriana Aïcha Macky, y Patti Smith. Electric Poet, by Anne Cutaia and Sophie Peyrard, about the legendary rock star. In the section Looks, dedicated to Valencian production, We will see jailer, the man who died twice by Ricardo Macías, Posidonia by Adán Aliaga from Alicante, Fusilates by Manuel Rossell and Lucas Moro, Goal in Cabanyal! by David Coronado Verdeguer, We enter. The process of creating Death and the Maiden by Pepe Andreu and Rafa Molés, y The active city of Sergio Sanus and Verónica Orrico. Besides, The festival will feature a retrospective and a photography exhibition about the Lithuanian director Jonas Mekas. G.LEON
