For years now, experimental cinema, video art and the most adventurous independent cinema have been available to the public. The Buenos Aires Unusual Film Festival It is the cinephile meeting point where the most extravagant and unusual films of independent cinema can be seen on the big screen.
Created by Silvia RomeroWith Fabian Sancho, the event celebrates its seventeenth edition. The programming is divided into curious competitive contests that give the viewer an indication of what kind of film they are going to enjoy: “Exquisite Miscellaneous”, “Urban Perspectives” and “Risk Zone”, are some of the denominations where they can be seen, with various feature films and short films, different themes and genres.
Added to this proposal is the Official Fictional Feature Film and Medium Film Competition and the Official Documentary Competition, in which the films voted by the Jury will receive their corresponding award. The delivery of awards also has its quality according to the meeting, the statuettes awarded are “golden pigs” that each winner, from their respective category, will obtain along with their corresponding diploma.
“We receive a lot of material, what is taken into account is the production method, and if they were made by hand. We prioritize the films that had less screen”, explains the programmer Fabian Sancho, and adds: “The festival is a party. We find films that, due to their form of production or theme, differ from a certain way of seeing cinema. They are films that are not going to be seen in a shopping cinema. That is why the unusual title is not the common premiere of the week.”
“bleeding peach” by Claudio Santorelli, “the order” by Gabriel De Piero and Sebastian Buttafuoco, “The memory of water” by Gabriel Pineiro, “the happy ones“Marco Ernesto Rossi,”the invented” by Leo Basilico, Nicolás Longinotti and Pablo Rodríguez Pandolfi, “paranoid” by Gustavo Chapa, “Small town” by Alejo Di Paola and “Vanilla” by Valeria Rowinski and Gerard Marcó de Más, are the films that will compete in the official competition.
“Every year we see the material and as it is a competitive festival we offer “playful” contests so that it is easy for the juries to select the films they like. Once the festival is over, we try to ensure that the films that participated circulate in other spaces”, explains Fabian Sancho, and adds: “In 17 editions of the festival, what has changed is the quantity. When we started, in Borges Cultural Center, the production was on VHS. With technological evolution, the selection of material multiplied exponentially”.
This time the festival will be held, from Thursday 20 to Sunday 30 October, in three venues: Gaumont Cinema (Av. Rivadavia 1635 – CABA), San Martin Cultural Center (Sarmiento 1551 – CABA) and Cultural Space of the Library of the National Congress (Alsina 1835 – CABA). Entrance is free and open
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