‘Papi’, ‘La Fiera y la Fiesta’ or ‘Malpaso’ are some of the works that will be on display from 4 to 13 July
La Mar de Músicas de Cartagena will begin its parallel activities with La Mar de Cine this Monday, July 4. In total, the program includes the screening of seven films, all from the Dominican Republic, the country to which this 27th edition of the festival is dedicated.
The billboard was presented this Wednesday in City Hall by the Councilor for Culture, David Martínez Noguera, along with Nacho Ros, president of the Cartagena International Film Festival (FICC). The event is responsible for the programming, which it has developed together with the Directorate-General for Culture of the Dominican Republic.
As explained by Martínez Noguera, the cycle takes place for two weeks in the old patio of the CIM, the current headquarters of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena. They all have free entry with free access to full capacity. The screenings start at 10 p.m. The first four are from July 4 to 7, while the other three are from Monday, July 11 to Wednesday, July 13.
“Among them, the last of the films stands out, ‘Papi’, which will close the cycle on July 13. Noelia Quintero’s feature film has the soundtrack of Rita Indiana, a cultural agitator in the Dominican Republic for her social activism, as a flag of the LGBTQ+ community,” the councilor explained. It should be noted that Rita Indiana is also one of the protagonists is from the musical and literary sections of the festival, as she has scheduled a meeting with readers on Thursday, July 21 at 11:30 am in El Batel and will offer a concert on Friday, July 22 at the Arab Castle. “She is one of the most original and dazzling current Dominican storytellers, whose writing has emphasized her unusual, provocative and free power,” emphasized Martínez Noguera.
The program is completed by six more films that, in the words of the FICC president, “fresco the most exciting Dominican production of the past five years, confirming its formal audacity.” For example, Nacho Ros emphasized the use of black and white in Malpaso (Wednesday, July 6), to reinforce the idea of racial conflict, in a story of two twin brothers, one born with black skin and the other albino.
He also spoke of the echoes of an avant-garde theatrical set design that borders on the visual performance in La Fiera y la Fiesta (Tuesday 12 July), with an immeasurable Geraldine Chaplin. Or the magical realism that resounds in unison in Liborio (Monday, July 4), where the story of a guerrilla healer captures the breath of the true golden age of the novel in Spanish, the 20th. The director of this film, Nino Martínez Sosa, will present his film for the screening and share his vision with the audience. It is his first feature film, which premiered at the Tiger Competition in Rotterdam.
In addition, the FICC president explained that “this selection of films puts the social and cultural reality of the Dominican Republic in front of an uneasy mirror, as is the case with Candela (Tuesday, July 5), where an impressive choir portrait shows us the lights and shadows of Santo Domingo, an elite class society confronts an uprooted clumsy class, and exposes problems such as homophobia».
Nacho Ros also broke Miriam miente (Monday, July 11), “a film that ironically shows us racial conflict not as a matter of skin color, but of economic position due to injustice and class difference”. The shadow of a century of imperialist yoke over South America will also hang over these films: as in Hotel Coppelia. This feature film is a vivid story that tells through the prism of several prostitutes the arrival of American troops to support the dictator Trujillo.
Source: La Verdad
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