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New titles in the non-competitive sections

The animated film «Flow», winner of 4 awards at the Annecy Film Festival, will be screened in the Children by the Sea section along with «Nightbitch» with Amy Adams in the Midnight Screamings section.
New titles in the non-competitive sections

The Mar del Plata International Film Festival has announced new titles in the non-competitive sections, in an extensive program that gives priority to Argentine cinema, while bringing many new titles from abroad, as it celebrates its 70th anniversary with retrospectives and tributes. The films that will participate in the five competitions will be announced on November 12 at a press presentation at the Gaumont cinema. The opening ceremony of the festival will take place on November 21 and the closing ceremony on the 30th.

In addition to the fifteen Argentinel feature films that were selected to compete, another seven will be part of the Argentine Panorama. These are: "Reflejado" by Juan Baldana, "Por tu bien" by Axel Monsú, "Hasta que la muerte nos separe" by Lucas Ríos, "Entre reinas" by Male Fainsod and Tomás Morelli, "La imagen santa" by Pablo Montilau, "Desentierros" by María Julia Blanco and "Mauricio Wainrot: entre bambalinas" by María Teresa Constantini. Two other Argentine documentaries will be screened in the BSO section: "Lalo" by Alejandro Clancy and "El agujerito" by Ana Hayzus and Leandro Elljal.

The extensive programming of the Spain in Movement series within the Panorama section includes, in addition to "Volvereis" by Jonás Trueba, "Dismantling an Elephant" by Aitor Echeverría, with Darío Grandinetti, Emma Suárez and Natalia de Molina, "We Treat Women Too Well" by Clara Bilbao, with Antonio de la Torre, Carmen Machi and Luis Tosar, "The House" by Álex Montoya, with Diego Verdaguer, "The Devil's Carrying It" by Guillermo Polo, with Antonia San Juan, "The Tortuga" by Belén Fuentes, with Antonia Zegers, "Who Wants to Marry an Astronaut?" by David Matamoros, with Raúl Tejón, "Valenciana" by Jordi Nuñez, with Conchi Espejo and Ángela Cervantes and the documentaries "Black Butterflies" by David Baute and "The Fugida" by Josep Morell, Guillem Sánchez and Marc M. Sarrado.

France will be represented with a number of films including Franck Dubosc's "Un ours dans le Jura" starring Laure Calamy. Czech films include Kaveh Daneshmand's "Endless Summer Nights", Lithuanian films include "Toxic", winner at Locarno. And English films include Nora Fingscheidt's "The Outrun", starring Saoirse Ronan. The festival will also screen Umberto Pasolini's "The Return", starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche and Angela Molina.

In addition to Japan, which also includes Sho Miyake's “All the Long Nights”, there will also be other Asian films. Amil Golani's “Logout” will also be screened from India, and Xiaoxuan Jiang's “To Kill a Mongolian Horse” from Malaysia. Lebanon will participate with Farah Kassem's documentary “We are Inside”, and Israel with Sophie Artus' “Halisa”, Shemi Zarhin's Hemda (Bliss) and Dani Rosenberg's “Of Dogs and Men”. The Australian “My Eyes” by Angela How will complete the list.

The festival will also maintain its sections Mar de Chicos y Chicas and Hora Cero. In the first section, we present "Flow", an animated film by Gints Zibalodis that has won awards in Annecy, Guadalajara, Melbourne and Athens, as well as "That Christmas" by Simon Otto, with a script by Richard Curtis and Peter Souter. The second section consists of the Paraguayan production "No entres" by Hugo Cardoso, "Ghost Killer" by the Japanese Kensuke Sonomura, the Korean "The Tenants" by Yoon Eunkyoung and the American "Canina" by Marielle Heller, starring Amy Adams, as well as the documentary "Chain Reactions" by Alexandre O.Phillipe.

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