19 films from 20 nationalities are screened under a philosophy of travel, freedom and creation
Murcia’s Ibn Arabi Film Festival (IBAFF) enters its competitive phase with the screening of the official portion of its twelfth edition; the delivery of the corresponding prizes; a new local audiovisual section featuring Panorama IBAFF Murcia; more proposals from the IBAFF Children’s Panorama; the invasion of the street with the municipality of Panorama Ibaff; and the focus on cinema as a vehicle for social work with a larger IBAFF Solidarity Panorama than ever.
In addition, it maintains its alliance with ‘OCULTO TV’, the audiovisual platform of the Murcia City Council, to showcase the region’s talent with a very special session, as municipal sources report in a statement.
In addition, for this edition, the festival maintains the ‘Panorama IBAFF Joven’ section, which offers students and teachers from institutions in the Murcia region the opportunity to actively participate in the festival through cinematographic training, watching short films and failure of a prize itself.
The Mayor of Culture, Pedro García Rex, emphasized “the remarkable increase in registrations”, with 701 films, 300 more than in the last episode. An edition, Rex recalls, “which started as early as March, with a progression in the training mode under the ‘Panorama’ brand, with seminars and workshops and in which the main emphasis was placed on the role of women in cinema, with the figure was recognized from Margarita Lozano, as well as the work of Murcian filmmakers».
The official section contemplates the projection of 19 films of 20 nationalities under a traveling philosophy of freedom and creation, the IBAFF once again offers audiences the opportunity to experience other ways of understanding cinema. The programming consists of proposals that are difficult to access in conventional commercial circuits that would otherwise not be seen in the city of Murcia.
Finally, the official section for Feature Film 2022 consists of 10 titles that offer a small representation of different points of view on the contemporary human experience.
Road films that show much less than they say and that move along the bends of Kiarostami’s cinema roads (Hit the Road, by Iran’s Panah Panahi.93′); directors legitimized by the voices of women who sing an almost 110-year-old An Elephant on a Spider’s Web (by the Spanish Rolando Díaz.78′); sensory experiences that subvert ideologies and scream at religious extremes and the oppression of women (Medusa, by Brazilian director Anita Rocha da Silveira. 127′).
As for the short films selected, two programs have been prepared with the 9 selected works, of which four premieres in Spain and three absolute premieres; two by Murcian Paolo Natale (Day in the Snow, Paolo Natale. Spain. 10′) and Alfonso Riera (Landless Farmer. 15′), and one by Peruvian filmmaker and artist Lucía Flórez (Shirampari, River Heritage, 15′).
For example, with the planned films, the IBAFF audience accompanies a young Colombian who becomes a home delivery person in Sweden to the rhythm of punk (Pink Rider, by Daniel Aguirre, Spain and Sweden. 11′); he will participate in simple but necessary gestures (Flowers Bloom in Our Throats, by Eva Giolo. Belgium and Italy. 9′); or you can take part in the humble and magical work of a stoneworker (Bancal, by Rafael Montezuma. Spain. 29′).
He will also confront a depiction of violence through a child’s play (The Wolf Children, Otávio Almeida. Brazil, Cuba. 18′), the avatar of director Suzannah Mirghani in Virtual Voice, and a reminder of the life it came and went in We love life (Hana Vojackova. UK. 7′).
During the opening session of IBAFF XII, taking place this Friday, June 17 at 8:00 PM at the Regional Film Library, a double session will be screened with two short films that are part of the IBAFF Murcia Panorama section: The Interpreter of desires, by Esther Ruiz (40′), and Sleeping Dreams (22′), by Ramón González Palazón.
The Official Jury – made up of experts from different facets of industry, education and the media – will award two prizes from the films competing in the Official Section: Best Feature Film, endowed with €10,000, and Best Short Film , with € 6,000.
The professional juries for this edition are Cloe Masotta Lijtmaer – Doctor of Communications from Pompeu Fabra University and member of the Catalan Association of Film Writing and Criticism -, Andreu Adam Rubiralta – Graduate in Cinema and Film Photography from ESCAC and Director of photography of Projects such as La Peste: la mano de la Garduña, by Alberto Rodríguez for Movistar, Veneno, by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, or La novia gitana, by Paco Cabezas- and Miguel Zozaya Fernández -Doctor in Film Theory, Analysis and Documentation by the University of the Basque Country and member of the selection committee of the Punto de Vista Festival since 2018-.
For its part, the Murcian actress Eva Llorach – Goya for Revelation Actress, Didac Palou Mayordomo – film editor among many other projects of Estiu 1993 (2017) by Carla Simón, graduate in Telecommunications Engineering at the ETSETB of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and member of the Catalan Film Academy and Raúl Liarte Conesa from Cartagena – screenwriter and assistant director of The Year of Discovery (2020), cinematographer, teacher and programmer, teacher of creative writing and film script in the Master of Screenwriting at the Carlos III University of Madrid- will be responsible for judging the award for Best Short Film in the Official Section.
An Audience Award is selected for both categories from the same films. A prize resulting from the average decision (50%) between the vote of the People’s Jury and the vote of the public present at the festival (50%).
A prize resulting from the average decision (50%) between the vote of the People’s Jury and the vote of the public present at the festival (50%). The Young IBAFF Award is also awarded -voted by students from institutes in the region-; the Arrebato Award -which recognizes the trajectory, the evolution and the firm interest in discovering new audiovisual experiences for the public-; and the prize.
Source: La Verdad
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