The Huesca International Film Festival will celebrate its 50th edition with great international premieres and stars

The complete programming of the 50th Huesca International Film Festival, which will include tributes to Terry Gilliam, Diego Luna and the Cervantes Institute, as well as an important number of presenter.

The Huesca International Film Festival will celebrate your "gold weddings" June 10 to 18 In the Altoaragonese capital. The cinematographic appointment, a reference for the short film, will start with an inauguration ceremony where the Carlos Saura City of Huesca Award will be awarded to the Mexican actor and director Diego Luna from the hands of the Aragonese filmmaker himself; That same day the Cervantes Institute will be honored in its director, the poet Luis García Montero, with the prize Escaric pepper. The third tribute of this 2022 will be for the filmmaker nominated for an Oscar Terry Gilliam, which will be distinguished with the Luis Buñuel Award June 15.

The feature film The volunteer It will be the inaugural tape of a contest that will also host the national presentation of two Aragonese productions: Amateur and Fleta tenor myth, as well as the preview of the feature film We will not kill each other with guns of María Ripoll. Directors, producers and filmmakers of much of the 73 short films At competition they will go to the city again to defend their works that compete for one of the three Dancing Awards that grant direct pre -selection to the Oscar awards, thus entering a record endowed with more than 24,000 euros. With this special anniversary, Huesca will be impregnated with the seventh art through exhibitions, meetings with the public, “Fulldome” sessions in the Planetarium of Aragon and collaborations with various social entities.

Official contest

A total of 73 Contest works (28 in international, 30 in Latin American and 15 in documentary) from 25 countries, they can be seen in 13 free sessions at the Olimpia Theater (at 5:00 p.m. and at 7:30 p.m., except Sunday 13 with a single session at 4:30 p.m.) with the presence of its authors and directors, an desired return that will materialize this year. Productions will try to make a hole in the palmarés that distributes more than 24,000 euros in prizes.

The selection highlights the presence of New talents, with more than 40% raw operas and works from schools. The number of directors (28 works), especially in the documentary contest (10 of the 15 selected). The online route is preserved for a good part of the official program for free and through the festival website (www.huesca-filmfestival.com), but this time the Aragón TV public award It is limited only to the public in the room.

Tributes

The appointment will be opened in style on Friday 10 with a gala where two of the honorary awards of this edition will be delivered: the Pepe Escriche Award for the Cervantes Institute and the Carlos Saura City of Huesca Award for the Mexican Diego Luna. The first will be received by its director, the poet Luis García Montero, while the second will be delivered to the famous Interpreter and Ibero -American Director by the filmmaker himself who gives name to the award and author of masterpieces such as Breed crows, Fast, quickly or Spring Angelica. The evening will culminate with the projection of the short Goya May 3 of the Altoaragonese genius and the premiere of The volunteer, Second feature film by director Nelly Reguera that will also be in the contest to present her film the same day that she opens in the commercial rooms throughout the country.

The third own name of these "gold weddings" will be that of the filmmaker Terry Gilliam; The director, screenwriter, actor and original member of the Monty Python will be on June 15 in Huesca to receive the Luis Buñuel award to his entire career. English of American origin accumulates innumerable recognition in its more than half a century of career, films such as Brazil, the fisherman king, 12 monkeys, o Fear and disgust in Las Vegas They accumulate Oscar nominations, the Golden Globes, a silver lion in Venice, as well as recognition in Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, Toronto or San Sebastián. Within the framework of the festival you can see your last work after the cameras The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (15-June; 22: 00h), a tape marked for more than two decades of preparation based on the great work of Miguel de Cervantes.

The filmographies of MOON, SURURA Y GILLIAM They will be protagonists again on two occasions. The first will return personally to the Olimpia theater a day later of receiving his tribute (Saturday, June 11) to present to the public his fiction debut: Abel (2010), a work that went through such important competitions such as Sunday, Cannes or San Sebastián (where he won the Latin Horizontes Award) and was recognized with the Ariel Award for the best original script. The session will be completed with the short film Rosa rose, where Saura takes the song of Jose Antonio Labordeta to show her vision of the children of the Civil War. For its part, the Luis Buñuel Prize cinema will be in charge of closing the edition with the free projection in the General Alsina Square of its iconic comedy The knights of the square table and their crazy followers (22h).

Aragonese representation

The Aragonese audiovisual This edition will have its outstanding space with the premieres of Amateur by Martín Gutiérrez (Monday 13-June; 22h) and the documentary Fleta tenor myth by Germán Roda (Friday 17-June; 22h). The first is a feature film in fact that it has already been presented as a project in this same contest in 2020; After his praise premiere in Thessaloniki, he finally arrives in Spain by the High Festival. Previously, you can also see the short The day the mountain flew of Alba Bresoli, on a day where special attention to the cinema of the so -called "empty Spain" is paid. Within this framework, from noon on Monday 13, the project will be knownBros. Aantantasi's legacy by José Ángel Guimera and a “vermú with…” will be held that will revolve around the rural world cinema with the presence of Martín Gutiérrez, Silvia Pradas and Ignacio Lasierra.

The second great Aragonese premiere will be that of the documentary Fleta tenor myth. Roda, author of other acclaimed works such as Marcelino the best clown in the world or Vilas and their doubles, take a tour of the life and origins of this famous singer of Albalate de Cinca on the 125th anniversary of his birth, a collaboration with RTVE and the “essential” program. The talent of the region will also have the “Aragonese online” section and a surprise that will be revealed throughout the week.

Animation and women

On Sunday, June 12, the prominence will be for the animation. The day will have Valentina, the winning feature film of the Goya that reaches the big screen of the Olimpia theater thanks to the collaboration of Cadis Huesca (session -18: 30h- presented by its own director, Chelo Loureiro). From 9pm and again in the iconic building, festival headquarters, you can enjoy a double session: The Monkey, Goya winning short film this past edition; and Flee, one of the most acclaimed animation documentaries of the last year with a total of three Oscar nominations.

The Cinema made by women It will be of special importance thanks to the collaboration with the Aragonese Institute of Women (IAM). In addition to the aforementioned inaugural film, on Thursday, June 16, the national preview of We will not kill each other with guns by María Ripoll and the presentation of the project Insumisa and Divine. Raquel Meller by Vicky Calavia, a work that recovers the figure of this Turiasonense cupletist. Calavia herself with the well -known film journalist María Guerra will be the protagonists of the "Vermú with ..." of that day that will take place in the Plaza López Allué (13: 00h).

Another figure to claim will be that of Emma Cohen, an outstanding filmmaker who died in 2016 who was left to the hat of her husband Fernando Fernán Gómez. On Tuesday 14 (22h) two of its short films will be seen next to the feature film Journey of Helena de Llanos. The director, researcher and granddaughter of Fernán Gómez himself will also be the protagonist of the vermou of that day, some meetings with the public who have already become a must and where guests such as Terry Gilliam himself (Wednesday, June 15) or Eugenio Monesma (Friday, June 17), Simon of Honor Award.

Jury of the 50th Huesca International Film Festival

The shorts to competition will be visited by Three jurors Composed of three members each, weight names within the audiovisual industry. He Ibero -American contest It will feature Colombian actor Édgar Vittorino, who became known in Spain for his roles in series such as Live without permission or Vis a vis And he has worked with directors such as Isabel Coixet, Daniel Calparsoro or Salvador Calvo. Together with the Latin American, there will be the renowned journalist and president of the Association of Cinematographic Informators of Spain, María Guerra; and Aragonese director, creator and screenwriter Álex Rodrigo, known for his work in The Money Heist, The jetty, Poison or The last show.

The International Jury For his part, he is composed of Mexican director and producer Pablo Baksht, a member of the Organizing Committee of the Morelia International Film Festival; Krzysztof Gierat, director of the Krakow Film Festival and Gaditana Gaditana Goya, Ruth Gabriel.

Finally, the Documentary jury It will have the aforementioned Helena de Llanos and Germán Roda, to which the Greek Simos Kyparissopoulos, interpreter and cultural manager that directs one of the most important short films of their country in their country is added: Micro μ. The presence of Simos Kyparissopoulos, Krzysztof Gierat and Pablo Baksht are possible thanks to the support of Spanish Cultural Action (AC/E) through their Spanish culture internationalization program (PICE) in the visitors mode.

Huesca de Cine

From the organization of the festival, programming is always taken care of for reach all corners of the city. In this area, Exhibitions They play a fundamental role and therefore there will be various spaces such as the Manuel Benito Moliner Cultural Center (50 years, 50 posters and Grams from Urso Vetton), the Huesca Museum (Buñuel in Viridiana of Ramón Masats y Chomón The fantasy cinematographer) and the coaling (Alcordanza of Alba Lorente).

A novelty of this 2022 is the Aragon Planetarium, Pedagogical and scientific dissemination referent that becomes an ally of the festival with two parallel sections: one dedicated to the space and gender SCI-FI (Thursday 16; 18: 30h) and a second in “Fulldome” format (Friday 17; 18: 30h) with filmmakers of the Earth. It will be the first time that work on this type of screen is seen in the framework of the festival. Another space where the festival will be lived and with which the bonds of union year after year will be the CDAN. The museum will host the session entitled “Having in perspective, the new European Bauhaus” and also Ricardo Calero's work inside his dark camera. Among the returns, the catalytic with its "cortolytic": two evenings with Zinentando (Tuesday 14; 23: 30h) and the San Jorge University (Thursday 16; 23: 30h) as protagonists.

The parties also come back And they will to celebrate the half century of existence, in addition to the inauguration and the festival of trade that will be held in collaboration with the Huesca Trade Association and Services, the closing of the Festival will bring Coolnenas DJs to the General Alsina Square; Dani, Mariagrep and Kimberley Tell will make attendees dance to put the final icing on this edition for memory. Guided visits, projections in the elderly center, an performance of the Circus Capicúa with the Khronos Circus show (Saturday 18; 18: 00h) and two workshops with previous registration in collaboration with the Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia (one for secondary school teachers and another for primary school children) complete this wide program.

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