translated from Spanish: Bi Gan and Abbas Fahdel tapes will be part of the official selection of the 25th edition of the FICValdivia

film contest announced part of his will Official lesson for this anniversary for its 25 years of existence: 23 films in their three competitive sections for feature films, featuring works from Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America, as well as Latin American premieres and other films It will have its world premiere in Valdivia. In addition to the films in competition were announced films that will form part of the opening and closing of the festival, which will take place between 8 and 14 October.
Shows anniversary FICValdivia held a special exhibition to mark its anniversary, 25 years / 25 Films Chilean, the exhibition will feature 6 national feature films that have marked the recent history of the Chilean cinema and 19 short films by directors and Chilean directors who formed part of the Valdivia Film Festival programming throughout its history. In addition, there are several novelties that will be presented during the main events of the Festival: “both the opening ceremony and the awards will feature a series of milestones and surprises, among them will be two rescues historical display performed by the festival: the suitcase of Raul Ruiz, recovered by the Festival in conjunction with the film library of the University of Chile and which will celebrate ten years since its world premiere at the 15th Edition and fifty-five from its filming.
At the awards ceremony will be exhibited an emblematic piece in the South’s filmography: the last rustler of Armando Sandoval, who was part of the heritage rescue performed by the Cultural Center of Valdivia film promotion and will be again music to live by the Chamber Orchestra of Valdivia, such as in its revival in the FICValdivia of the year 2010 “, underlines Raúl Camargo, Director of the Festival.
For this anniversary of the International Festival of cinema of Valdivia in its programming has been proposed two programs double, consisting of a short film and one film both in opening to closing the event. In the case of the opening, will feature the display in Latin American Premiere of the short film Blue Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, one of the most acclaimed by the critics of the 21st century and who has formed part of the programming of the festival, the last time in the Gala section with the Cemetery of Splendor film the year 2015.
The opening film is the second film by Chinese director Bi Gan, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, also exhibited at Premiere Latin American quality. The film, released in the section Un Certain Regard in Cannes Festival of this year, follows unique visual exploration of the director after his debut film, Kaili Blues (which formed part of the official competition of the FICValdivia the year 2015), this time experimenting with the images in three dimensions.
To close the celebration of the festival will be screened the latest work of the prominent Chilean filmmaker José Luis Torres Leiva, the short film about things that have happened, based on the book by Marcelo Matthey of the same name, which will have its world premiere at the San Sebastian Festival. The feature that will close the contest will be the Latin American Premiere of Yara, the third feature of the Iraqi director Abbas Fahdel, who shook the audiovisual world the year 2015 with his Homeland more than five-hour documentary: Iraq Year Zero, which is he exhibited at the Festival of Valdivia that same year. Fahdel this time directed a fiction, entering issues of migration and displacement as it can do someone who has experienced it firsthand.
Official selection international film category international film of 25 ° FICValdivia official selection comprises two national films: La Casa Wolf, Leon Cristóbal and Joaquin kitchen (Chile, 2018, 74′), Premiere Chilean, released globally in Berlin; and Enigma, of Ignacio Juricic (Chile, 2018, 80′), International Premiere, Valdivia being the second festival in the world to have the projection of this first film premiering at the Festival of San Sebastian. It will also feature the Premiere Latin American’s family immersed, María Alché (Argentina, 2018, 91′), the first feature of this actress and Director, International Guest at the festival the year 2016.
The rest of the films that complete the 12 selected are: Ainhoa, I’m not that Carolina Astudillo (Spain, 2018. 98′), Latin-American Premiere; Braquer Poitiers, Claude Schmitz. France. 2018-60′, International Premiere; Casanovagen, Luis Donschen (Germany, 2018, 67′), Latin-American Premiere; Cassandro the exotic!, of Marie Losier. France. 2018 73′. Latin-American premiere; This film I did thinking of you, Pepe Gutiérrez (Mexico, 2018, 66′), International Premiere; Still recording, Saaed the Batal and Ghiath Ayoub (Syria, Lebanon, Qatar, France, Germany, 2018, 116′), International Premiere; Our House, of Yui Kiyohara (Japan, 2017, 80′), Premiere Chilena; On tudo about nothing, Pestana Didio (Portugal, 2018, 87′), International Premiere; and Erased, _Ascent of the Invisible, of Ghassan Halwani (Lebanon, 2018, 76′), Latin-American Premiere, closing the selection.
Official selection film Chilean Chilean film competitive section this year featuring four world premieres: the dreams of the Castle, by René Ballesteros (Chile, 2018, 72′); Living there is not hell, it is the fire of the desert. The fullness of life was there as a tree, Javiera Véliz (Chile, 2018, 58′); Zurita, Alejandra Carmona (Chile, 2018, 76′); and heaven of water, Margarita Poseck (Chile, 2018, 57′).
Two films whose world premiere was at the Festival de Marseille complete the official selection: Las Cruces, of Carlos Vásquez and Teresa Arredondo (Chile, 2018, 75′), International Premiere; and once the night of Antonia Rossi (Chile, 2018, 76′), International Premiere.
Official selection international youth film one of the ways to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the International Film Festival of Valdivia is the creation of a new competitive section, addressed to the youth audience, both millennial as post-millennial, featuring films from Latin America, Europe and Asia.
They are five films with themes and juvenile protagonists: Amal, Mohamed Siam (Egypt, Lebanon, Germany, France, Norway, Denmark, Qatar, 2017, 83′), Latin-American Premiere; Amiko, Yoko Yamanaka (Japan, 2017, 66′), Latin-American Premiere; The best thing you can do with your life, by Zita Erffa (Germany, Mexico, 2018, 93′), Premiere Chilena; Premiums, Laura Bari (Argentina, 2017, 100′) Premiere Chilena; and Yonlu of Hique Montanari (Brazil, 2017, 88′), Premiere Latinoamericana.
Shows 25 years/25 Chilean films “We want to remember our history and celebrate it together with our audience and national directors that have accompanied us during all these years, allowing FICValdivia to be what it is today”, says Raúl Camargo. with regard to the It shows 25 years 25 films, which will feature 6 national feature films that have marked the recent history of the Chilean cinema and 19 short films by directors and Chilean directors who formed part of the programming of the Festival de Valdivia in its history, adding 25 You films projected must-sees to understand the past quarter-century of national cinema: short meeting of family, of Andrés Wood (1994) meeting, Tomás Welss (1995) bantamweight bout, Alicia Scherson (1996) always, Marialy Rivas (1997) heaven and the Earth are as old as I am and 10 thousand things are one, of Fernando launderers (1998) photos, Matías Bize (1998) are arranged as wings chincol, Vivienne Barry (2002) the treasure of the snails, Cristián Jiménez (2004) women workers leaving the factory , José Luis Torres Leiva (2005) bicycles, Sebastián Brahm (2005) Cessna, Dominga Sotomayor (2006) the Trapeze, Maite Alberdi (2006) what Lucia brings rain, Alejandro Fernández almonds (2007) / Luis Cristóbal León, Niles Atallah, Joaquin Kitchen (2007-2008) shower, María Jose San Martin (2010) Mount Gabriel, Christopher Murray (2010) at the end: the last letter, Tiziana Panizza (2012) San Juan, the longest night, Claudia Huaiquimilla (2012) story of a bear, Gabriel Osorio and Patricio Scale (2014) feature films Holy family, Sebastián Lelio (2005) Mirageman, Ernesto Díaz Espinoza (2007) old cats, Sebastián Silva and Pedro Peirano (2010) the other day, Ignacio Agüero (2012) Naomi Campbell, Camila Donoso and Nicolás Videla (2013)
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FICValdivia is a project sponsored by the National Council for culture and the arts and has the support of the Universidad Austral de Chile, the Regional Government of rivers, the municipality of Valdivia and the Corporation for the development of the Region’s rivers. All these bodies work together to the Valdivia film promotion center to celebrate this first quarter of a century.

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