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Films fitted

  • Yesterday we said that the overdose of the Festival necessarily brings some symptoms. Among them, the main one, is to mix reality with fiction, or a synesthesia in which limits are removed outside and inside the screen. Today, however, it has been the films themselves that have played with this concept, that have become aware of a world beyond filming and have created synesthetic scripts. To see if in the diagnosis the doctor makes next week he will play a role in favor or against; however, for the filmmaker it is a tempting mathematical problem that must be solved.

24 September 2020 - 23:30
Zarata mediatikoz beteriko garai nahasiotan, merkatu logiketatik urrun eta irakurleengandik gertu dagoen kazetaritza beharrezkoa dela uste baduzu, ARGIA bultzatzera animatu nahi zaitugu. Geroz eta gehiago gara, jarrai dezagun txikitik eragiten.

Sucacabra is the debut in Grigory Kolomytseven's feature film. The film tells the story of a child who is afraid of the future and who lives in great frustration with their environment. Her father doesn't even want to see her, her mother wants to take her to an orphanage, and she's taking out her platonic love with the most vain young man in the village. Among them, he will meet a lone dog who decides that he is a mythological character of vampiro-goat, the only friend he can trust. The child is aware that Chupacabra's bite can turn the victim into an aggressor. The project was developed in the Ikusmira Berriak program during 2018.

The film is a return to childhood, in games that can be excessively dangerous in cities. We often accept in the movies scenarios that would outweigh us in our day-to-day, as if the screen gave a filter, a way to heat or beautify things. These children are more than once near death, and that is part of everyday life. Seeing that the environment does not accept him as it is, the protagonist reinforces his wild behavior and decides to turn Chupacabra into a mythological beast. The characters are very deep and the society created among them is drawn in the film, which helps a lot when constructing the story. The execution of the mythological question leaves open the door to feeling what happened, enabling truth and lies.

Autofiction is Laida Lertxundi's last short. In the filming, Lertxundi refers to the women around him and talks about issues such as motherhood, abortion, ruptures and anxiety. In the words of these women, who have or can have mirrors, the artist constructs an identity that can be theirs, possible paths or actions according to them. The work done gracefully leads us to wonder about the chosen paths, and it happens at a fast pace. The director also rolls on himself, leaving open the question of whether or not it is a fiction.

The movie Fauna is the humor of the absurd. It is a long run by Nicolás Pereda and sits in a mining town in northern Mexico. There are siblings who come to visit their parents and who have not been seen in recent years. The physical and emotional distance between the family will lead them to imagine parallel realities, moving away from the usual to each character.

The work presents the facts at a slow pace, making the spectator uncomfortable. The awkward relationships that fail to comply with the right social codes lead those who seek to lose patience and laugh at the absurdity. When the other story emerges, it becomes a means of evasion: it represents a more moving story born in the same town and with the same characters. This is a detective looking for a missing brother, a woman who is being taken out of an illness by her sister, and her mother is a bar singer. The characters playing in different roles bring honesty to the routine, and both stories remain unfinished. The book my brother is reading has to be found to know the end...


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