The San Sebastian Film Festival has announced that it will organize a day of action in support of Argentine cinema during this year’s 72nd edition, which takes place from September 20 to 28.
The Spanish festival has partnered with the Argentine Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences and producer Gabriel Hochbaum, along with Argentine production companies, filmmakers and journalists to organize the event.
The solidarity day will take place on September 24 and coincide with the official selection premiere of the film by Argentinian filmmaker Diego Lerman It is the man who uses his platos voladores. The festival will also host a cocktail event with the Argentine delegation, who will gather on the steps of the Kursaal Auditorium before the screening of Traslados. Released tomorrow in Argentina, the non-fiction film directed by Nicolás Gil Lavedra will have its international premiere in San Sebastian and focus on the so-called death flights, one of the popular execution techniques used by Argentina’s last military dictatorship. The screening is accompanied by an introduction and lecture by the film team, led by director and producer Zoe Hochbaum.
This year’s San Sebastian Festival will screen 16 films produced wholly or partly in Argentina in the Official Selection, New Directors, Horizontes Latinos, Zabaltegi-Tabakalera and Movies for Kids sections.. The industry section of the festival will also feature six Argentinian projects selected for the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, two works in progress at WIP Latam and one Ikusmira Berriak project with the participation of an Argentinian production company.
Argentina’s film industry has been in freefall since March, when the government of Javier Milei, the country’s far-right leader, implemented highly controversial plans to cut all government funding to the National Institute of Film and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA), the country’s national film industry. country, to stop. body.
In an official public notice published on Tuesday, Milei’s Ministry of Human Capital said it had discovered a $4 million shortfall in the INCAA budget, partly financed by the Ministry of Finance, and that as a result it would transition to cutbacks by suspending all funding to the institute.
