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LAS PALMAS 2022

95 films to be screened at the 21st Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Festival

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- The 57 films in competition are joined by retrospectives, including one dedicated to Lucile Hadzihalilovic, who is a member of the official jury of the event, which runs from 22 April-1 May

95 films to be screened at the 21st Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Festival
Pilgrims by Laurynas Bareisa

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival, directed by Luis Miranda, is now in its 21st year. The festival will take place between 22 April and 1 May, and it will open, celebrating the unique experience of going to the cinema, with the special screening, accompanied by live music, of a film that this year turns one hundred years old: Nosferatu, by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. This classic is part of a selection of silent films that, with different ensembles, make up the Camera Obscura section, together with Nanook of the North, by Robert Flaherty, a film that also turns one hundred years old, and The Passion of Joan of Arc, by Carl Theodor Dreyer, released in 1928.

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The Canary Islands festival is also dedicating a cycle to the French director, screenwriter and producer, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, a member of the jury in the official section. This retrospective means the public will be able to discover Evolution [+see also:
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 (France/Belgium/Spain), Special Jury Prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival in 2015; De Natura (Romania/France); Earwig [+see also:
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(UK/France/Belgium), Special Jury Prize San Sebastian 2021; Innocence (France/UK/Belgium); La Bouche de Jean-Pierre, a medium-length film from 1996, and the short Nectar (2014).

Ten feature films (and twelve short films, listed on the festival’s website) make up the official section: Nuclear Family (USA), a road movie about the couple Erin and Travis Wilkerson; Pilgrims [+see also:
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(Lithuania), a drama about grief by Laurynas Bareisa; Shared Resources (USA), a docudrama by Jordan Lord; Memoryland [+see also:
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(Vietnam/Germany), stories about death by Kim Quy Bui; The Line [+see also:
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(France/Switzerland/Belgium), a family conflict narrated by Ursula Meier; Coma [+see also:
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, fears about the harmful influence of the internet on teenagers according to Bertrand Bonello from France; the Argentinean production La edad media, and the absurdity of life in lockdown through the eyes of a girl, by Alejo Moguillanski and Luciana Acuña; Geographies of Solitude (Canada), an environmental documentary by Jacquelyn Mills; Children of the Mist (Vietnam), by Ha Le Dien, about the clash with tradition for young Asian women; and Father’s Day, in which Kivu Ruhorahoza explores the crisis of fatherhood in Rwanda.

The most adventurous cinema is featured in the competitive section Bande à Part. According to one of the programmers, the critic and professor Antonio Weinrichter, the developments in this section are based on “the first-person essay and the processing of archive material, two formats that often support each other to the point of forming the same protean category”. Competing for the €5,000 prize are the short films Screening Room, directed by Jessica McGoff (UK); Nazarbazi, by Maryam Tafakory (Iran/UK); Sine die (Spain), by Camila Moreiras; Una planta en el desierto, by Spaniard Claudia Sánchez; and Metaleptic Attack, by Johannes Binotto (Switzerland); and the feature films A Night of Knowing Nothing [+see also:
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interview: Payal Kapadia
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, a film produced between India and France by Payal Kapadia; Freedom from Everything, a film by the Canadian Mike Hoolboom; Rewind & Play [+see also:
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, by Alain Gomis (France/Germany); and The Timekeepers of Eternity, by Aristotelis Maragkos (Greece/UK).

Finally, in the Panorama Spain section, competing films include, They Carry Death [+see also:
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, Lullaby [+see also:
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, Wan Xia and Los caballos mueren al amanecer [+see also:
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; while The Freakiest Night section will screen Everyone Will Burn by David Hebrero.

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(Translated from Spanish by Vicky York)

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