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26 March 2010
 
25th MAR DEL PLATA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

 

 

 

The 25th edition of Mar del Plata International Film Festival will be held from 20th to 28th November, 2010. The call for film entries and the official announcement will be made soon. 

All the information will be available here, in our Web Site.

 
22 December 2009
 
JUAN CARLOS TABÍO AND HIS SILVER ASTOR
  JUAN CARLOS TABÃO AND HIS SILVER ASTOR  
The director Juan Carlos Tabío receives from Carolina Silvestre, vice president of INCAA, National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts, the Silver Astor,Jury's Special Award, to the cast of The horn of plenty. During the 24th Mar del Plata International Film Festival, his film also won the Cinecolor Audience Award.
 
 
WHAT THE FESTIVAL LEFT...
   
The Mar del Plata International Film Festival would like to thank to all who made this Cinema Celebration happened. To the authorities, guests, staff, volunteers, and specially, to the audience, that with its presence, made this Festival an outstanding success. Thank you very much! See you soon!
 
 
EIGHT CINEMA DAYS IN TWO MINUTES
   
 
 
FINAL CUT!
   

At last, what had been a promise stopped being a debt: the stars were the films. And the cinemas were crowded. People took part of this exceptional cinema marathon. As a perfect finale, there were the awards. And the emotions. The closing ceremony of the 24th edition of Mar del Plata International Film Festival left in the air the happiness of being one more year together with the world cinema.

The ceremony, held in Astor Piazzolla room of Auditorium Theatre, counted with the presence of the Festival’s President, José Antonio Martínez Suárez; INCAA’s President, Liliana Mazure; Genreal Pueyrredón County Mayor, Gustavo Pulti and the County’s Secretary of Culture, Carlos Rodríguez.

“Being the Festival’s President also means being the emerging head of a group of more than 80 anonym persons”, said José Antonio Martínez Suárez. With his sense of humor always at the top, he remarked the importance of the joint work to make this event and he thanked Mar del Plata’s Mayor and the Province, who “have risen to the antecedents”. After that, it was Luis Scalella’s turn, President of FIAPF, International Federation of Film Producers Association, who highlighted the transcendence of the Festival as one of the 13 Class-A ones in the world. “We have had an incredible number of people. This is a party”.

La Arena group contributed to the ceremony with a precise and consistent freshness, with their short choreographies, a mixture of dance and acrobatics, around the audiovisual imaginary.

And the prizes were many and much the emotion of the ones who received them. The thanks-giving speeches were full of support messages to the Festival, to Public Cinema Universities and also to the independent directors’ work, who fight for going on with their passion for making films.

Eight were the cinema days. 200 films. And a constant in each of the screenings: the audience recognition to and event of which they were, undoubtedly, a vital part.

 
15 November 2009
 
GOLDEN ASTOR BEST FILM / Nora's Will
  GOLDEN ASTOR BEST FILM / Nora's Will  

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Golden Astor Best Film: Nora's Will, by Mariana Chenillo

Some people never leave. This quotes the trailer of Mariana Chenillo’s first work. And that is because in Nora’s Will, death only awakes in the ones who stay alive, the need of sorting out family bonds, love and also the hard task of tie reconciliation. 
Nora decides to kill herself, but her plan doesn’t end on death. She not only leaves all set up for her own funeral, but also arranges every detail to make her death be just the beginning.
Winner of Best Direction at the Moscow Festival, best screenplay at Skip City, Best First Work at Guanajuato and the Audience award at Morelia, Miami and Austin, this story, in a tone of black comedy, dazzles with  its deep look at human relationships and their eternal contradictions.

Mariana Chenillo says: “This darkly funny film brandishes a subtle but nevertheless sharp sense of humor that stems from the contrasts between the characters and the situations they find themselves in —the atheist José in the religious ritual for the burial, for example, or the servant’s deeply rooted catholic beliefs and the strict rules imposed by Rabbi Jacowitz. The story takes place in a context full of collisions and contradictions which ignite one another and drive the plot to an unexpected resolution: the only character who has been able to fulfill all her objectives is dead from the film’s opening, and the one who hates with all his might ends by loving with even greater intensity”.

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