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FICCMOTECA is born, a new initiative fruit of the collaboration between the Department of Culture of the City of Cartagena, the Film Commission of Cartagena and the FICC.
FICCMOTECA intends to gather the witness of the legendary Cine Club Hannibal, a collective that filled our city with good cinema for many years and that made it possible for cinema fans to enjoy movies that did not reach the commercial halls of Cartagena.
In this line of work, and with the same illusion, FICCMOTECA, which will project free films in original version subtitled in Spanish in the Hall of Events of the Cultural Center Ramón Alonso Luzzy.
For this first session, which will take place on June 2, two films will be screened: 'Incendies', selected by Cine Club Hannibal, and 'Neruda', selected by FICCMOTECA.
JUNE 2ND
'Incendies' (Canada, 2010).
18:00 hours Speaking of 'Incendies' is talking about the film that made all eyes turn to Denis Villeneuve, consecrated today as one of the great directors of the international scene.
It is no coincidence that this Canadian filmmaker has made excellent films in the last years (Enemy, Prisioners, Sicario or Arrival) that has been nominated in the Oscars, that is doing the remake of Blade Runner, or that has in front the remake of another Cult film: Dune.
'Incendies' tells the story of Jeanne and Simon Marwan, two twins living in Canada whose mother Nawal has just passed away.
In the act of opening the will, the notary gives them two letters that must be given to a father whom they believed to be dead and to a brother whose existence they did not know.
Jeanne decides then to embark on a trip to Lebanon to try to locate them and find answers to its existence, but Simon does not want to know anything of the subject.
Based on the work of the same title by Wajdi Mouawad, she was nominated for Best Non-English Film in 2010.
After the screening of 'Incendies', at 8:15 pm, there will be a small act of homage to the Cine Club Hannibal for the magnificent work done over so many years, a brief ceremony that will feature the intervention of the Festival director Of Cinema de Cartagena, Esther Baeza, FICC Vice-President Sergio Matínez, who will gloss over what Cine Club Hannibal meant for Cartagena, a representative of the Cine Club team, and the Councilor for Culture, David Martínez, who will close the speeches .
Then the film 'Neruda' will be screened.
'Neruda' (Chile, 2016).
20:45 hours 'Neruda' is the work of Pablo Larraín, one of the most original directors of the moment.
With his own style, and after filming films like 'Fuga', 'Tony Manero', 'Post Mortem', 'No' and 'The Club', and before making his debut in Hollywood with 'Jackie', the talented Chilean director filmed this Biopic around the figure of the poet.
The film begins in the year 1948, at which time Neruda accuses the Chilean government of betraying the communists in the congress.
President González Videla deflects him and orders his capture.
The poet undertakes the flight of the country with his wife.
While being persecuted by the prefect of the police, Neruda begins to write 'General song' and becomes symbol of the freedom and literary legend.
The film was nominated for Best Non-English Film at the Golden Globes in 2016.
JUNE 23
'The future' (France, 2016).
20:00 hours Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve and starring Isabelle Huppert, narrates the changes that occur in the life of Nathalie, a philosophy teacher who will have to reinvent her life from one day to the next.
Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for Best Direction, Isabelle Huppert won the Best Actress Award at the Critics' Circle in New York and Los Angeles.
JULY 7TH
'Bar Bahar' (Israel, 2016).
20:00 hours 'Bar Bahar' tells the story of three young Palestinians with an Israeli passport who choose to live a life of freedom in Tel Aviv, far from their places of origin.
Directed by Maysaloun Hamoud, it reflects the reality of women who pay a high price to conquer a parcel of freedom in which they can be themselves.
Awarded at the San Sebastian Festival with the TVE Otra Mirada Award, the Youth Prize and the Sebastiane Prize.
All the films are in original version subtitled in Spanish.
Admission is free until capacity is reached.
Since there are many people who have gone to the Department of Culture asking for the resumption of this activity, which is now concrete in the new FICCMOTECA, The organizers seek to recover a space in the cinematographic programming for quality cinema that does not reach The commercial halls of the city, cinema that has a high value as a film culture, and whose niche has been uncovered since the disappearance in the summer of 2011 of the Cinema Club Hannibal.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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