FICValdivia announces competitive sections: Official Feature Film Selection, Latin American and Caribbean Short Film, and Latin American and Caribbean Children’s Short Film

Organized by Universidad Austral de Chile, produced by the Valdivia Cultural Center for Film Promotion, and convened by the City of Valdivia and the Los Rios Regional Government, FICValdivia aims to offer Chilean and foreign filmmakers a space for dissemination and competition, along with promoting national and international audiovisual production of artistic quality. This year,…

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FICValdivia pays tribute to history, resistance, and experimentation in its 30th edition

Kathleen Collins, Mabel Itzcovich, The Victor Jara Collective, and José Rodríguez Soltero are the creators we will get to know better in this version of the festival. A tribute to Max Linder and the celebration of 50 years of Touki Bouki and 100 years of Our Hospitality complement this traditional section of the Valdivian event.…

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30th FICValdivia Announces Opening Film

Mudos Testigos, the posthumous picture by Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina, jointly produced and completed by Jerónimo Atehortúa, will be the opening film of the 30th edition of the Valdivia International Film Festival. Film director Luis Ospina passed away a couple of weeks before the 25th FICValdivia, and on the opening day of that year’s festival,…

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FICValdivia celebrates 30 years with anniversary program of Chilean and Latin American filmmakers

Organized by Universidad Austral de Chile, produced by the Valdivia Cultural Center for Film Promotion, and convened by the Great City of Valdivia and the Los Rios Regional Government, FICVALDIVIA has the objective of offering Chilean and foreign filmmakers a space for dissemination and competition, along with promoting national and international audiovisual productions of artistic…

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Vladimir Léon, “In my film, there are elements and clues to understand the present.”

Author of My Dear Spies, Best International Feature in 2020, the Russian director based in France had an interesting exchange with the audience, where he spoke about his documentary, family secrets, and the current situation in Russia. His visit is part of an homage FICValdivia paid to the award-winners that two years ago could not…

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Erotic VHS programmer Hernán Panessi: “The format has to do with the series’ success.”

One of the most heated and enthusiastic sections at FICValdivia takes us back to the times of analog video, and in this 29th edition, it has recovered forgotten titles, including a strange sexual thriller starring Nicolas Cage.  Argentine journalist Hernán Panessi is a specialist in pop culture, various rarities, and B movies. The author of…

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29th Valdivia International Film Festival brings cinema, music, dialogues, and family films this weekend

From a tribute to Violeta Parra, to the return of Ultraman, passing through a debate on the link between cinema and television, the agenda is packed, in this new edition of FICValdivia.  Valdivia, October 14. FICValdivia returned to in-person activity, in a 29th edition that is currently underway, to great success, in Los Ríos Region.…

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