Lido Pimienta, Jean-Luc Godard and everything not to be missed at Ficci 2023

From March 22 to 27, the 62nd edition of Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival (Ficci) with a program of films, academic activities and activities related to the film industry that will make La Heroica the meeting point for film lovers, agents of the cultural sector and the audiovisual industry in Colombia and abroad .

That’s why GlobeLiveMedia Colombia makes a selection with some of the unmissable events for a new edition of this festival that always manages to leave a good note among the participants.

The presence of Spanish cinema has always been welcome at Ficci, and in 2023 it will present two possibilities where the past and the present are celebrated. On the one hand, there will be four Iberian films about women directed by women in the cycle “Cinema of Spain, Women”.

With the support of the Spanish Embassy in Colombia, the Spanish Cooperation Training Center and the Program for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture (PICE). Ficci presents four very different stories where women have a main role in front of and behind the cameras. It is little pig of Charlotte Pereda; ramona of Andrea Bagney, Five Lobitos of Alauda Ruiz De Azua (winner of a goya price for Best New Director) and my friend’s friend of Zaida Carmona. In all four, the strength and vulnerability of the female gender are appreciated, beyond moral or value judgments.

On the other hand, four titles by the emblematic Valencian filmmaker will be screened Luis Garcia Berlanga, in the cycle “Classics of Spain, Berlanga”. His acumen in bringing his films to overcome the pressure of censorship during the Franco years without sacrificing either intelligence or critical thinking, despite not hiding his taste for eroticism or the iconoclast, made him an essential name in the history of post-war Spanish cinema. This is why Fici will project Placido (1961), The Executioner (1963), Life Size (1974) there The Heifer (1985).

Over the years, France has elevated the social struggle and its love for the classic as its trademarks. Thus, for Ficci 62, the French delegation chose to remind participants. On the one hand, the documentary will be screened The Factory of Pandemics (2023), directed by French activist Marie-Monique Robin in which he seeks to establish the relationship between ecosystems and human health with the pandemics that have afflicted humanity throughout the 21st century, among which Dengue, Chikungunya, Covid-19 or Ebola. The fact that almost all of them are zoonoses (infectious diseases transmitted to humans by animals) is the starting point for trying to answer the cause of what she calls in her book “the epidemic of pandemics”.

On the other hand, four of the great classics of another dissatisfied with society like Jean-Luc Godard will be screened as part of Ficci 62: At the end of the escape (1960), Alphaville, Pierrot le fou (both from 1965) and The Chinese (1967). The latter recorded in full effervescence the social and student movement which will lead to the memorable French May.

Colombian-Spanish actress Juana Acosta will be awarded at Ficci 62, where she will receive the Special Award for International Trajectory in the Audiovisual Industry where her achievements will be recognized since her debut as an actress in 1995, and particularly since she moved to Spain in 2000, where she achieved significant recognition that has allowed her to remain active in both film and film. television since then and until today. .

The actress spoke before the award ceremony:

If it was characterized by something lido pepper Since its creation, it has been about showing passion in everything it does. Both in her visual and sound proposal and in the defense of her Afro-Colombian and Wayuu heritage, the Colombian currently residing in Canada and nominated for the 2021 Grammy Awards will be presented at the fifth edition of NIDO Acústicoa space designed to unite music and the audiovisual industry with the participation of great artists.

The appointment will be Thursday March 23 in the Terrace Palace of the Proclamation in Cartagena, where the Barranquillera will offer through samples and beats a very personal way of apprehending the music, the fusion and the act of rescuing the tradition of indigenous and Afro-Colombian peoples, to which she adds her powerful voice to be beautiful. In addition, she will participate in a conversation with Simona Sánchez in which she will discuss the story behind the lyrics of her 2020 album. Miss Colombia, and the reality of feminism around the world, and for which she recently spoke out on her social media when she questioned the branch of feminism that promotes transphobia. The event is supported by the Canadian Embassy in Colombia.