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International Competition
Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Feature Length Film - «El año del descubrimiento» de Luis López Carrasco
The year 1992 marked the 500th anniversary of Colombus’ arrival in America. In Spain, it was also the year of the Barcelona Olympic Games and the universal exposition of Seville, two moments of the country’s symbolical...
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International Competition
Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Direction - Matías Piñeiro for «Isabella»
Isabella is the fifth installment of Matías Piñeiro’s Shakespeareads –the most formally experimental of his films and, at the same time, the one that’s most committed with its characters’ drama. The story of a woman...
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International Competition
Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Acting - María Villar for «Isabella»
Isabella is the fifth installment of Matías Piñeiro’s Shakespeareads –the most formally experimental of his films and, at the same time, the one that’s most committed with its characters’ drama. The story of a woman...
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International Competition
Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Screenplay - Nicolás Prividera for «Adiós a la memoria»
“I will have spent all my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We don’t remember, we rewrite memory much as history is rewritten,” said...
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International Competition
Astor Piazzolla Special Jury Award - «Moving on» by Yoon Dan-bi
The same year another Korean film about families, social classes and real-estate issues marked a milestone in world film history, young director Yoon Dan-bi made her first feature with similar elements, but with a gaze centered...
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Latin American Competition
Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Feature Length Film - «Los conductos» by Camilo Restrepo
Los conductos tells the story of Pinky, whom Camilo Restrepo met when he shot Cómo crece la sombra cuando el sol declina. Pinky used to juggle in traffic lights, print t-shirts and had escaped a religious sect where violence...
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Latin American Competition
Special Mention - «Mascarados» by Marcela Borela y Henrique Borela
The music is the engine of the different machines and the sound of materials as they impact the soil. Workers from the community of Pirenópolis, with their faces protected and their ears covered, turn the switches on and...
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Latin American Competition
Special Mention - «Fauna» by Nicolás Pereda
Paco and Luisa, both of them actors, arrive at her hometown. First they run into Gabino, Luisa’s brother. Then, in a great comedic moment that involves some overpriced cigarettes sold on the street, Paco meets her father,...
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Latin American Competition
Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Short Film - «Correspondencia» by Dominga Sotomayor and Carla Simón
In the form of a filmed epistolary conversation, two young filmmakers talk about cinema, their families’ past and present, legacies and motherhood. The personal, deep reflections, embodied in the delicate images taken day...
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Argentine Competition
Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Feature Length Film - «El tiempo perdido» de María Álvarez
If Marcel Proust completed the seven volumes of his novel In Search of Lost Time, what would be the most appropriate way of analyzing it in order to honor that effort? The group that stars in this documentary does so with...
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Argentine Competition
Special Mention - «Las ranas» by Edgardo Castro
Barby lives in Greater Buenos Aires. In one of the film’s first scenes, we see her taking the Sarmiento train, and starting a not-very-successful journey selling socks on the street. We see her entering stores, offering...
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Argentine Competition
Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Short Film - «Homenaje a la obra de Philip Henry Gosse» by Pablo Weber
Sitting in his computer, an Argentine director reflects on the metaphysical postulates of British natural historian Philip Henry Gosse, while he experiments with images and sounds saved in his personal database.
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Argentine Competition
José Martínez Suárez Award for Best Direction - Natalia Garayalde for «Esquirlas»
On November 3rd, 1995, the Río Tercero Military Factory in Córdoba exploded. This caused thousands of projectiles to go off and disperse over the surrounding towns, in a tragedy that would leave seven casualties and hundreds...
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Altered States Competition
Astor Piazzolla Award for the Best Feature Length Film - «Mes chers espions» by Vladimir Léon
Vladimir Léon walks to the subway in order to go and see his brother Pierre. In his hand he carries a briefcase of considerable size. Vladimir knows that inside it are all kinds of documents that belonged to their mother,...
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Altered States Competition
Special Mention - «Heliconia» by Paula Rodríguez Polanco
This is the portrait of three young people in search of an earthly paradise. It is the story of their voyage, of their desires of freedom and their affective relationships through the tropic’s proteiform landscape.
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Work In Progress Competition
Astor Piazzolla Award to the Best Project - «Morichales» by Chris Gude
A documentary about the travels of a hypothetical geographer and explorer captivated by the Venezuelan Guyana, the land of the great Orinoco, where large gold reserves exist under the palms of the Moriche. The geographer...
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Young Critics Award
Best Film - «Historia de lo oculto» by Cristian Ponce
The first feature by Cristian Ponce, a web series (Un año sin televisión and the spectacular animated show The Kirlian Frequency) and short film (Breve Historia en el Planeta) veteran, imagines an alternative Buenos Aires...
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Young Critics Award
Special Mention - «Como el cielo después de llover» by Mercedes Gaviria
Mercedes Gaviria is a young Colombian woman who left her country in order to study film in Buenos Aires. Her mother didn’t want her to go to live so far away from her, and tried to convince her to go to the University of...
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Must-Sees - Homage to Fernando "Pino" Solanas
With an emotional double program, the Festival carried out its homage to the great Fernando Pino Solanas, the fundamental figure of Argentine culture and politics who recently left us. In the first place, Victoria Solanas, Juan...
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Must-Sees - Special Dossier: 25 years of Historias Breves
If we think about a turning point in film and filmmaking in Argentina in recent decades it is, without a doubt, the appearance of Historias Breves (Short Stories). Celebrating 25 years of this series, the Mar del Plata Film...
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Must-Sees - Book Presentation Panel: What Will Become of Cinema? Postcards for the Future
Based on an idea by Marcelo Alderete, programmer of the Festival, the book What Will Become of Cinema? Postcards for the Future registers more than seventy texts about the future of cinema, its guidelines and rituals,...
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Must-Sees - After the Film: Distribution - Promotion - Exhibition
With the moderation of Fernando E. Juan Lima, President of the Festival, the panel After the film: Distribution - Promotion - Exhibition outlined the new alternatives of a particularly difficult process for independent...
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Cinematographic Preservation Panel. Cinema made by women, three case studies
Last Tuesday took place the table Cinematographic Preservation Panel. Cinema made by women, three case studies, took place, moderated by Pablo Marín, in which the preservation efforts carried out on the materiality of the...
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Must-Sees - Conversations with Masters: Miranda July
On Monday 23th, the first meeting of the Masterclasses took place and included the stellar presence of multidisciplinary artist Miranda July, who for more than an hour spoke with programmer Pablo Conde and reviewed the...
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Must-Sees - 3rd Forum on Cinema and Gender Perspective: Gender Inequalities in Cinema
For the third year in a row, the Forum on cinema and gender perspective - Gender inequalities in cinema was held. It was moderated by Lic. Analía Barrionuevo (Coordinator of the Central Unit for Gender Policies of the...
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Must-Sees - Book Presentation Panel: El asombro y la audacia. El cine de María Luisa Bemberg
As part of the Tribute dedicated to Maria Luis Bemberg, an essential filmmaker in the world of Argentine cinema, the 35th edition of the Mar del Plata Film Festival has published a book about her career, in addition to screening...
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These are the selected participants of the 3rd Young Film Critics and Judges Workshop
The workshop consists of four meetings between November 23 and 26, organized by recognized national and international critics and programmers. During the four days, they will accompany those selected in the processes of...
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Relive the Most Remembered Talks with Masters of Cinema at the Festival
As a prelude to the coming 35th edition of the Festival, it will be possible to see the participation of filmmakers Claire Denis, Bong Joon-ho, Joe Dante and Nina Menkes in previous editions of the Festival.
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