By Desistfilm staff
The Buenos Aires Film Festival (BAFICI) 2017 is over, and the Desistfilm staff has some words of closure that we’ve taken for this balance of one of the most important film festivals in Latin America.
By Desistfilm
Days five and six and the festival is near its ending. Among some amazing retrospectives and restored versions of old masterpieces, here are some reviews of the films we’ve seen these days
by Desistfilm
Days two and three in Buenos Aires were pretty intense. We’re still a little hangover from watching so many films, but here are the reviews for days three and four.
By Desistfilm
The new edition of Buenos Aires Film Festival (BAFICI), one of the most important film festivals around the world, started a couple of days ago, and Desistfilm landed in Argentina to cover this magnificent celebration of cinema.
By Claudia Siefen
At the Diagonale, as in any other venue, I encountered these two camps again: those who consider themselves artists with the clear expectation to be subsidized for it and make films, and those who treat the business as an everyday job. But despite of that I managed to find few works that I’m really happy with, which made their way to cinemas. And galleries.
by Tara Judah
Courtisane, as a festival, far more than most, creates its fiction with all the skill and care that curation ought. The films are selected – not for their timeliness or premiere status, but for their ability to engage and provoke curiosity – and are shown in the hope of sharing something as simple yet powerful as “notes on cinema”. The notes, with all the hallmarks of great fiction, are quite simply an invitation to inquiry.
By Nicolás Carrasco
“In 2011, theater director Juliano Mer-Khamis was murdered in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin, in front of his young daughter and her nanny. Julian was the entrepreneur behind the Freedom Theater, which was an association that taught theater to Palestinian kids and teenagers”.
By Aldo Padilla
The shot opening the film is a recording where Vincent Carrelli struggles to understand the hybrid dialect used by the indigenous people, which is an excellent resource understood as a way of starting a path. Almost at the end, the same shot is repeated, but now with a proper translation, which indicates that through the recording process an evolution has been reached, a connection with the indigenous people which doesn’t feel alien anymore.
By Ivonne Sheen
Susana de Sousa’s Luz Obscura (Obscure Light) is a sensitive essay about memory and time through the juxtaposition of images (archive photos) from the political dissidents and audios of their children’s memories. These testimonies of former Portuguese communists’ children that were imprisoned by the PIDE (Portuguese police) during the years of the Antonio de Oliveira’s regime are now voices of aching adults whose memories we listen to.
By Morella Moret
Ejercicios de Memoria tells us from a particular case, the story of many families during the Paraguayan dictatorship: the thousands of missing people that haven’t yet been found and the many death ones without a name. Finally, it doesn’t only narrate the story of a country but of many similar regimes whose memories have been forgotten.
Director: Mónica Delgado Ch.
ISSN 2311-7451
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