{"id":25027,"date":"2023-11-10T08:19:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T08:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zinebi.eus\/en\/news\/zinebi-abre-su-65a-edicion-con-la-entrega-del-mikeldi-de-honor-a-felix-linares"},"modified":"2023-11-10T11:03:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T11:03:38","slug":"zinebi-abre-su-65a-edicion-con-la-entrega-del-mikeldi-de-honor-a-felix-linares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zinebi.eus\/en\/news\/zinebi-abre-su-65a-edicion-con-la-entrega-del-mikeldi-de-honor-a-felix-linares","title":{"rendered":"THE 65th ZINEBI FESTIVAL KICKS OFF WITH THE HONORARY MIKELDI AWARD FOR F\u00c9LIX LINARES"},"content":{"rendered":"ZINEBI \u2013 International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, organised by Bilbao Town Hall, is kicking off its 65th festival today at 19:30 h in the Arriaga Theatre, with the Honorary Mikeldi award for Bilbao film critic and journalist in recognition of a long professional career that goes well beyond his appearances on TV in ETB\u2019s famous La noche de\u2026 <\/em>programme. Throughout his career he was an active communicator of his interest in films and culture, on television and also on the radio (he worked at Radio Popular from 1966 to 1984, and on Radio Euskadi subsequently), in memorable programmes such as Pompas de papel<\/em> (which he co-directed alongside Kike Mart\u00edn) and Iflandia<\/em>.\r\n\r\n
FREDERICK WISEMAN<\/h6><\/div>\r\nOne of the unquestionable film documentary giants since the late 1960s is Frederick Wiseman, with whom ZINEBI is now settling \u201ca debt outstanding\u201d in view of his extensive artistic legacy, and so the 65th Festival has awarded him the second Honorary Mikeldi.\r\n\r\nHowever, Wiseman (Boston, USA, 1930) was finally unable to come to Bilbao after his health took a turn for the worse, and he had to be admitted to hospital in Boston. \r\n\r\nWiseman\u2019s debut as director was Titicut Follies (1967), an astounding documentary chronicle which to this day still elicits extreme audience reactions, and which was banned in a number of US states for several years. This maiden feature film \u2013 followed by Law and Order<\/em> (1969), Juvenile Court<\/em> (1973), Meat<\/em> (1976) and Near Death<\/em> (1989), among many others \u2013 is the best exponent of a work that served to extend the Utopian objective of direct cinema to transform the footage and sounds of films into something that those watching the films would be able to see and hear if they were present in the shooting location at the time.\r\n\r\nWiseman has always claimed that all his films are tinged with the subjectivity inherent to any cinematographic decision. His versatility as a director was also obvious, from the new perspective of the introduction of the utilisation of video, in many of his documentaries filmed in the 21st century, often applied to the painstaking description of rites, processes, customs of society or the daily functioning of institutions in the United States: State Legislature<\/em> (2007), At Berkeley <\/em>(2013), National Gallery<\/em> (2014), Ex Libris (2017), Monrovia, Indiana<\/em> (2018) or City Hall<\/em> (2020) \u2013 the last two of which were State-premiered at ZINEBI.\r\n\r\nThe 2023 ZINEBI Honorary Mikeldi prizewinner won a lifetime achievement Oscar in 2016, and his career has also been acclaimed in Cannes, Venice and Jihlava, among other festivals.\r\n\r\nIn the Beautiful Docs. An Overview of Documentaries from Over the World section, this time ZINEBI will be State-premiering Wiseman\u2019s latest production, Menus Plaisirs \u2013 Les Troisgros <\/em>(2023), the world premiere of which was staged in Venice just over a month ago. Another ZINEBI Honorary Mikeldi prizewinner, Albert Serra, will be at the presentation of the film at the Golem Alh\u00f3ndiga cinemas tomorrow, Saturday 11 November at 18:00 h.\r\n\r\n
OFFICIAL SECTION \u2013 INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION<\/h6><\/div>\r\nZINEBI 65\u2019s first session will be staged at the Arriaga Theatre after the Opening Gala, again hosted this year by Mar\u00eda Goiricelaya and Ane Pikaza (La Dram\u00e1tica Errante), with music by Vizcaya\u2019s Zabala (formerly of We Are Standard). The Basque short films competing in the Official Section will be screened during the event: Agrio<\/em> by David P\u00e9rez Sa\u00f1udo (fiction), La mujer ilustrada <\/em>by Isabel Herguera (animation), Todo lo cubre la sal<\/em> by Joana Moya (documentary), Memories of an Empty House<\/em> by Bruno Carnide (fiction), Ximinoa<\/em> by Itziar Leemans (fiction), Betiko gaua<\/em> by Eneko Sagardoy (fiction) and In a Nearby Field<\/em> by Ren Ebel and Laida Lertxundi. The last two are ZINEBI premieres in association with the FICX \u2013 Gij\u00f3n\/Xix\u00f3n International Film Festival, which has also added them to its schedule, starting on 17 November.\r\n\r\nThe following two sessions in the Official Section will be screened tomorrow, Saturday 11 November, at the Auditorium in Azkuna Zentroa \u2013 Alh\u00f3ndiga Bilbao. Among others, there will be screenings of State premieres of shorts such as You Play My Father<\/em> by Guillermo Roqu\u00e9s, Rafa Honrubia and Javier Mar\u00edn (documentary), Welcome Tahiya<\/em> by Marta Bayarri (fiction) and A Bird Called Memory<\/em> by Leonardo Martinelli (fiction).\r\n\r\n\r\n
OFFICIAL SECTION \u2013 ZIFF ZINEBI FIRST FILM<\/h6><\/div>\r\nTomorrow, Saturday, ZINEBI 65 will also be staging its sixth international first feature film competition. This kicks off with In the Rearview<\/em> by Polish director Maciek Hamela, in the wake of his success at the UK\u2019s Sheffield Doc\/Fest, the International Odessa Festival (Ukraine) and Millennium Docs Against Gravity (Poland). Certainly one of the documentaries of the year, presented at Cannes, and one of the 14 films nominated by the European Film Academy for the year\u2019s Best Documentary.\r\n\r\nDuring the afternoon, this Cinema 7 at Golem Alh\u00f3ndiga will also be screening another two feature films in the competition: Basque production Zarata<\/em> by Tamara Garc\u00eda Iglesias \u2013 which will be presented to the audience by the director herself \u2013, and the UK\/US co-production Playland by US artist Georden West, with a presentation of New York drag queen Lady Bunny<\/em>, who appears in the film. \r\n\r\nAnother six feature films will be competing for the ZIFF Grand Prix (12,000 \u20ac) and the Young Jury Award (2,000 \u20ac). They are all State premieres: Chilean documentary A la sombra de la luz<\/em> by Ignacia Merino Bustos and Isabel Reyes Bustos; US fiction Chestnut<\/em> by Jac Cron, starring actress Natalia Dyer (Stranger Things, 2016-2023); German fiction A Good Place<\/em> by Katharina Huber, winner of the prize for best up-and-coming director at the last Locarno Film Festival, who will be in Bilbao to present her film; Dutch fiction Milk<\/em> by Stefanie Kolk; the Chinese film A Song Sung Blue by Zihan Geng, premiered at the Cannes Quinzaine des R\u00e9alisateurs; and US fiction What Doesn\u2019t Float<\/em> by Luca Balser, starring and produced by Pauline Chalamet.\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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