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The 22 Lima Film Festival to be held from August 3 to 11 in the Peruvian capital, will for the first time have a space dedicated to audiovisual proposals in virtual reality, announced today [19659002] Organized by the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) and the [BBA] Continental Foundation BBVA the festival will offer a selection of over 400 films in its most first, between feature films and fiction shorts, as well as documentaries.
To this proposal will be added seven audiovisual projects including those developed by the Colombian multimedia artist Carlos Franklin to be shown at the festival "Las Meninas de Velázquez" "The Temptation of San Antonio del Bosco" and "Las Bodas of Cana de Veronese", sum n a new sensory experience at the festival
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Under the slogan of "Mira con Libertad" and a graphic line that includes an image of a sky with cloud-shaped popcorn , the new edition of the festival will appeal to expand its audience, "so that it is not a party reserved for connoisseurs" badured Marco Mühletaler, general director of the festival.
To do this, they will distribute the films in over 70 theaters across the country in addition to a traveling show that will bring together a program of over 36 Feature Films and 245 short films which will be screened for free in 15 cities of the country.
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In this edition, the festival will pay tribute to three figures of Latin American cinema: Fernando "Pino" Solanas, prestigious Argentine documentary filmmaker; Paulo Branco, Brazilian producer who worked with directors such as Wim Winders and Manoel de Oliveira, among others; and the Peruvian Pili Flores-Guerra famous director of photography
Curatorship of the festival, which fell this year in the hands of Peruvian filmmaker Josué Méndez director of ] "Days of Santiago" and "Gods", gave priority, as he pointed out, "to a selection of films that express, from the title, what we're going find in the movie. "
this edition will be that the juries of the competition sections will be presided over for the first time exclusively by women.
The Lima Festival will present the fiction and documentary competition, with categories including 18 and 11 Latin America
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In section "Made in Peru", for its part, three fiction films and three documentaries will be in competition
Section "Galas" ] will present Brazilian "O Great Circo Místico " of Carlos Diegues and "Plaza París" of Lucía Murat ] Nicaragua "500 años", from Pamela Yates; ; Argentina "All year is Christmas", by Nestro Frenkel
In addition, "The Good Master", of Olivier Ayache- Vidal; mexicana "No lost eternity", by Daniela Rea Gómez, and the Chilean "Y de pronto, el amanecer", by Silvio Caiozzi.
The festival will also count with the now clbadic section "Around the world in 8 days", where ten films will be screened, among them, "Papa Francisco" of Wim Wenders; "The Woman" Bjorn Runge ; "Animal" by Armando Bo; "The Believer", of Cedric Kahn ; "God raises them and they … (coexist)", of Fabrice Eboué and "Central Airport THF", of Karim Ainouz; The film festival will also feature forums, meetings with directors and a sample of short films made as part of the workshop dictated by filmmaker Werner Herzog during his visit to Peru last May
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