Movies. The Filmoteca will screen the films from the seven cycles of the festival, with titles dedicated to the two great actresses
After two years of absence caused by the pandemic, the IBAFF returns this Friday, March 4 under the Panorama IBAFF brand. The Murcia International Film Festival will open the programming from March 4 to 12, and the Official Section is reserved for June 17 to 24, when it will jump from the cinemas to every corner of the municipality. Panorama IBAFF will approach the pairing of cinema and women from multiple angles. The festival will pay tribute to the filmography of the actress from Lorca, Margarita Lozano, who recently disappeared. She worked with Luis Buñuel, Sergio Leone, Pasolini, Nanni Moretti or the Taviani, and she will receive a posthumous Arrebato Award. In addition, five of her best films will be screened. The first of them will be ‘Pocilga’ (‘Porcile’, 1969) by Pasolini, which can be seen on Saturday, March 5 at 8:00 p.m. On Sunday, at 6:45 p.m., ‘Manicomio’ (1954) will be screened, a film by Fernándo Fernán Gómez and Luis María Delgado that reflects the change of roles between patients and doctors in a psychiatric hospital. On Monday 7, at 6:30 p.m. it will be the turn of ‘Viridiana’ (1961), the famous and controversial film by Luis Buñuel for which the director won the most important award at the Cannes Festival. On Tuesday the 8th at the same time as the previous one, ‘For a Fistful of Dollars’ (1964) by Sergio Leone, a classic in the ‘western’ genre, will be offered.
Margarita Lozano worked with Luis Buñuel, Sergio Leone, Pasolini, Nanni Moretti or the Taviani, and will receive a posthumous Arrebato Award. In the image, she in ‘Viridiana’, by Luis Buñuel.
Panorama IBAFF will review the work of Agnès Varda with a cycle of ten films in their remastered version that summarize her essence. This cycle will start on Sunday, March 6 at 5:00 p.m. with the screening of ‘La pointe courte’ (1955). On Monday 7, ‘Happiness’ (‘Le bonheur’, 1965) and ‘Jane B. por Agnès V’ (1988) will be screened at 5:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., respectively. On Tuesday the 8th, at 5:00 p.m., ‘Una sings, the other doesn’t’ (‘L’une chante, l’autre pas’, 1977) will be shown and on Wednesday the 9th, at the same time, ‘Daguerreotypes’ (‘ Daguerréotypes’, 1976) and ‘Jacquot de Nantes’ (1991) will be screened at 8:30 p.m. On Thursday the 10th there will also be a double session dedicated to the French filmmaker, with ‘Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans’ (1933), at 5:00 p.m. and ‘One Hundred and One Nights’ (‘Les cent et une nuits’ 1995), at 8:30 p.m. The cycle says goodbye on Friday, March 11 with ‘Kunfu-Master’ (1988), at 5:30 p.m. and ‘Agnès beaches’ (‘Les Plages d’Agnès’, 2008), at 8:30 p.m.
Panorama IBAFF will review the work of Agnès Varda with a cycle of ten films in their remastered version that summarize her essence. In the image, ‘Happiness’, from 1965.
The Murcian festival will also focus on the work of filmmakers to be reckoned with, films from which the pandemic stole space and time. You can enjoy 15 works, both fiction and documentary, all directed by women except ‘Women Make Film’, a documentary by historian Mark Cousins that is an analysis of the history of cinema through the lens of some of the best female directors of the world that will be shown in a single continuous projection of 14 hours.
The IBAFF Panorama this March will also include the Seminar for Initiation to Film Criticism directed by the prestigious magazine Caimán Cuadernos de Cine; a workshop to reflect on the relationship between literature and television; and two children’s workshops: one on experimental cinema and the other on sound.
The Murcia Film Festival recovers face-to-face attendance and faces its most didactic edition
In addition, the IBAFF maintains its alliance with OCULTO TV, the audiovisual platform of the Murcia City Council, to continue giving visibility to local talent with the organization of two very special sessions. One with nine short films by artists from the Region, most of them premieres and the result of the Cultural Reagents program, and another with the best video clips hosted on OCULTO TV throughout this year of the project’s life.
‘Women Make Film’, a documentary by historian Mark Cousins that is an analysis of the history of cinema through the lens of some of the best female directors in the world.
recover the illusion
The Councilor for Culture, Pedro García Rex, yesterday presented the twelfth edition of IBAFF at the Murcia Regional Film Library and explained that the expansion, under the Panorama brand, is an initiative of the Department of Culture of the Murcia City Council, framed in the 2030 Agenda , which aims to promote and recognize Murcian theaters as cultural spaces. “With Panorama IBAFF we want to recover the enthusiasm for cinema, for our festivals and for the big events in Murcia, since this city is a regional benchmark in terms of cultural events during every month of the year,” said the councilor, who He was accompanied in the presentation by the Secretary General of the Ministry of the Presidency, Juan Antonio Lorca, and the director of the Regional Film Library, Ángel Cruz. García Rex also announced that the festival will be a snapshot of the reality of the audiovisual sector, focused this time on training and the role of women in cinema.
The general secretary of the Ministry of the Presidency, Tourism, Culture and Sports, Juan Antonio Lorca, highlighted “the prominence of female talent in this cultural event and the high participation of spectators in the festival, responding to the plurality of citizens , to its involvement in cultural life and transparency in the processes, since the spectators have been able to collaborate in the initiatives promoted by Volunteering, Popular Jury, IBAFF Joven and IBAFF Solidario».
In these last eleven years, the IBAFF has received around 34,000 spectators. All the information about the programming and its associated events can be consulted and followed through the web https://www.ibaff.com/