The Mar del Plata International Film Festival is already underway

He started the Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Argentina), the only class A in all of Latin America, although over the years it was devalued in a surprising way. This time, there are a total of 197 films from 32 countries, in this XXVI edition of this festival that will culminate on Sunday, November 13.

For the highest award, the Astor Piazzolla award, 13 films from Argentina, Chile, Switzerland, Holland, Russia, Poland, France, Singapore, Iran, the United Kingdom and the United States compete, among them 'Faust', by Alexandre Sokurov, awarded with the Golden Lion in Venice.

Meanwhile, the jury is made up of the Argentine film historian and critic Fernando Martín Peña, the Mexican director Mariana Chenillo and the directors James Gunn, the Chilean Matías Bize and the Polish Jacek Bromski.

Among the guests, Friday will be Willem Dafoe, who will give a talk and is also the protagonist of "A Woman", a film directed by his wife, the Italian Giada Colagrande.

Yesterday, the British participated Alex Cox (in the image), director of the cult films "Repo Man" (1984) and "Sid and Nancy" (1986), which chronicled the life of former Sex Pistols bassist Sid Viciuos and his girlfriend. «Now punk is a way of dressing but at that time it had a revolutionary intention, we wanted to destroy the system and on its ruins build another«Said the tall Briton.

«It is better to make cheap movies than to have to sell your rights to the big Hollywood companies«, Sentenced Cox.


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