We say November and, if we talk about cinema, We can't stop thinking about The Cabin, our festival dedicated to medium films, You know, those movies that last between 30 y 60 minutes and that, edition after edition, has shown its wealth both in formats, genres, as in formal proposals. This year The cabin offers us a program full of new features. The first is found in the Official Competition Section itself in which, unlike on other occasions, We will have sixteen pieces that will be screened in individual sessions (and not in pairs, like until now). The idea, comments the organization, is to highlight each of the works that, in this way, They will be presented independently to the public in four daily sessions. Here we will find familiar faces, like Damien Bonnard's, Collaborating actor with directors such as Christopher Nolan or Roman Polanski who stars Cross by Idir Serghine, o Valeriu Andriuta, collaborator of Cristian Mungiu and director from the Moldavian film Salix the goat. The demands of the LGTBI world are reflected in pieces such as Pink pill de la china Xiaoshan Xie, a gripping story about a real case of abuse. and controversial topics, like the one reflected by the North American Amy Wang in Unnatural where the issue of pedophilia is addressed in the figure of a young man 18 years trying to escape from his past.
The animation is represented in two films: This magnificent cake! by Marc James Roels and Emma de Swaef, that takes us in five stories to colonial Africa at the end of the 19th century, y The man woman case, by Anaïs Caura, about the story of Eugene/Eugenia Falleni, one of the first transgender people in contemporary history. Among other curiosities we find pieces such as the German action musical Hard way by Daniel Vogelmann who, between music and dance numbers, tells us Jake's story, a special agent who wants to avenge the death of his partner murdered at the hands of a terrorist called The Mother. And an old acquaintance from La Cabina, the director Lander Camarero (A serious comedy), who visits us with the hilarious Our old man and the sea, in which two brothers take a long sailing trip to spread their father's ashes in the Pacific.
There is much more. The section Amalgam will bring us works open to other alternative languages such as documentary, experimental cine or video art. The themes and origins are very varied.. It is the case, For example, of tapes like Mine stinks, collective work that tells us about the situation of the Gordon mining basin, in the province of León, o Vostok no 20 by Elisabeth Silveiro, which tells us about life in a third class carriage on the Trans-Siberian train that bears the same name. The memory of the Iraq war comes to us through the Iraqi bomb disposal unit that stars Facing death with wirecutte de Sarwar Abdullah, while in Converse director David Arratibel questions his relationship with religion when he discovers that his entire family has converted to Catholicism. The also Spanish [M]otherhood by Inés Peris and Laura García raises the question of women who reject motherhood as a vital option, while the German Philip Widmann wonders, in The frame about the relationship between modern man and technology.
The programming continues with two classic sections of the festival: Unpublished, which includes medium-length films by established directors, y Visuals in which the image is mixed with live music in various performances. And two new things. The first will host a new section dedicated to video poetry, a growing trend. On Friday 16/11 the documentary will be screened Versograms, directed by Belén Montero. A special session is added to this project, on Wednesday 21/11, in which a sample of works from the DOCMA de Alcances documentary film festival will be shown, which has already celebrated half a century of life. The medium films will be screened Galatea to the infinite by Julia Maura, Mariangela Pluchino, Ambra Reijnen, Maria Chatzi and Fatima Flores; y Michael of Ekhiñe Etxeberria, both winners of the DOCMA Award. G.LEON
