| 17-25 September 2004 |
| 52nd FESTIVAL PREVIEW |
The Festival made the official presentation of its 52nd year at
its traditional meeting with friends from the press and the world
of culture on Friday 7 May, during which it announced some of
its proposals for the forthcoming month of September and revealed
the posters representing the different sections.
The official poster emerged in tribute to the centenary of a person
whom, although principally connected to the world of painting,
actively collaborated with cinema. The result of his collaboration
with the master of masters Alfred Hitchcock was one of the most
disturbing oneiric sequences in the history of cinema. The person
in question is Dali and the unforgettable scene from Spellbound.
Below is a preview of some of the year's novelties and our usual
proposals:
Retrospective: ANTHONY MANN
Considered as the author of some of the most beautiful westerns
in the history of film, Anthony Mann demonstrated his skill in
all of cinema’s classic genres (thrillers, musical comedies,
war and historical films). But despite this, many of his masterpieces
are still unknown to the general public. This season will introduce
us to a complex, personal author, who outgrew the ranking of “classic
moviemaker par excellence".
Retrospective:
INCORRECT
A selection of movies that ventured to challenge the bourgeois
social principles still considered as being in bad taste by the
single thinking of the politically correct. Advocated by Michael
Moore, Dusan Makavejev, John Waters, Pedro Almodóvar, the
Marx Brothers, Luis Buñuel, Trey Paker, Ulrich Seidl, Todd
Solondz, among others...
Besides,
- The Official Section features the very
best global cinema, unscreened at any other festival, with
winners being chosen by a renowned international jury.
- Zabaltegi:
- Festivals’ Top
Festivals’ Top, a showcase for the best films from
other festivals. The audiences vote for the winner of
the TCM Audience Award, carrying a cash prize of 30,000
euros for the Spanish importer of the winning movie.
- New Directors
Unscreened movies competing for the Altadis-New Directors
Award carrying 90,000 euros.
- Horizontes Latinos, divided into three
parts:
- Horizontes Selection:
Latin American films never previously released in Spain.
A jury will confer the Horizontes award of €18.000.
- Made in Spain:
A carefully made selection of the year’s most interesting
Spanish movies, with English subtitles.
- Films in Progress / Cinéma en Construction:
In collaboration with Rencontres Cinémas d’Amérique
Latine in Toulouse, this section offers Latin American
films at the post-production stage the opportunity to
be presented and obtain funding.
- Velodrome
Big releases of much awaited films will take place on the
enormous 400 m2 screen in Anoeta Velodrome, disguised as a
spectacular film theatre during the Festival. Its seating
for 3,000 means that the audience can share moments of unforgettable
emotion.
This is also the special venue at which over 25,000 school
kids discover, some for the first time, the magic of cinema
the big way.
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