By Mónica Delgado
With jury and Best Director awards in the recent Pingyao Film Festival, this debut film by Chinese filmmaker Liang Ming arrives at Rotterdam in the Bright Future section. This is a film that allows us to put in value this work of neon and industrial climates in a country halted in peripheries and suburbs which are dependent of a strict work life.
by Gojko Dimic
This year’s IFFR is the birthplace of many great international films which are full of excitement and cinematic explorations of world’s topics. One of those films “Merry Christmas, Yiwu” by the Serbian director Mladen Kova?evi?, had its world premiere in the Bright Future Main Programme.
By Jessica McGoff
A river runs through Ana Vaz’s latest work in the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Ammodo Tiger Short Competition. Apiyemiyekî? was commissioned as part of a project designed to act as a space of reflection on the Brazilian military dictatorship that spanned 1964-1985.
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
Three films come to mind from the last 20 years when talking about the teenage coming-of-age genre. From Andrea Arnold’s magnificent Fish Talk (2009), To Larry Clark’s The Smell of Us (2014), all the way across the ocean with Raúl Perrone’s masterpiece P3ND3JO5 (2013), there seemed to be a shared sensibility from their authors, an intention to dwell deeply into the soul of their protagonists: classless, outsider young men and women living in a rarefied atmosphere, in an opposite margin.
By Mónica Delgado
Pingyao faces yet another year of growth, and the last one where they receive municipal and national subventions. But despite the possible elimination of this support, the festival has made a name for itself in China as a space for encounter and for visibility of the work from new generations (…)
By Mónica Delgado
We rescue two texts of the winners from the last Pingyao International Film Festival: the Roberto Rosselini award has been given to Maya Da-Rin A Febre, and the Best Director award has been given to César Díaz for Nuestras Madres.
Por Mónica Delgado
In conversation with Desistfilm, the artistic director of Pingyao International Film Festival, Marco Müller, remarked that one objective of the event is to approach Latin American cinema to an audience that knows little about what’s happening in the region.
By Mónica Delgado
From some time now, filmmaker’s masterclass in festivals have become new age conferences for the ones interested in making movies, especially young people, a sort of DIY, mixed with certain spiritual pedagogy and entrepreneur culture, which is becoming patent in the testimonies and stories of filmmakers who seek to leave evidence of their profession.
By Dennis Vetter
Dimensions play a role, the idea to let individuals be absorbed by a massive cinematic experience. Peculiar statements are made, and this is a quality: a character like Pedro Costa returns to the festival after four years, with his film Vitalina Varela, to be awarded again, this time with the main prize.
By Amanda Barbour
It’s not particularly wise (or useful) to dislocate any art from the social, political and historical climate that gave rise to it. While this article is a report on the 10th edition of the Anibar International Animation Festival, it takes place in Europe’s youngest democracy which requires some context. The partially recognized nation state of Kosovo has a complicated origin story.
Director: Mónica Delgado Ch.
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