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Carrusel de las Artes returns to Biarritz, in the French Basque country, for a week of Latin American cinema and literature. This year the Biarritz Latin America festival turns 31 years old and celebrates it by bringing together Brazilian films and films directed by women.
Like every year, the Biarritz Latin America festival celebrates Latin American cultures and cinema in a week. This year we saw a bunch of outstanding figures, such as the Chilean Sebastián Lelio, winner of the Oscar for ‘A Fantastic Woman’, the Venezuelan Lorenzo Vigas, awarded the Golden Bear in Venice for ‘From there’ and the great Cuban writer Leonardo Padura .
As is tradition, the festival presents three film competitions, in fiction, short films and documentaries. Ten films from various countries such as Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica or Nicaragua, compete for the Embrace, the award for best film.
“In the case of Costa Rica and Nicaragua, they are first or second works, of young talents”, highlights Jean-Christophe Berjon, general delegate of the Biarritz Festival. “Furthermore, in the competition, six of the ten filmmakers featured are women, with strong views on women,” he adds.
Carrusel de las Artes went to meet one of them, Costa Rican Valentina Maurel, who is presenting ‘I have electric dreams’, a film that narrates Eva’s effusive relationship with her father, an unpredictable and violent man, from whom she has inherited a rage that consumes it.
Focus Brazil
The Biarritz Latin America Festival celebrates in style the culture and cinema of Brazil in the framework of the bicentennial of its independence and crucial presidential elections.
The public will discover a selection of films, chosen by one of the most outstanding filmmakers of the moment, Kleber Mendonça Filho.
“An incredible proposal of varied cinematographies. Kleber himself said that a very incomplete family album was proposed by Brazilian cinema, it is so extensive that it cannot be presented in just 14 films,” explains Nadia Solano, festival programming coordinator.
The most memorable movies of recent years
Biarritz has a loyal public that signs up every year. We wanted to know which films have been liked the most in these 31 years of the festival.
The Colombian ‘The Embrace of the Serpent’, by Ciro Guerra, ‘Wild Tales’, by the Argentinian Damián Szifron or the Mexican ‘The Perfect Dictatorship’, by Luis Estrada, have marked the regulars of the festival.
This year, ‘Regreso a Ítaca’, Laurent Cantet’s adaptation of Leonardo Padura’s work, has a special flavour. The Cuban writer is one of the guests of honor at the 2022 edition of the festival.
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