Special Activities

6th Forum on cinema and gender perspective
This meeting proposes to create a space for thinking, exchanging knowledge and experiences that contribute to making visible, and problematizing and reflecting upon gender (among o…
November 3
14:00
Chauvin

The recovery of film material: Finding a lost film
A premiere presentation of the discovery of La revolución justicialista (The Justicialist Revolution), directed by Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino in 1971, whose orig…
November 3
18:00
Chauvin

Updating regulations to expand cultural diversity
Expanding audiovisual and cultural regulations to enhance the federal production of works and cultural content throughout Argentine territory.
With Pablo Carro
November 4
12:00
Chauvin

Presentation of the book «El canon del cine norteamericano. Vol. 3 (The canon of American cinema. Vol. 3)»
With the publication and presentation of this volume 3, the history of cinema in the United States is completed, covering its cinematography between 1990 and 2022. In this final vo…
November 4
14:00
Chauvin

From the page to the world: Exploring the creative process of film adaptation
The participation of the Argentine Foreign Ministry in the Mar del Plata Film Festival seeks to explain its role in international cultural and cinematographic promotion, also highl…
November 4
16:00
Chauvin

What is censored sees the light: the Ratings Board from the perspective of film tradition
Devoted to censorship, the Argentine Ente de Calificación Cinematográfica (Film Ratings Board) carried out its work to great effect due to its methodology and, above all, the res…
November 4
18:00
Chauvin

Presentation of the book «Mar del Plata es Cine. De los pioneros a 2024 (Mar del Plata is Cinema: from the pioneers to 2024)»
The authors Julio Neveleff and Miguel Monforte present this book that is based on more than 260 professional and independent, medium- and feature-length films. Filmed in Mar del Pl…
November 5
14:00
Chauvin

Presentation of the book «Fundido a negro. Cine y censura a 40 años del retorno de la democracia (Fade to black: cinema and censorship 40 years after the return of democracy)»
40 years after the return of democracy, with this book, the Mar del Plata International Film Festival celebrates the fundamental collective task that is implied by cinema as a form…
November 5
16:00
Chauvin

Behind the Scenes: How to Make a Horror Movie Today
Some of the most original and daring filmmakers of recent years work with the genre of horror, redefining it with each film. In this conversation, three of these filmmakers will re…
November 5
18:00
Chauvin

Masterclass: Juan Antonio Bayona
Since his beginnings with El orfanato (The Orphanage), the Spanish director has been exploring horror, whether through the supernatural, the worlds of children or that whi…
November 6
12:30
Sala Teatro Colón

New windows for promotion and public exhibition of content. TV and platform: the CINEAR experience
The main Argentine public content exhibition policies (TV channel, VOD platforms, movie theaters) will be presented, with the aim of analyzing the tools for programming audiovisual…
November 6
16:00
Chauvin

Presentation of the book «Mumblecore. Exploraciones sobre el cine independiente norteamericano (Mumblecore: explorations of American independent cinema)»
This is the first book in Spanish about the series of microbudget films that began at the beginning of the 21st century. Edited by Álvaro Bretal, Milagros Porta and Iván Zgaib, t…
November 6
18:00
Chauvin

Presentation of «Cuadernos FEISAL 2 - Apropiaciones estéticas latinoamericanas (FEISAL 2 Notebooks - Latin American aesthetic appropriations)»
The second book in the FEISAL Notebooks collection brings together articles by teachers and researchers from the schools that make up the Federation of Image and Sound Sch…
November 7
14:00
Chauvin

How to film as a family and not die trying: Toby Poser and the other Adams
Making a film is an adventure that presents many challenges. Doing it with your own family adds another series of difficulties and benefits. The matriarch of the Adams, the coolest…
November 7
16:00
Chauvin

Presentation of the book «Es solo una película. El cine según Martín Rejtman (It's just a movie. Cinema according to Martín Rejtman)»
Written by Pablo Chernov and Fernando Krapp, and published by La Crujía, the book arises from interviews carried out between 2018 and 2023, with Rejtman himself and with people wh…
November 8
14:00
Chauvin

The importance of local policies in audiovisual production
In Mar del Plata it is essential to promote the development of a local audiovisual industry. This conversation brings together producers and managers in a talk that will address th…
November 8
16:00
Chauvin

Masterclass: Graciela Borges
It is no secret that the actress of El dependiente and La ciénaga, among many other great films, is one of the most admired and beloved dramatic artists in Argen…
November 8
18:00
Chauvin

Presentation of the book «Por ser mujer. La biografía de Vlasta Lah (Because I am a woman. The biography of Vlasta Lah), about the first woman director of Argentine sound cinema»
Candela Vey and Martín Miguel Pereira, authors of the book, will address the problems inherent in the investigation of a film pioneer: her invisibility and the difficulty of findi…
November 9
14:00
Chauvin

Alternative formats: Exploring the possibilities of the audiovisual language of Instagram and YouTube
Particularities regarding the use of Instagram and YouTube as alternatives for the circulation of productions by independent filmmakers and content creators. Formats, metrics, stra…
November 9
16:00
Chauvin

Presentation of the book «La marca del asesino (The Mark of the Assassin)»
The International Horror and Fantasy Film Week of the Costa del Sol, twenty years after having brought its first publication on horror film characters to Mar del Plata, presents it…
November 10
14:00
Chauvin

Current problems and possible solutions for Argentine cinema
In recent years, Argentine cinema has suffered a serious problem of financing and adaptation to new times. A space for debate and reflection on possible answers is proposed.
…
November 10
16:00
Chauvin

Masterclass: María José Santacreu
Founded in 1952, Cinemateca Uruguaya is an example to follow in terms of its mission to preserve and disseminate not only its film archive – declared a historical monument – bu…
November 10
18:00
Chauvin

Final Voyage to China. Talk and presentation
In the memories of Soledad Silveyra and Carlos Perciavalle, the jazz of their inventions resonates: adventures, tours in brokendown cars, the lies that became truths, but, above al…