CINEMA AND AUDIOVISUALS NOV.13 > 20
ZINEBI. The 62 International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao This year’s 62nd edition of ZINEBI will have a hybrid format. In addition to screening the films in cinemas (chiefly in Azkuna Zentroa) as always, it will also have virtual slant to bring the Festival to the public via the Filmin and Festhome platforms, i.e., the 60 shorts competing in the Official Section-International Competition; the 9 feature films competing for the ZIFF-Zinebi First Film award, all premiering in the Spanish State; and last but not least, 8 of the 9 documentaries competing in the BEAUTIFUL DOCS section. Standing out among the latter are the Spanish State premieres of the latest works by established filmmakers such as Ulrike Ottinger, Frederick Wiseman and Jia Zhangke. This year’s edition honorary awards acknowledge the career and artistic dimension of the Belgians Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, whose fiction is applauded by critics and public worldwide. ZINEBI is awarding them the Mikeldi of Honour and will screen their first documentaries in Azkuna Zentroa. These include the restored version of one of their first works, Le chant du rossignol (1977), unscreened to date in the Spanish State.
THE 62ND EDITION OF ZINEBI WILL BE DIFFERENT FROM ALL THE PREVIOUS ONES. IT WILL BE A HYBRID EDITION WITH FILM SCREENINGS IN CINEMAS AS WELL AS SEVERAL SCREENINGS AND ACTIVITIES VIA ONLINE PLATFORMS. November 13 > 20 Friday > Friday Golem Alhóndiga Cinemas More information: zinebi.eus
Mikeldis of Honour will also be awarded to 2 pioneers in Bizkaian films during the 80s and 90s, namely, the director, screenwriter and film editor Ana Murugarren; and writer, screenwriter and producer María Eugenia Salaverri. Furthermore, ZINEBI is shining the spotlight on shorts this year as a meeting point of some of today’s most interesting film-makers. To this end, it is presenting out-of-competition the latest works of Luca Guadagnino, Alice Rohrwacher and Jafar Panahi, among others, in a session called Glimpses-Distirak.
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