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ROTTERDAM 2018: HOMOGENEOUS, EMPTY TIME BY THUNSKA PANSITTIVORAKUL Y HARIT SRIKHAO

By Aldo Padilla

Homogeneous, Empty Time talks about the empty time when the King dies and the military junta seems to take the control of a country with a massive population that moves between oriental capitalism, the radical Buddhist tradition and the mix of religions that inhabit the country. Pansittivorakul and Srikhao dose the film with touches of humor, a way of lightening a little bit a situation that is not always denounced in such an explicit way, with a language so far away from being condescending

2018.01.30

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ROTTERDAM 2018: A TIGER IN WINTER BY LEE KWANGKUK AND LA PELÍCULA INFINITA BY LEANDRO LISTORTI

By Aldo Padilla

If in its own way, every work of art has its degree of infinity, the case of Listorti’s film drives us to value unfinished projects that are kept away and grow old without anyone knowing. Not only incomplete projects, but scenes shot but were kept in some drawer, cut by the able hands of the editor, improvised dialogues that weren’t taken into account.

2018.01.28

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55° GIJON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – PART III

By David S. Blanco One of the best films of the day was Bruno Dumont’s anti-musical Jeannette, l’enfance de Jeanne d’Arc. In this film, the

2017.11.28

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55° GIJON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – PART II

By David S. Blanco

The first film of the day was the Argelian Until the Birds Return, a competitor of last Canne’s Un Certain Regard. The fifth film by filmmaker Karim Moussaoui is a cryptic place of stories related to each other, without apparent connection, with open places for excursions and exits on the drama genre.

2017.11.21

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55° GIJON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – PART I

David S. Blanco -comissioned by Desistfilm, sends us his first impressions of the latest Gijon Film Festival.

2017.11.19

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VALDIVIA INTERNACIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2017: THE WINNERS

By Mónica Delgado & Aldo Padilla

FICValdivia has just ended, and here at Desistfilm, we offer you an extensive review of the winners of one of the best Latin American Film Festivals around. This year, we were witness of a variety of quality international and Chilean productions, films that had been touring different film festivals and other new ones recently released specially for Valdivia. This, alongside an excellent experimental showcase and a series of magnificent restorations, gave FICValdivia the status of an outstanding film festival, arguably the best of Latin America right now.

2017.10.22

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NORDISK PANORAMA FILM FESTIVAL 2017: PART II

By Mónica Delgado

One of the best things about Nordisk Panorama Film Festival is that it gives access to works from Nordic and Scandinavian countries, especially from places like Iceland, whose visibility in film spaces is scarce. For this 2017, their selection of short films picks up works that have previously received some recognition in other international film festivals, also giving some space to young new directors, which are motivated to work in collaboration.

2017.10.01

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NORDISK PANORAMA FILM FESTIVAL 2017: PART I

By José Sarmiento-Hinojosa

Taking place between 21-26 September in Malmö, Sweden, the Nordisk Panorama Film Festival presents over 100 films, documentary and short-films (experimental, animation, fiction), in a diverse programming which showcases works from Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway and Iceland, giving a great opportunity for different latitudes to dive in and measure the pulse of Nordic cinema. In Desistfilm, as we do, we focused in the experimental side of the festival, getting to know the new voices in expanded cinema for that part of the world.

2017.09.26

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TIFF 2017: WAVELENGHTS. LA LIBERTAD BY LAURA HUERTAS MILLÁN

By Mónica Delgado

In the first minutes of La Libertad, a group of women is observed from fragmentation. Their faces are barely shown and their physiognomies are out of field, shown from their main actions of survival: cooking, knitting, kneading. But during the passing of minutes, Colombian filmmaker Laura Huertas Millán, influenced by the statements of the Sensory Ethnographic Lab, proposes an articulation of a feminine clan in the rural zones of Mexico, with the tradition of handicraft and the urgent resistance and economical independence of women.

2017.09.19

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TIFF 2017: WAVELENGTHS. DISLOCATION BLUES BY SKY HOPINKA & ONWARD LOSSLESS FOLLOWS BY MICHAEL ROBINSON

by Nicolás Carrasco

In the opposite pole of originality, we find the latest appropriation work by Michael Robinson. Onward Lossless Follows proposes, through the re-montage of images of different sources, and the dubbing of their original dialogues, a completely new narrative.

2017.09.19