{"id":5942,"date":"2019-10-06T11:32:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T14:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ficvaldivia.cl\/?p=5942"},"modified":"2019-10-06T11:33:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T14:33:29","slug":"valdivia-international-film-festival-announces-26th-edition-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ficvaldivia.cl\/en\/valdivia-international-film-festival-announces-26th-edition-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Valdivia International Film Festival announces 26th Edition program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>FICValdivia will take place between October 7 and 13.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>In this version of the Festival: 6 competitions, conferences, music, and a comprehensive sample of all-time classics, and the most compelling in contemporary cinema.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the attendance of important authorities and personalities from the cultural and political circles in Valdivia and the Los R\u00edos Region, the official launch of the 26<sup>th<\/sup> Valdivia International Film Festival was held this last Tuesday September 24. FICValdivia will take place this coming October 7 to the 13.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the main campus at Universidad Austral de Chile, festival director Ra\u00fal Camargo, along with Antonio Ruiz-Tagle, president of the Valdivia Cultural Center for Film Promotion, announced some of the most relevant news in this 2019 edition. Present at the event were Los R\u00edos regional intendant C\u00e9sar Asenjo, UACh Chancellor, Doctor \u00d3scar Galindo, and the Los R\u00edos Regional Ministry Secretary for Culture, Helmuth Palma, together with other authorities, where the <strong>festival poster<\/strong> was presented, along with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eJ2xSsLATCA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (abre en una nueva pesta\u00f1a)\">this year\u2019s commercial spot<\/a><\/strong>, which makes reference to the 60<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the fateful 1960 earthquake in Valdivia. That occurrence left a tragic toll, but also demonstrated the human capacity to overcome and work together to accomplish a common goal.\u00a0<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spot 26\u00ba FICValdivia 2019\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eJ2xSsLATCA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remembering this milestone, FICValdivia 2019 wants to emphasize that cinema is a collective endeavor, the result of many players\u2019 effort and passion \u2013 those that make and produce films; those that finance and distribute them; the authorities and institutions that believe that culture has a central role in our society and in human fulfillment; the programmers and critics; and of course the audiences that watch, listen to, experience, and dream about these movies.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order for this collective vision to carry on, FICValdivia persists in our tireless mission to appeal to progressively larger audiences, and to solidify our ties to the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2019 News<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the highlights for this year, and thanks to a contribution from the Los R\u00edos Regional Government, FICValdivia 26 resumes one of its most cherished activities by the community: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ficvaldivia.cl\/cinemas-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (abre en una nueva pesta\u00f1a)\">Cinem\u00e1s<\/a><\/strong>, the outdoor series of cinema and music that has always been celebrated by Valdivian audiences. The musical guests this time are more than up to the task of this relaunching, including singer-songwriter <strong>Camila Moreno<\/strong>, who is in the peak of her career, and popular bands <strong>Lucybell<\/strong> and <strong>Tomo Como Rey<\/strong>, that will liven the evenings in Valdivia, <strong>between Wednesday October 9, and Friday October 11<\/strong>.\u00a0<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along with this, the <strong>reopening of Teatro Cervantes<\/strong> will allow to relocate some FICValdivia activities to this renovated space, contributing to reanimate this representative city landmark. Among them, and thanks to an alliance with Asociaci\u00f3n de M\u00fasicos de Rock Valdivia (Valdivia Rock Musicians Association), who are celebrating their 20<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary, three classic films from the silent period will be set to live music.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Faithful to their vocation for interpreting society and providing a space to air their present desires and convictions, FICValdivia 2019 rekindles the spirit of its beginnings \u2013 that Valdivia Ecological Cinema-Video event that was born in 1994 \u2013 introducing a <strong>new series devoted to environmental cinema, and whose name is explicit, in terms of its motivation: Urgent.<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FICValdivia is full of cinematographic discoveries and scoops that will even surprise adept cinephiles, with countless Chilean, Latin American, and World premieres, in each one of its sections, including <strong>the latest movies by the great authors in contemporary cinema<\/strong>, such as Jo\u00e3o Nicolau, Nadav Lapid, Angela Schanelec, Federico Veiroj, Damien Manivel, Corneliu Porumboiu, Mart\u00edn Rejtman, Nicol\u00e1s Pereda, Deborah Stratman, Ben Rivers, Kevin Jerome Everson, Teddy Williams, Abbas Fahdel, Jos\u00e9 Luis Torres Leiva, Ignacio Ag\u00fcero, Alejandro Fern\u00e1ndez, and many more.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FICValdivia also pays tribute to some of the greatest filmmakers in movie history, in its <strong>Homage <\/strong>section: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (abre en una nueva pesta\u00f1a)\" href=\"https:\/\/ficvaldivia.cl\/miradas-cruzadas-sara-gomez-y-agnes-varda-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\">Agn\u00e8s Varda, Sara G\u00f3mez<\/a>, and Adolfas Mekas. This series will also feature a special program of Valdivian short films, the experimental videos that won the Juan Downey Contest at the BAM Media Arts Biennial, the commemoration of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (abre en una nueva pesta\u00f1a)\" href=\"https:\/\/ficvaldivia.cl\/50-anos-eloy-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\">50<\/a><sup><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (abre en una nueva pesta\u00f1a)\" href=\"https:\/\/ficvaldivia.cl\/50-anos-eloy-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\">th<\/a><\/sup><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (abre en una nueva pesta\u00f1a)\" href=\"https:\/\/ficvaldivia.cl\/50-anos-eloy-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\"> anniversary of the film <\/a><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (abre en una nueva pesta\u00f1a)\" href=\"https:\/\/ficvaldivia.cl\/50-anos-eloy-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eloy<\/a><\/em>, and the 60 years since the 1960 earthquake, with the documentary <em>La Respuesta<\/em>. We will also celebrate two cinematographic territories: the history of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (abre en una nueva pesta\u00f1a)\" href=\"https:\/\/ficvaldivia.cl\/comedia-negra-espanola-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish black comedy<\/a> (thanks to the support of Acci\u00f3n Cultural Espa\u00f1ola ACE), and the thematic diversity in contemporary French cinema, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/ficvaldivia.cl\/acid-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (abre en una nueva pesta\u00f1a)\">ACID<\/a> program (thanks to a contribution by Institut Fran\u00e7aise Chile).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the festival does not lose sight of its mass audiences and family moviegoers, and its program includes a broad sample appealing to the general public, young audiences, children, and local spectators. FICValdivia offers free admittance to its sections Youth\u2019s Feature Competition, Latin American Children\u2019s Short Film Competition, Homage, Retrospective Program, First Nations, Urgent, Nocturama, P\u00e1sate una Pel\u00edcula, and Cinem\u00e1s.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Program and latest announcement regarding our Official Selection<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can find the complete 2019 FICValdivia program on our website, including all the competing films in the <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (abre en una nueva pesta\u00f1a)\" href=\"https:\/\/ficvaldivia.cl\/seleccion-oficial-largometraje-internacional-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\">Official International Feature Selection<\/a><\/strong>, the<strong> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (abre en una nueva pesta\u00f1a)\" href=\"https:\/\/ficvaldivia.cl\/seleccion-oficial-largometraje-chileno-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\">Official Chilean Feature Selection<\/a><\/strong>, the <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (abre en una nueva pesta\u00f1a)\" href=\"https:\/\/ficvaldivia.cl\/seleccion-oficial-largometraje-juvenil-internacional-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\">Official International Youth\u2019s Feature Selection<\/a><\/strong>, the <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (abre en una nueva pesta\u00f1a)\" href=\"https:\/\/ficvaldivia.cl\/seleccion-oficial-cortometraje-latinoamericano-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\">Official Latin American Short Film Selection<\/a><\/strong>, and the<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ficvaldivia.cl\/seleccion-oficial-cortometraje-infantil-latinoamericano-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (abre en una nueva pesta\u00f1a)\">Official Latin American Children\u2019s Short Film Selection<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is still time \u2013 until October 1 \u2013 to get your Festival Pass, and watch all the films in FICValdivia\u2019s new edition, at preferred rates.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FICValdivia will take place between October 7 and 13. 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