The Festival’s programming coordinator, Guillermo Olivares, was invited to participate, as part of the Belt and Road Film Festival Alliance, a network that brings together 55 members from 48 countries. To encourage the circulation, promotion and dissemination of Chilean cinema, FICValdivia was present at the latest version of the Shanghai International Film Festival, part of…
DetailsValdivia, May 30, 2024. The Tributes section includes focus retrospectives devoted to Cuban filmmaker Nicolás Guillén Landrián, to American director Sara Kathryn Arledge, to the Palestine Film Unit, and to the Cooperativa Cine Marginal, along with the screening of Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future, a film co-directed by Colombian authors Marta Rodríguez and…
DetailsValdivia International Film Festival adds new category to 2024 call for entries and announces Pepe as opening film FICValdivia adds the Chilean Audiovisual Students Short Film Competition, as a new competitive category. The Dominican feature Pepe, by Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias, recent winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at Berlinale, will…
DetailsDuring the occasion, the Pudú Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Babi Salas and her son Pablo Salas, for their contribution to audiovisual record and dissemination during the dictatorship. El que Baila Pasa, by Carlos Araya Diaz, collected best picture in the Chilean Feature category. Malquerida, by Tana Gilbert won the Audience Award and the…
DetailsThe opening ceremony was hosted by actress Mariana Loyola and included the surprise participation of Fernando Solís, the iconic voice of FICValdivia, who came in person for the occasion. A tribute was paid to eleven Latin American filmmakers for the 30th anniversary of the festival. The short film Color (1955), by Uruguayan experimental director Lidia…
DetailsThe 2023 edition had an attendance of almost 40,000 spectators, with a total of 187 films screened. Performances by Tommy Rey, MC Millaray, Bloque Depresivo, and three local bands convened a total attendance of 14,500 people, during the 3 days of the CINEMAS section, organized by the festival. For a detailed account of the 2023…
DetailsProbably, the most eagerly awaited Chilean film screening outside the competitive sections of the 30th FICValdivia was Socialist Realism, by Raúl Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento, which premiered at Universidad Austral de Chile’s Aula Magna. Ruiz shot the film between 1972 and 1973, but it was left unfinished after the director’s departure to France. It was…
DetailsOrganized 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,…
DetailsKathleen 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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