{"id":1588,"date":"2021-10-13T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zinebi.eus\/en\/news\/nueve-largometrajes-dirigidos-por-cineastas-noveles-competiran-por-el-premio-ziff-zinebi-first-film"},"modified":"2021-10-21T11:19:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T11:19:34","slug":"nine-feature-films-directed-by-up-and-coming-filmmakers-to-compete-for-the-ziff-zinebi-first-film-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zinebi.eus\/en\/news\/nine-feature-films-directed-by-up-and-coming-filmmakers-to-compete-for-the-ziff-zinebi-first-film-prize","title":{"rendered":"NINE FEATURE FILMS DIRECTED BY UP-AND-COMING FILMMAKERS TO COMPETE FOR THE ZIFF \u2013 ZINEBI FIRST FILM PRIZE"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>As part of its Official Selection, the ZIFF \u2013 ZINEBI First Film International Contest is for films that have never been previously seen in Spain and which will be competing for a prize of \u20ac12,000. <\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Featured in festivals such as Berlin, Venice, Locarno and Sundance, 7 of the 9 selected featured films are directed by women.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>The festival will hold its 63<sup>rd<\/sup> edition from 12 to 19 November.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>ZINEBI \u2013 International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao<\/strong>, organised by Bilbao City Council, has announced the titles of the <strong>nine feature films from 12 countries that will compete in the Official Selection \u2013ZIFF \u2013 ZINEBI First Film International Contest<\/strong>, that is being held for the sixth time<strong>.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe members of <strong>international jury <\/strong>for this section of ZINEBI 63 are the German filmmaker and visual artist <strong>Helena Wittmann <\/strong>(who received special jury recognition at the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> ZIFF, in 2017; the Catalan cultural journalist and film critic <strong>Paula Arantzazu Ruiz<\/strong>, and the Italian author and film programme<strong> Eva Sangiorgi, <\/strong>\u00a0the artistic director of Viennale, the Vienna International Film Festival, and also founder of the Mexican festival FICUNAM and head of the Curatorship Department at the Elias Querejeta Zinema Eskola.\r\n<div class=\"fake-h3\"><h6>\u201cLA CHICA NUEVA\u201d<\/h6><\/div>\r\nWinner at Cin\u00e9latino \u2013 Rencontres de Toulouse (France) thanks to\u00a0 \u201c<strong><em>La chica nueva\u201d<\/em><\/strong> (2021), the Argentinean <strong>Micaela Gonzalo<\/strong> had already presented her earlier work, the short film \u201c<em>Toda mi alegr\u00eda\u201d<\/em> (2018) at the Berlinale. For her debut feature film, Gonzalo chose the city of Rio Grande, on Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, as the setting for the story of Jimena (Mora Arenillas), a young women who travels to the far south of Argentina in search of her half-brother (Rafael Federman). With his help, she manages to put her life back on track against the backdrop of a complex economic crisis.\r\n<div class=\"fake-h3\"><h6>\u201cFAYA DAYI\u201d<\/h6><\/div>\r\nMexican by birth, but raised in Ethiopia and living in New York,\u00a0 <strong>Jessica Beshir<\/strong> makes her feature debut with \u201c<strong><em>Faya Dayi\u201d<\/em><\/strong> (2021), a documentary that was practically shot in full in the highlands of Ethiopia. \u00a0Growing khat, a stimulant leaf that is chewed and has been traditionally used in the Arab countries of the Horn of Africa, has become a very lucrative business there. \u00a0Midway between myth and reality, \u201c<em>Faya Dayi\u201d<\/em> returns to the tapestry of the Harar Region that\u00a0 Beshir had already portrayed in her short film <em>Hairat<\/em> (2017).\r\n\r\nAfter its premiere at Sundance, and described by the critics as \u201chypnotic, immersive and very beautiful\u201d, \u201c<em>Faya Dayi\u201d<\/em> won the Best Documentary Award at\u00a0 Visions du R\u00e9el (Switzerland) and the Audience Award at Hot Docs (Canada). Last month, she also took part in the 50<sup>th<\/sup> New Directors\/New Films at the Lincoln Center in New York.\r\n<div class=\"fake-h3\"><h6>\u201cFREIZEIT OR: THE OPPOSITE OF DOING NOTHING\u201d<\/h6><\/div>\r\nFive young Germans about to come of age are the main characters of \u201c<strong><em>FREIZEIT oder:<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>das Gegenteil von Nichtstun\u201d<\/em><\/strong> (2021), the documentary directed by <strong>Caroline Pitzen.<\/strong> She shows a youth in Berlin of 2018 that seems to be the direct opposite of the stereotype. They wander through the city and wonder about their lives in the future. Always stimulating discussion and debate, the conversations of those young people are about everyday sexism, individual and collective responsibility or gentrification. They believe that what is happening around them is far from being as it should, but are optimistic about the future.\r\n\r\nPitzen presented her debut film at the\u00a0 Berlinale Critics Week and, subsequently, it was screened at\u00a0 Cin\u00e9ma du R\u00e9el (France).\r\n<div class=\"fake-h3\"><h6>\u201cLOS FUNDADORES\u201d<\/h6><\/div>\r\nBetween the fiction and the reality of young people from Tijuana,\u00a0 \u201c<strong><em>Los fundadores\u201d<\/em><\/strong> (2021), the d\u00e9but of <strong>Diego Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong>, was awarded the Silver Puma\u00a0 for the best Mexican film at the last FICUNAM (Mexico) and, subsequently, received special jury recognition at FID Marseille (France).\r\n\r\nThe main characters are Diego, Andr\u00e9s and Ren\u00e9e, university students who, despite their personal effort, are not developing professionally, partly due to the funds for their university being suspiciously diverted for other purposes.\r\n<div class=\"fake-h3\"><h6>\u201cLANGUAGE LESSONS\u201d<\/h6><\/div>\r\nCommercially premiered a month ago, the d\u00e9but as a director of the\u00a0 American actor of Cuban descent <strong>Natalie Morales<\/strong>, \u201c<strong><em>Language Lessons<\/em><\/strong>\u201c (2021) was screened at the last \u00a0edition of the Berlinale. It went on to win the Audience Award at the Austin\u00a0 SXSW Film Festival (Texas). It features Morales herself and Mark Duplass, the star of US indie films.\r\n\r\nDescribed by \u201cVariety\u201d as \u201ca platonic romantic comedy for the age of Zoom\u201d, \u201c<em>Language Lessons\u201d<\/em> tells the unexpected shift in the relationship between Adam and his Spanish teacher, who Adam\u2019s husband hired to teach him weekly classes online.\r\n<div class=\"fake-h3\"><h6>\u201cOUR ETERNAL SUMMER\u201d<\/h6><\/div>\r\nEndorsed by the Special Jury\u00a0 Award for the <em>Cineasti del Presente<\/em> at the last Locarno Festival (Switzerland), the French filmmaker <strong>\u00c9milie Aussel<\/strong> is presenting her first fiction feature film \u201c<strong><em>L\u2019\u00e9t\u00e9, l\u2019\u00e9ternit\u00e9\u201d<\/em><\/strong> (2021). Just like all her earlier short films, the film stars young people around 18 years old, \u00a0who, in this case, are nonchalantly getting ready to spend the summer at the coast. Aussel introduces us to this group of young people and adolescents, who are forced to face the best and worst in a summer that will mark their lives.\r\n<div class=\"fake-h3\"><h6>\u201cRECONCILIATION\u201d<\/h6><\/div>\r\nThe obstacles to settle disputes and conflicts between families, but above all the way of overcoming them by means of a pathway agreed between the warring parties, are the main theme of the feature documentary <strong>\u201c<em>Odpuscanje\u201d<\/em><\/strong> (2021), directed by the Slovenian filmmaker Marija Zidar. It was premiered in the Netx:Wave section of \u00a0CPH:DOX, the Danish documentary film festival.\r\n\r\nSet in the mountains of Northern Albania, this Balkan coproduction (involving Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo)\u00a0 focuses on the Kanun, the medieval code that is more powerful than the law in rural areas and is based on the principle of\u00a0 \u201cblood for blood\u201d.\r\n<div class=\"fake-h3\"><h6>\u201cROCK BOTTOM RISER\u201d<\/h6><\/div>\r\nThe Portuguese-American director <strong>Fern Silva<\/strong>, who already competed 2017 in the ZINEBI Official Selection with his short film \u201c<em>Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder\u201d<\/em>, debuts at ZIFF with his non-fiction film premiered in the <em>Encounters<\/em> section at the last Berlinale. \u00a0\u201c<strong><em>Rock Bottom Riser\u201d<\/em> (2021)<\/strong> received special jury recognition there and was later selected to take part in the\u00a0 French Cin\u00e9ma du R\u00e9el festival, and the Rotterdam Internal Festival (Netherlands) and IndieLisboa (Portugal).\r\n\r\nHe starts with the lava flows from the different volcanoes on the islands of Havaii. \u00a0Silva builds a complex tale of life in such a remote place and how it could change in the foreseeable future with the construction of the largest telescope in the world on the archipelago\u2019s most sacred mount, Mauna Kea, the imposing inactive volcano.\r\n<div class=\"fake-h3\"><h6>\u201cTHE TRAIN PASSED BY\u201d<\/h6><\/div>\r\nAfter her world debut in \u201c<strong><em>The Train Passed By\u201d<\/em><\/strong> (<em>\ud76c\uc218<\/em>, 2021), the Korean filmmaker <strong>Kam Jeong-won<\/strong> has chosen ZINEBI for the international premiere of her first film, presented at the Jeonju International Festival in April. \u00a0The film describes how Heesu, a 27-year-old woman who has only ever worked at an industrial complex in Daegu, sets off on a journey (which will not be for pleasure) for the first time in her life.\r\n\r\nYet again this year, the prizes of the Official Selection \u2013 ZIFF ZINEBI First Film will be <strong>awarded during the closing ceremony of the 63<sup>rd<\/sup> ZINEBI <\/strong>\u2013 International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao at the Arriaga Theatre. <strong>The Festival will hold its 63rd edition from 12 to 19 November.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe films competing in this section are in the running for the ZIFF Grand Award, worth \u20ac12,000 (to be shared equality between the producer of the winning film and its director), and for the Youth Jury Prize, worth \u20ac2,000, which is only open to \u00a0university and film school students of the Basque Country.\r\n<div class=\"fake-h3\"><h6>SOCIAL MEDIA<\/h6><\/div>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Bilbao Udala<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bilbao.udala\/\">FACEBOOK<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bilbao_udala\">TWITTER<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bilbao_udala\/?hl=es\">INSTAGRAM<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Bilbao Kultura<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCjelp0XKWloJPTLe8aS-Lxg\">YOUTUBE<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BilbaoKultura\/\">FACEBOOK<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bilbaokultura\">TWITTER<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bilbaokultura\/\">INSTAGRAM <\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>ZINEBI: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ZinebiBilbao\">YOUTUBE<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zinebifestival\">FACEBOOK<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZinebiFest\">TWITTER<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zinebifilmfest\/\">INSTAGRAM<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its Official Selection, the ZIFF \u2013 ZINEBI First Film International Contest is for films that have never been previously seen in Spain and which will be competing for a prize of \u20ac12,000. 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