Cine Argentino Unido at the Berlinale: with a record number of national films, the slogan was present at the Berlin Film Festival 2024

The Argentine delegation present at the 74th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival demonstrated under the slogan Cine Argentino Unido. The country is one of the countries that had the greatest presence at the 2024 edition of the Berlinale, with six films and with Lisandro Alonso as the outstanding jury.” This is common, as it is one of the countries with the most participation in festivals in the world. Contradictory to the success of our cinema, the new far-right government is boycotting its production and trying to eliminate it. This has generated a scandal in the world cinematic arena, arousing massive and forceful support from the world’s leading figures,” they wrote in a statement. You may also be interested in: “Cinema doesn’t ask for money”: Santiago Mitre and Vanessa Ragone spoke out in Congress against the reforms of the Omnibus LawThe slogan was presented for the first time at the San Sebastian Film Festival in the context of the first statements by President Javier Milei (then candidate for La Libertad Avanza) who harangued the closure of INCAA. In this context, the slogan was grouped in an organization of the same name, with the purpose of opposing the defunding of the film institute and the schools of audiovisual production (some of the points that the government promoted with the Omnibus Law, regressed to zero due to the lack of approval of certain articles and the initiative of referents of the filmmaker community). On this occasion and through this initiative, the Cine Argentino Unido promotes the importance of its production and affirms that it is “receiving the solidarity of the international cinematographic community”. Among the titles with a national presence that are present at the Festival are: “Sleeping with your eyes open”, by the German director Nele Wohlatz, who trained and lived for more than ten years in our country; Lucrecia Martel on the Omnibus Law: “It gives the impression that it was written with a lot of prejudices about our industry”In addition, in the Official Short Film Competition, “A Strange Movement” is competing, a tragicomedy in which Francisco Lezama (director of The Bride of Frankenstein and Dear Renzo). While in the Generation Kplus shortlist, (films about teenagers), “Los tonos mayores” is screened, the only one of the six national titles that is not a world premiere, since it was shown (and was recognized) in the Argentine Competition of the last Mar del Plata Festival. at the Forum; and “Hidden City”, by Francisco Bouzas, in the Critics’ Week.

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