ZINEBI \u2013 International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, organised by Bilbao Town Hall, has announced the nine feature films from nine countries (United States, Germany, Netherlands, Ukraine, Poland, China, Chile, France and Euskadi) competing in the Official Section \u2013 International Competition ZIFF \u2013 ZINEBI First Film, in its eighth round in 2023.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The films chosen will be competing for the ZIFF Grand Award<\/strong>, 12,000 \u20ac (the largest amount in the entire Festival), and for the Young Jury Prize (UPV\/EHU University of the Basque Country), to be decided by a panel of film and audiovisual students from universities and other educational centres all over the State (including, for the first time, students from Madrid\u2019s ECAM Cinematographic and Audiovisual School), in the amount of 2,000 \u20ac.<\/p>\r\n\r\n This year the international jury panel for this section of ZINEBI 65 will feature Colombian programmer, filmmaker and producer Diana Bustamante<\/strong> (who was given a special mention by last year\u2019s ZIFF jury for Our Movie<\/em>), the head of programming at Arsenal \u2013 Berlin Cinema and Videoart Institute Birgit Kohler<\/strong>, and Spanish filmmaker now resident in the United States Roc\u00edo Mesa<\/strong>, the director of Secaderos<\/em> (2022).<\/p>\r\n\r\n The films chosen will be screened at ZINEBI for the first time in the State.<\/p>\r\n\r\n 1. A la sombra de la luz | Documentary<\/strong> 2. Chestnut | Fiction<\/strong> 3. A Good Place (Ein sch\u00f6ner Ort) | Fiction<\/strong> 4. In the Rearview (Sk\u0105d dok\u0105d) | Documentary<\/strong> 5. Milk (Melk) | Fiction<\/strong> 6. Playland | Documentary<\/strong> 7. A Song Sung Blue (\u5c0f\u767d\u8239) | Fiction<\/strong> 8. What Doesn\u2019t Float | Fiction<\/strong> 9. Zarata | Fiction \u2013 Documentary<\/strong> ZINEBI \u2013 International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, organised by Bilbao Town Hall, has announced the nine feature films from nine countries (United States, Germany, Netherlands, Ukraine, Poland, China, Chile, France and Euskadi) competing in the Official Section \u2013 International Competition ZIFF \u2013 ZINEBI First Film, in its eighth round in 2023. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zinebi.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zinebi.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zinebi.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zinebi.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zinebi.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zinebi.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21352,"href":"https:\/\/zinebi.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21343\/revisions\/21352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zinebi.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zinebi.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zinebi.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zinebi.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\r\nIgnacia Merino Bustos & Isabel Reyes Bustos \u2013 Chile \u2013 66\u2019 \u2013 2023
\r\nPresented at the last Cannes Docs, and then premiered worldwide at the Sheffield Doc\/Fest<\/strong> \u2013 the UK\u2019s main documentary festival \u2013 the debut of these two female Chilean directors portray the daily round in Charr\u00faa, a location in the Biob\u00edo region with the many disadvantages of living beside one of Chile\u2019s largest electrical power stations. Merino and Reyes shun the language of protest to depict the daily lives of this community as a sensory experience. <\/p>\r\n\r\n
\r\nJac Cron \u2013 USA 87 \u2013 2023
\r\nAt the last Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco<\/strong> (USA), New York filmmaker Jac Cron presented his opera prima after graduating in Cinema, Finance and Astrophysics at the University of Drexel, and directing a few short films. The cast of Chestnut<\/em>, a project consistent with the rest of his background addressing the LGTBIQ+ community, is led by actresses Natalia Dyer, one of the stars of the Stranger Things<\/em> series (2016-2023), and Rachel Keller, from the Tokyo Vice series<\/em> (2022). The former plays a recently graduated student during the summer after university, trapped in a relationship with a man and a woman.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\r\nKatharina Huber \u2013 Germany \u2013 108\u2019 \u2013 2023
\r\nGerman Katharina Huber \u2013 director of the short film The Natural Death of a Mouse <\/em>(2020) \u2013 took the prize for best up-and-coming director at the last Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland) with this obscure uchronia set in a dark oppressive rural environment which seems to be on the verge of disappearance. For the time being, people seem to be fainting away and the radio is constantly sending messages about the imminent launch of a space transporter, which it seems the protagonists (C\u00e9line de Gennaro<\/strong> and another Locarno prizewinner, Clara Schwinning<\/strong>) are going to miss.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\r\nMaciek Hamela \u2013 Poland \/ France \/ Ukraine \u2013 84\u2019 \u2013 2023
\r\nTurning a personal experience into a film. That is what Polish director Maciek Hamela has managed to do with his first film, presented in Cannes<\/strong> as testimony \u2013 in the form of a documentary \u2013 of the trips he made in his van to take Ukrainian refugees to safety in Poland. Along with four camera operators (in the course of several trips), Hamela conveys the up-close-and-personal experiences of those fleeing an unexpected and unfair war. It took the Jury\u2019s Grand Award at the last Sheffield Doc\/Fest<\/strong>, two awards at Millennium Docs Against Gravity<\/strong> (Poland), and the prize for best Ukrainian documentary at the Odessa International Festival<\/strong> (Ukraine). It is also one of the 14 nominees for the European Film Academy\u2019s award for Best Documentary of the year. <\/p>\r\n\r\n
\r\nStefanie Kolk \u2013 Netherlands \u2013 96\u2019 \u2013 2023
\r\nPremiered in September at the Venice Film Festival\u2019s Giornate degli Autori<\/strong>, the first feature film by Stefanie Kolk (director of short films such as Clan<\/em> (2016) or Eyes on the Road<\/em> (2019), among others) explores the ties between a mother and her dead baby. Produced by Lemming Film, it stars Frieda Barnhard, one of the most promising Dutch actresses of her generation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\r\nGeorden West \u2013 USA \/ United Kingdom \u2013 72\u2019 \u2013 2023
\r\nThe debut by Californian artist and filmmaker Georden West is quite an atypical biopic: the star is not a person, but Playland Caf\u00e9 instead, Boston\u2019s oldest gay bar (it opened in 1937 and closed down in 1998). A quarter of a century after it was demolished, halfway between fiction and documentary, West\u2019s interdisciplinary film combines representations, archive material, real testimonies, dancing, opera and performances. It was a contender at the Rotterdam International Film Festival<\/strong> (Netherlands) for the Tiger Award.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\r\nZihan Geng \u2013 China \u2013 92\u2019 \u2013 2023
\r\nLiu Xian, fifteen, moves in with her father while her mother goes abroad to work. There she meets Mingmei Soon, her father\u2019s stepdaughter, a young woman who fascinates her. The opera prima by Peking director Zihan Geng was premiered at the Cannes Festival\u2019s Filmmakers\u2019 Fortnight<\/strong>, and in July it took the Grand Award at the Biarritz International Festival.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\r\nLuca Balser \u2013 USA \u2013 69\u2019 \u2013 2023
\r\nThis independent US production had its commercial premiere in New York only a few weeks ago. It stars Pauline Chalamet<\/strong> \u2013 from The Sex Lives of College Girls<\/em> series (2021-2022), who is also the producer \u2013 and was screened at the US festivals Lighthouse<\/strong>, in Long Beach, and Nashville<\/strong>. Luca Balser \u2013 co-owner of independent production company GUMMY Films, with previous editing experience \u2013 makes his debut in feature films in this series of urban vignettes with a rebellious kaleidoscopic portrayal of New York society far removed from common locations and clich\u00e9s.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\r\nTamara Garc\u00eda Iglesias \u2013 Euskadi \u2013 62\u2019 \u2013 2023
\r\nGipuzkoa producer Tamara Garc\u00eda Iglesias makes her debut as director of this feature film, premiered at the 34th FIDMarseille<\/strong>. Produced by Atekaleun and starring Ainara Gurrutxaga, Erika Olaizola and Jabier Barandiaran<\/strong>, Zarata<\/em> is a film about the way in which private life affects art, with a particular focus on the way to make a film, which can also be \u201canother way of wielding power\u201d.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"