23/09/2022 - The rendezvous, which kicks off today and will continue unspooling until Saturday 1 October, will screen more than 100 titles, and will also pay tribute to Jaime Chávarri and Pablo Trapero

Starting today, and all the way up until Saturday 1 October, Ourense will be the Galician capital of arthouse film. Over the course of this week, the 27^th Ourense International Film Festival (OUFF) will host the screenings of over 100 titles, scattered among its various sections. The official section will boast 13 features, all of which will be titles getting their Galician premieres. However, in addition to this, the gathering will host a number of Spanish premieres – namely, films of the likes of Remains of the Wind [+see also:
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film profile] by Tiago Guedes, Perfume de Gardenias (Puerto Rico/Colombia) by Macha Colón, How I Learned to Fly by Radivoje Antic and The Open Body [+see also:
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interview: Ángeles Huerta
film profile] by Ángeles Huerta. These are joined by O home e o can by Ángel de la Cruz, which will enjoy its world premiere in Ourense.

The official section will also play host to titles helmed by a slew of today’s great filmmakers, which have emerged victorious at big festivals such as Berlin, Venice and Cannes. Audiences in Ourense will thus be able to enjoy movies of the calibre of Both Sides of the Blade [+see also:
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interview: Ruben Östlund
interview: Ruben Östlund
film profile] by Ruben Östlund, El agua [+see also:
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interview: Elena López Riera
film profile] by Elena López Riera, On the Fringe [+see also:
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interview: Juan Diego Botto
film profile] by Juan Diego Botto, and Tori and Lokita [+see also:
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interview: Joely Mbundu
interview: Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
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As well as showcasing the titles that will be going head to head in an attempt to win prizes totalling €52,000, the festival will pay tribute to key figures from today’s cinema landscape. For example, Argentinian director Pablo Trapero will receive the International Honorary Calpurnia. Furthermore, DoP Lucía C Pan (What Went Wrong? [+see also:
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interview: Liliana Torres
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interview: Xacio Baño
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interview: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
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making of
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interview: Daniel Monzón
film profile]) will be honoured with the Special Prize of the 27^th OUFF, and the Honorary Calpurnia will be granted to filmmaker Jaime Chávarri. The latter will be in attendance in Ourense to present his most recent work, La manzana de oro [+see also:
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The varied programme of the OUFF will be rounded off by parallel sections such as Inédito en Ourense, Sesiones Especiales, Ciclo Xacobeo, Cine e auga, Panorama Galicia, Cine y Literatura, Cine na cadea, Ciclo Nicolás Echevarría, Ciclo Unam, OUFF Series and Cine en Familia. Besides these highlights, there will be photo exhibitions, meetings with industry professionals, film-focused strolls around the city and concerts.