FESTIVALS France / Latin America
Everything ready to go for the start of the 26th Cinélatino festival
- Toulouse is hosting the best of Latin American cinema in an edition that is dedicating an exclusive programme to productions managed by firms from the region. Sections include Cinema in Development and Films in Progress
20 March marks the kick-off of the ten-day Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse event. As in previous years, the 26th edition of this Latin American film festival will boast competitions for feature films, short films and documentaries that have not been released in France, as well as a series of Panorama sections that will bring together the best of Latin American film productions – productions that Europe, and particularly France, is maintaining ever-closer ties with. Evidence of this can be seen in the fact that organisations from the Old World are co-producers on five out of the 14 films that are competing for the prizes that will be awarded by the jury. Sitting on the panel are filmmakers Sebastián Lelio, Celina Murga and Marité Ugás.
This year’s programme is set to be even richer than usual, thanks to the Femmes de Cinéma (Women in Cinema) Exhibition, which will present 35 films, both recent and not so recent, for the French audience – with all of these projects led by Latin American directors and producers.
In parallel with the competition, this year professionals from both sides of the Atlantic will once again meet up for the Cinema in Development and Films in Progress initiatives. A total of 21 film projects in search of production backing will take part in the former on 26 March, while the latter, taking place on 27-28 March, will host the presentation of a selection (made in collaboration with the Cannes Cinéfondation and Cinélatino’s new partners, Mexico-based Morelia Lab and Brazilian organisation Br Lab) of six artistic teams that are hoping to raise the final tranche of backing in order to finish their films. Interestingly, this year Marcela Said will be returning to Toulouse with a new project. She was the winner of the last edition of Films in Progress, which also featured the film that ended up winning the Golden Shell at the last San Sebastián International Film Festival, Bad Hair [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Mariana Rondón
film profile].
(Translated from Spanish)
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