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The FICC46 has been launched this Friday, November 10 with its official presentation to the media at the Palace of Cartagena.
The delegated councilor of Culture, Education and Equality of the City of Cartagena, David Martínez Noguera, the Minister of Transparency, Participation and Spokesperson of the Region of Murcia, Noelia Arroyo Hernández, the President of the FICC, Ignacio Ros Pérez, and the director of the FICC , Esther Baeza Navarro, have shelled the programming of the forty-sixth edition of the Cartagena International Film Festival.
One more year, the FICC has the official sponsorships of the City of Cartagena, which has been betting on the festival since its birth, and Gas Natural Fenosa.
A festival that "does not stop generating new projects, full of expectations, which treasures a great cinematographic history and is already part of the culture of Cartagena," said Martínez Noguera, who announced that this year the Consistory has increased the allocation for this festival at 65,000 euros, and that is intended to continue to increase.
"It is the most important film festival in the Region," said the councilor, which is why initiatives such as the FICCmoteca have been created to keep the festival alive all year round, and municipal spaces such as the Ramón Cultural Center are ceded Alonso Luzzy, where four of the festival's parallel sections will be held.
The counselor also wanted to highlight that position of the film festival as the first of the Region for its "seniority, quality and excellence."
It also has the collaboration of sponsors who continue to support it year after year (Estrella de Levante, MT Helmets, Easycoffee, Cajamurcia, TKROM, Kundaka and Lhicarsa) and of those that are incorporated in this edition, such as FIAT, La Manga Rent a Car and Ilboc, a company based in our city that has sponsored the Korean Film Festival.
The Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia also lends its sponsorship through the ICA (Institute of Cultural Industries and the Arts).
The FICC46 will take place from November 26 to December 2, and more than 80 films will be screened between long and short films.
PARALLEL ACTIVITIES FICC46
Within the parallel activities, it is planned to hold the Children's Workshop "Filmmakers for a day" and the experimental 8/16 mm Super Workshop, in addition to a Birraseries where we will talk about Spanish series, two concerts in the streets of Cartagena, one in charge of Lucky Lips and High Tension and another one of soundtracks interpreted by the Sauces Group, the V Days of Cinema and Civilization, the Day of the Domestic Cinema, in which will recover homemade films rolled in Super 8 and 16 mm, and the II Day of Cine Amateur, which will revolve around amateur films shot in Cartagena by amateur filmmaker Juan Peñalver.
PROJECTIONS FICC46
Starting the week proper of the festival, there are many screenings scheduled in different sections: Feature Films, Short Films Official Section, Murcine, Animated Story, the John Ford cycle for Amateur Youth and the Korean Film Festival.
PARALLEL SECTIONS
At the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center, from Monday 27 November to Friday 1 December, four sections will be screened: Europa.doc, Cineistas, John Ford Cycle and Murcine.
In Europa.doc, dedicated to European documentaries, we will be able to see the documentaries "Human Flow", "Lumière! The adventure begins", "Faces and places", "The last adventure of the Gandul" and "The Swedish theory of love".
In Cineistas, the FICC section dedicated to independent Spanish cinema and alternative trends, we will project "Selfie", "Summer 1993", "Love objects" and "Blue blood analysis".
In the mornings, ESO and Bachillerato students will attend the John Ford Cycle, an activity that, although aimed at teenagers, is open to anyone who wants to attend.
Murcine's short films will be screened before the feature films of Europa.doc and Cineistas, and there will also be a special session on Thursday, December 30 at the El Batel Auditorium, where they will be screened in a joint session.
On the other hand, in the Culture Classroom of the Caja Mediterráneo Foundation, the Korean Film Festival will take place: Cartagena looks at Seoul, a cycle dedicated to the most relevant recent Korean cinema that shows the great variety of records of this cinematography, and that covers from genre films to the most intimate proposals of auteur cinema.
The president of the Festival has highlighted the repercussion that this section will have at a national level given the great selection of films that have been made, among which there will be even premieres in our country.
All these screenings are free
FEATURE FILMS
In the New Circus Theater, in addition to the Animated Story section, aimed at primary schools, the feature films of the FICC46 will be screened.
The opening will be on November 26 at 8:00 pm at the Nuevo Teatro Circo, with the film "THE PARTY", an acid black comedy directed by Sally Potter with an exceptional cast, including Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz , Emily Mortimer, Cillian Murphy and Kristin Scott Thomas.
From that moment, and until December 1, at the Nuevo Teatro Circo we will be able to see the best cinema, both nationally and internationally:
A film that is an absolute premiere in Spain: "DEDE", Best Film at the Karlovy Vary festival, the most prestigious festival in Central and Eastern Europe.
The latest works of great directors: "THE WORKSHOP OF WRITING", by Laurent Cantet, "LOVER FOR A DAY", by Philippe Garrel, or "HAPPY END", by Michael Haneke
A disturbing and powerful thriller, Special Jury Prize and Best Screenplay at the last Sitges Festival, "THELMA", by Joachim Trier.
Two films that speak to us about aspects of the Arab reality in a very different way, "EL INSULTO" and "INSYRIATED".
A very tough film that deals with a very common drama in our society: "SHARED CUSTODY", Best Director and Best First Film at the Venice Film Festival, and another film that also deals with a subject as hard as AIDS at the beginning of the 90: "120 PRIZES PER MINUTE", Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Two Spanish films already premiered, but that have not reached our billboard: "HANDIA", from the same team that made "LOREAK", and "DIE", with some heartbreaking interpretations of Marian Álvarez and Andrés Gertrudix.
More Spanish cinema, with "MANY CHILDREN, A MONKEY AND A CASTLE", a delicious documentary directed by the actor Gustavo Salmerón, who has won the Best Documentary at the Karlovy Vary Festival.
We will also have the presence of teams from two films: "MIGAS DE PAN", a film that represented Uruguay at the Oscars and is inspired by the story of Liliana Pereira, an express policy of the last dictatorship of Uruguay, and "JÚLIA IST ", a work by a very young Spanish director and actress, Elena Martín, about a student who is going to Berlin from Erasmus and will try to build a new life there.
Elena Martín will attend the presentation of her film.
To finish the projections in the New Theater Circus, "NICO, 1988", which tells the last years of this muse of Warhol and singer of The Velvet Underground.
Tickets for the Nuevo Teatro Circo's lengths are on sale at the ticket offices of the Nuevo Teatro Circo and the El Batel Auditorium, and are also available online.
Its price is three euros per film, but you can also buy a subscription of 8 films for 20 euros.
CLOSING
The closing will take place on December 2 at 8:30 pm at the El Batel Auditorium, where the awards of the Official Short Films Section, Murcine, Young Jury, AFICTIONED Young Short films and the FICC / Gas Natural Fenosa Award will be presented to the actor. murcian Carlos Santos.
At the end, we will close the FICC46 with "C'EST LA VIE", a French comedy that has become one of the highest grossing films in France, and which is in charge of the same directors of "INTOCABLE".
Tickets for the closing gala are on sale online and at the ticket offices of the Nuevo Teatro Circo and El Batel at 7, 5 and 3 euros.
All the programming about the Cartagena International Film Festival can be found at www.ficc.es.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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