The short film industry meets at the 47th Huesca International Film Festival

More than fifty short filmmakers from America, Europe, Asia and Oceania have confirmed their presence in a festival that will award the Ciudad de Huesca Prize to Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Isabel Peña.

He Huesca International Film Festival Its 47th edition begins this Friday, June 7. The reference date of the short film will present a total of 76 jobs from 29 countries who will compete until next June 15 for one of the three Danzante Awards that will open the Oscars and Goya awards.

For a week, the capital of Huesca focuses on the seventh art with screenings, talks, Gastrocine, open-air cinema, project presentations, musical performances and exhibitions; a multidisciplinary program open to all types of audiences that serves as a business card for the 56 confirmed short filmmakers who will arrive from all over the world.

The directors and screenwriters Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Isabel Peña will receive at the inauguration Carlos Saura City of Huesca Award, which for the first time receives the name of this iconic Alto Aragonese filmmaker. The delivery will take place in a ceremony directed by Alfonso Palomares together with Pilar Barrio and conducted by Encarni Corrales, in which the Pepe Escriche Award to EGEDA and it will be its president Enrique Cerezo who picks it up.

The Huesca International Film Festival opens its 47th edition this Friday, June 7, which will run until next Saturday, June 15, when it reveals its list of winners. The Alto Aragonese capital will once again be “the world capital of short films” as its director Rubén Moreno declared. A total of 56 filmmakers from Europe, America, Asia and Oceania will be present to defend their works before the Huesca public, a total of 76 works from 29 cinematographies as diverse as Mexico, Modavia, Argentina, Brazil, China, France, Ukraine, Australia or Spain, among others. The official section has 12 premieres, 24 debut films and 8 works from film schools, demonstrating the festival's capacity as a catalyst for talent, in addition to serving as a preselection for the Oscars through its three Danzante Awards.

The Teatro Olimpia, the main venue for the free competitive screenings, will host the inaugural gala directed by Alfonso Palomares together with Pilar Barrio and presented by Encarni Corrales. During the ceremony, tribute will be paid to the filmmakers Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Isabel Peña with the Ciudad de Huesca Carlos Saura Award for their career and projection. The award, which also highlights their role as screenwriters, will be presented by the director from Huesca who, since this edition, gives him his name. The second tribute of the evening will be for EGEDA; The non-profit entity for the management of the rights of audiovisual producers will receive, in the hands of its president Enrique Cerezo, the Pepe Escriche Award for its ability to build bridges between cultures through cinema.

The programming finds a balance between the professional part and the more festive part, open to the city and all types of audiences. Activities such as Gastrocine, project presentations, proposals for children, exhibitions, screenings in senior centers, meetings between the public and some of the big stars who will visit the event and a selection of premiere feature films are part of the soul of the edition. The feature film exhibition deserves special mention, led by the international premiere of Great Orchestra (June 10, 10 p.m.), a documentary directed by Argentine Peri Azar, who will be present in Huesca as will the team of the film that won the Malaga Festival: The days to come. The film directed by Carlos Marqués-Marcet and starring David Verdaguer (I leave it whenever I want, Summer 1993, 10,000km) and María Rodríguez Soto can be seen on Tuesday, January 11 (10 p.m.) and her team will also participate in a meeting in Plaza López Allué (1 p.m.).

Two comedies directed by women can also be seen before their commercial release: The summer house (June 8, 10 p.m.) by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and The girls well (June 13, 10 p.m.) by the Mexican Alejandra Márquez Abella, winner of the Biznaga de Oro for Best Ibero-American Film at the Malaga Festival.

An important location in the final part of the contest will be General Alsina Square. On Friday the 14th the feature film will be screened for free July by Iciar Bollaín, in collaboration with the Aragonese Women's Institute, while the last day will take place again in the open-air cinema, but this time the spotlight will be on Notes for a robbery film by León Siminiani, a film that won the Feroz Prize for best documentary.

Marisa Paredes, Luis Buñuel Award

Another of the proper names of the edition will be Marisa Paredes. The Spanish actress will be honored on Wednesday the 12th with the Luis Buñuel Award in tribute to an entire career that includes such iconic titles in European cinematography as High Heels, La flor de mi secreto, Todo sobre mi madre or La vida es bella, among many others.

The actress who has been awarded by festivals such as Karlovy Vary, Valladolid or Málaga and who has been recognized with the Goya of Honor and the National Cinematography Award will share a “Vermouth” that same day with the entire public in the Plaza López Allué (1 p.m.). The culmination of the day will be the tribute gala and the screening of one of his most recent films, the international production My Italian Family, which demonstrates its impact and impact inside and outside our borders.