Alongside the many competitive sessions, FEST also includes a series of thematic screenings, expanding the scope of the event into other fields and spectrums. From regional retrospectives to new media formats, the demarcation lines that separate space, time and film are challenged to its core.
Special Screenings
Our opening and closing sections have often been the highlights of our programs.
Films such as Tangerine by Sean Baker (USA), Everybody Knows by Asghar Farhadi (Iran), 10.000 KM by Carlos Marques Marcet (Spain), Birth by Jonathan Glazer (UK), Tom of Finland by Dome Karukauski (Sweden/Finland), Dementia 13 by Francis Ford Coppola (USA) or Wes Anderson's debut feature, Bottle Rocket (USA), have caught everyone’s attention, starting and closing our previous editions in great style.
2022 will be no exception. And throughout the week, the event will showcase several other productions and formats, including screenings directly focused on children, teenagers and the elderly, completing our special screenings program in all the right ways.
Echoes
As a film festival grows, so does its scope, and its own perspective on the meaning of filmmaking in the 21st century. The spectrum of works crossing our path in the past few years, have left us begging for more platforms with which to fully showcase the new mood on the film scene.
With that fresh need in mind, Echoes was born: the brand new section where audiences will have the opportunity to dig in deeper, beyond our traditional competitions, and continue on the voyage of discovering new worlds on screen. Echoes aims at gathering an uncompromising selection of films from filmmakers whose works were selected in previous editions, alongside new films by authors whom we’ve been following with great interest, and are clearly engraving their own marks in cinema.
Be Kind Rewind
With so much focus on the future of cinema, you would tend to think that FEST has a one-track mind. Well, you’d be wrong.
Without understanding the past you’ll hardly get a proper sense of the future, and to make sure the past is not forgotten we created Be Kind Rewind, a section focused on retrospectives and/or thematic screenings, covering all sort of issues.
In the recent past, this section has been dedicated to subjects such as the Role of Women in Filmmaking, different political movements, the insanity of North Korean cinema, or simply deeper looks into the filmography of artists such as LM Kit Carson, among others.
