By Mónica Delgado
This film, which is part of the Forum Expanded section of the Berlin International Film Festival, caught my attention due to requests for the withdrawal of the film in the program and the censorship of political activists on social networks, calling it pure propaganda about a war, with claims against the justification of ethnocides, ethnic cleansing and fascism.
By Mónica Delgado
Greek filmmaker Jacqueline Lentzou marks her feature debut with Moon, 66 Questions. As in her previous short films, especially in Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year (2018) or The End of Suffering (2020), here we have a young protagonist solving everyday issues, and her problems, with a touch of fable. In this first work, Lentzou also resorts to a strange and dreamlike atmosphere, or to that “Greek touch” in some moments with the direction of actors and actresses, moving between the histrionic and stylized, a style filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari patented in her works about women.
by Rodrigo Garay
IFFR’s competitions took place during the first part, online. In the Big Screen Competition was Aurora, Paz Fábrega’s new feature film. Eleven years ago, Fábrega was the first Costa Rican filmmaker to win IFFR’s Tiger Competition, with her first feature: Cold Water of the Sea. Aurora has a familiar vibe, but the social dynamics between its main characters, a teacher named Luisa and a pregnant teenager named Yuliana, seem ahead of their time.
By Mónica Delgado
Presented in the International Competition of Rotterdam Film Festival, where it received a special mention from the jury, Looking for Venera is a classic coming of age film, with all the necessary components for this genre to work: a repressive home, the castrating father, a submissive mother, a hostile social environment, sexual awakening, an oscillating friendship and an apparently not very expressive character who later finds his place in the world.
By Mónica Delgado
Films such as earthearthearth by Japanese filmmaker Daïchi Saïto cry out for a return to the cinema screen. Not only because these are experiences that require a dark room, but also because perhaps festivals, galleries or some performance, with their presence, made these projections acts of communion.
By Mónica Delgado
After the highlights of the first days of the festival journey, the first slumps appeared. Here is a review of four feature films from Brazil, India, Lebanon and France seen in the online edition of the Rotterdam Festival.
By Mónica Delgado
Aurora, a film that installs another common sense, or rather puts it to the test, with expressive choices that allow an opposite point of view for discussion.
By Mónica Delgado
Breaking the pigeonhole of women who make films about women provides an opportunity for a diversity of stories, from plots, arguments, from this gender perspective. Three proposals presented in the online edition of the Rotterdam Festival allow exploring expressive options as results of formal searches, arranged to achieve a sensitive effect from female characters (transporting the myth of Lilith to a cinematographic idea or converting the cast into a form of struggle against disappearance or the ephemeral).
By Mónica Delgado
The Rotterdam International Film Festival joins the new normal demanded by the context of the pandemic and has been developing its 50th edition online. This festival, based in the Netherlands, has been characterized over the last few years as a space for the exhibition and discussion of a more risky cinema, with an independent profile and young filmmakers, who participate with first works above all.
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
The 22nd edition of Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux in Paris has reunited some of the most intriguing and interesting experimental works around the globe (55 films from 33 countries). This online program allowed us to watch the latest works of major names in cinema like Roger Deutsch, Jacques Perconte, Patrick Bokanowski, and others.
Director: Mónica Delgado Ch.
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