Cinema in all its formats takes over Bilbao again for a week at Zinebi
Euskaraz irakurri: Zineak hamaika formatan hartuko du Bilbo, astebetez
The 65th edition of Zinebi starts tonight at the Arriaga Theater in Bilbao to begin a week of cinema in all its formats and styles, beyond the short films and documentary films that give the international festival its name.
One more year, the seven Basque short films that compete in the official section will be the first to be screened during the opening gala, at 7:30 p.m., which will be performed by La Dramática Errante (Ane Pikaza and María Goiricelaya).
Among the short films, common on screens such as Isabel Herguera (with The illustrated woman), Laida Lertxundi and Ren Ebel (with In a Nearby Field) and David Pérez Sañudo (with Sour) will be seen together with the premiere of Eneko Sagardoy in the direction (with Betiko gauawritten together with the bertsolari Nerea Ibarzabal). Memories of an Empty House (Bruno Carnide), Salt covers everything (Joana Moya) and Ximinoa (Itziar Leemans) complete the list of Basque short films in competition.
Basque filmmakers face off with figures like the winner Catarina Vasconcelosdirector of the lyric The metamorphosis of birds; Neus Ballúseither Lukas Marxtwhich already won the Grand Prix of the Bilbao festival in 2020.
In the official section, feature films, both documentaries and fictions, which are debut works of their directors, also compete within ZIFF-Zinebi First Film. Among them, the Gipuzkoan Tamara García Iglesiasafter her experience as a producer and in a shorter format, will present her first feature film tomorrow, Zarata.
At the opening gala, Zinebi will also present his honorary award to Felix Linares, film and cultural critic of EITB. The Radio Euskadi veteran, who has accompanied moviegoers during more than 1,500 programs of “The Night of…” on ETB and has never left his city, the capital of Bizkaia, will receive one of the Mikeldi of Honor of this edition.
The festival will also recognize the career of Frederick Wisemanfigure of public documentary, “the most important living documentary filmmaker”, in the words of the festival, whose latest film will be screened, Pleasant menus – Les Troisgros. Unfortunately, the 93-year-old American director is hospitalized due to a sudden worsening of his health and has canceled his trip. His production company, Zipporah Films, has told Zinebi that the director “wanted to go to Bilbao” and that until now he had participated normally in various meetings with the public and the media after releasing his most recent documentary in his country. .
The third Mikeldi will be for the Portuguese Rita Azevedo Gomeswho will visit Bilbao again at the closing gala, next Friday, November 17.
As always, Zinebi will bring a selection of the best documentaries of the season on Beautiful Docs. The winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlinale stands out, Sur l’Adamantby Nicolas Philibert), the new film by the always daring Virginia García del Pino, The Love Scam, and the new film by filmmaker Claire Simon, Notre corps.
The Bilbao festival maintains its commitment as a showcase of local production within the section Bertoko Begiradak, where it offers almost 30 Basque films. Some of them, like Accountants (Irati Gorostidi) or Arnasa betean, emakume zinegileak (Bertha Gaztelumendi and Rosa Zufía) could be seen in Zinemaldia. Taking advantage If you still have teeth missing, you weren’t thereby José Alberto Andrés Lacasta, which is filling theaters in other cities, its protagonist, the iconic Aragonese punk musician Manolo Kabezabolo, will be in Bilbao.
Among the special sessions, the true finishing touch to Zinebi stands out, on November 18, Saturday, when J of the Planets will set to music the works rescued from the Donostiarra Ivan Zulueta in the Arriaga. Before, there will be more live music with Zabalaabout the movie My Mexican Bretzeland the film Black Bach Artsakhin collaboration with Bulegoa z/b, about the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, recently dissolved after the last Azeri invasion.
Source: Eitb
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