Bueno, well yes. Although to you, lector, don't think so, A year has passed and here we are again with this Cinema Jove. Yes, cinema here, what if cinema over there, and so on up to eight long days of feature films, short, WebSeries, cycles, awards and special screenings. Total, an ordeal. What is going to be done! If we don't win "unfortunately". but hey, that everyone was like this.
The Official Section brings together up to ten feature films in competition that show the diversity of proposals, thematic and formal, that contemporary world cinema offers. The festival starts with Polish comedy Bad poems of Gábor Reisz, original approach to the details of love where the real is mixed with the imagined in a work that offers many decisive surprises. This tape will be followed, already in the competition selection, productions like the Brazilian one Domingo by Clara Linhart and Fellipe Barbosa, acidic approach to class differences in today's Brazil, China A first farewell de Wang Lina, beautiful story about childhood, Argentina family members by Mateo Bendesky, or the disturbing The last to see them by Sarah Summa, film based on the real case of the disappearance of a family that could well have been signed by a Haneke. Besides, the polish Light as feathers by Rosanne Pel will talk to us about power relations in the environment of adolescent couples, theme that is linked to the question of friendship in the old age of the Georgian Parade by Nino Zhavania, Israeli anti-militarism The dive the Yona Rozenkier, or the conflicts of a widowed father in the deep North America of Thunder Road de Jim Cummings, winning film at last year's South by Southwest Texas festival. Con House of Humming bird by Bora Kin, winner of the last edition of the Tribeca festival, we will get closer, finally, to South Korea to delve into a story about the conflicts of adolescence in the environment of the family unit, topic that shares, although from another point of view, the norwegian tape Harajuku where director Erik Svenson mixes live action with anime-style animation, to offer us a raw story about the feeling of abandonment and lack of identity in these hyperconnected societies.
In addition to the long, we find the Official Short Film Section con 49 pieces from all over the planet that reflect the variety of themes and genres, from the short fiction or the documentary, going through the animation, of this format. The shorts section includes productions from such varied countries as the USA, Canada, China, Argentina, France, Poland, Greece or Portugal. Among the selected titles, films such as I'm sorry, my love, last work of actor and director Eduardo Casanova, film director Skins, or the return to the short film by the Catalan director Carla Simón, author of the successful Summer 1993, who returns to participate in the festival with his work Afterwards too. Valencian production will be well represented in this section with the participation of pieces such as Snorkel by Borja Soler, Cuzco by Victor Sánchez, about the play of the same name, Crocodile by Jorge Yúdice, just premiered at the Berlin festival, I'm dying to return by Javier Marco Rico, the animation tape Miss Mbulu by Ben Fernandez, y Those who wish, Elena López Riera's latest work, without a doubt one of the most recognized Valencian names on the international scene, as demonstrated by the award obtained for this work at the last Locarno festival.
Besides, the Official Webseries Section will offer us up to 13 productions ranging from comedy, case of jobs like Switzerland BIP by Vincent Bossel, which tells the life of a supermarket cashier who dedicates herself to studying others, or the Americans America by Jonathan Avigdori, y Susan land de Andrew Olsen, passing through the sci-fi from series like the British The grade by Joseph Simmons. Our country will be represented in this section with the productions People talking, by Alvaro Carmona, Atresmedia production, y Burlesque barbiturate by Borja Segarra Bueno and Marta Romero, portrait of a masseuse from the Raval of Barcelona who does not hesitate to offer other services to her clients.
In another vein, In this edition of Cinema Jove the awards A future of cinema will fall to the actors Pol Manyen (Who would you take to a desert island??) y Nuria Herrero (The call). And attention!, because this year the Luna de Valencia Award will be, no more no less, that for the director Miguel Gomes, relevant figure of contemporary Portuguese and European cinema. Gomes has a very personal look that mixes customs, the political and the magical in titles like That dear month of August, Taboo and withunclassifiable trilogy Arabian Nights.
Four Special Cycles complete this year's programming. The first of them, within the section The young man…, It is dedicated to brothers Joel and Ethan Cohen and in it we can see from its debut in easy blood even hilarious The Big Lebowski, going through other classics like Arizona baby, Death among the flowers, Barton Fink, The big jump y Fargo. In the second cycle, anime gods, We will see up to ten works that serve as a sample of what is perhaps one of the richest industries in the world: japanese anime. We will see classics like The grave of the fireflies y The Tale of Princess Kaguya de Isao Takahata, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind y Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki, Akira de Katsuhiro Otomo, Ghost in the shell de Mamoru Oshii, jewelry like The Wolf Children de Mamoru Hosoda o A silent voice de Naoko Yamada, or oddities like Belladonna of sadness de Eiichi Yamamoto, y Night is short, walk on girl de Masaaki Yuasa. The cycleYouth & The Wall commemorates the 30 anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with several titles that review the life of youth during the years of isolation with films such as Goodbye Lenin de Wolfgang Becker, the documentary The invisible frame by Cynthia Beatt, o Never mind the wall by Connie Walter. Cinema Jove welcomes, besides, a second edition of the program Beats and frames what, like last year, explores the relationship between electronic music and cinema. On this occasion, offers us two works, Irvine Welsh’s Ectasy by Canadian Rob Heydon, film that immerses us in the world of dance music in cities like Edinburgh and Amsterdam, and the successful The kingdom by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, which tells us the secrets of corruption in Spain and whose soundtrack won this year's Goya.
Among the Special Screenings, This year we find at least three Valencian productions. We refer to The band by Roberto Bueso, that tells us about the return to his town of a young man who reunites with friends, family and their music band, Almost ghosts by Ana Ramón, film that brings together several stories about the mythical Route 66 in United States, o The assembly by Alex Montoya, which narrates the difficulties of an assembly to reach an agreement. The zoo by the Catalan Gemma Blasco mixes fiction and reality, cinema and theater, in the story of a group of actors who perform a play based on a reality show, while in Letters to Paul Morrsey, Armand Rovira writes a series of letters addressed to the famous director and collaborator of Andy Warhol, y Absence by Ramón Moreno will tell us about loneliness in the last stages of life.
But this contest is not just about cinema.. Cinema Jove also wants to be a meeting point for new and established creators, and this is demonstrated by its various proposals for round tables and parallel programs. Cinema Jove would not be Cinema Jove without its usual section of the Audiovisual Meeting of Young People, in which students from educational centers throughout Spain have the opportunity to present their pieces in short format in three categories by age, Infant and Primary, Secondary and Baccalaureate, and university students. Apart from the usual awards for technical departments, all of them will aspire to the WolterkKluwer Prize- Pedagogy Notebooks for teaching work, and the Special Award from the RTVE La2 television program, The adventure of knowledge.
Besides, the program Curtcreixent is nominated for another year as one of the meeting points for short film production in our country. Five years now of this proposal that brings together professionals from all fields of short film, like programming, audiovisual production or education. This year, Curtcreixent recovers the celebration of The shortest night with a special session in which we will enjoy some of the best short films in Spanish cinema that have been finalists for the Oscars in recent years. We will see: 7:35 in the morning by Nacho Vigalondo, Binta and the great idea by Javier Fresser, we were few by Borja Cobeaga, Timecode by Juanjo Gimenez and Madre by Rodrigo Sorogoyen.
If you have an audiovisual project and you don't know how to move it, without a doubt the day organized by the Association of Audiovisual Writers (EDAV) which is titled I have a project, and now what? will solve some of your doubts. Professionals from channels like TVE, On point, TV3, as well as private chains and producers with extensive experience will meet at this meeting. G.LEON
