The Basque short film 'Azken otsoa' will compete at the Zinebi festival
- Between 9 and 16 November, you will see a total of 52 international films, including Azken Otsoa of fiction by Iker Maguregi, produced entirely in Euskera, and five other films shot in Euskal Herria. They will be screened at the Golem cinemas in Bilbao.
Tomorrow afternoon begins the Zinebi festival, which is sixty years old and will be held at the Euskalduna Palace. The opening ceremony will take place at the Arriaga Theatre in Bilbao and it will pay tribute to the Argentine filmmaker Mariano Llinos, recognizing "his aesthetic radicality for creation".
You will be given the Gold Medal Honor Mikelato at the event. Llinos will also present her new work, La Flor, a 14-hour film that will be screened for three consecutive days at Azkuna ZENTROA from 11 to 13 November at 5 p.m. At the closing gala, a second Mikelazo de Honor will be offered to the Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul. His “ability to conjugate reality and fantasy naturally” will be honoured.
A total of 3,770 works from 124 countries, of which 52 have been selected by the jury, submitted their application for the Zinebi Official Prize. Six are Basque productions and a full film in Basque; that is the Azken otsoa short film by Iker Maguregi. These are the jobs that will be competing and that have taken place among us: The Cadoul of cracium by Bodgar Muresanu; Ancora lucciole by María Elorza; Love always by Maider Fernández; Il dolce far by Richard Sahagún; and It is All Right Here by Teresa Sendagorta. In total you will see 22 fictional films, 11 animated films and 18 documentaries.
This year the international competition ZIFF Zinebi First Film will also be held for the third time: an international competition dedicated to the premium opera. Five films will compete with each other, including the following: Fausto (Canada, 2018) by Andrea Bussman and Casanovagen (Germany, 2018) by Lousie Donschen.
The Bertoko Begiradak section, dedicated to Basque cinema, is also broadcast. There will be 19 short films and documentaries, including those competing in the Official Section, in the BBK room in Bilbao from 12 to 15.
Saturday, Basque Film Day
This day has been prepared to "pay tribute to the past, the present and the future" of cinema in the Basque Country. In addition to the colloquia and workshops, at 5 and a half in the afternoon the Azkuna ZENTROA auditorium will project the projection of the Basque short films that will compete in the Official Section and later the Basque filmmakers will be honoured at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao.
Special Honour Mikeldi will be delivered there, which will be delivered by Jose Antonio SISTIAGA, Jose Angel Rebolledo, Anton Marikaetxeberria and Ramón Barea.
Itoiz, udako sesioak filma estreinatu dute zinema aretoetan. Juan Carlos Perez taldekidearen hitz eta doinuak biltzen ditu Larraitz Zuazo, Zuri Goikoetxea eta Ainhoa Andrakaren filmak. Haiekin mintzatu gara Metropoli Foralean.
