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The International Film Festival of Murcia Ibaff celebrates its X anniversary with a complete program, which will run from 1 to 10 March at the Regional Film Archive.
The Councilor for Economic Promotion, Culture and European Programs, Jesús Pacheco, who presented the program this morning, explained that "the IBAFF has grown in this decade to become a benchmark, both for our city and for professionals who The goal is to make other types of cinema visible, while serving as an annual meeting point for creators and the public. "
The main novelty is the session Educa-IBAFF, composed of a selection of short films of international animation aimed at children, which aims to educate the youngest and young in other types of cinema, where experimental animation, techniques old and the most contemporary, where imagination and creativity become elementary factors for the survival of more alternative cinema.
The children will also be able to enjoy an artistic and experimental cinema, outside the commercial circuits, with the aim of educating other types of cinema and unconventional formats.
"From the Ibaff show a great interest in children, because their imagination is a source of creativity for the present and the future, so Educa-Ibaff aims to educate children through film screenings composed of films of difficult access, short pieces where the language does not suppose a barrier for its understanding and where the visual beauty becomes new promoter language for future artists and directors ", has pointed Pacheco.
As Official Section, the International Film Festival of Murcia IBAFF has programmed 14 feature films and as many short films by filmmakers from places as diverse as Spain, Italy, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Sweden, Czech Republic, Portugal, Tunisia, Brazil, Mexico, Thailand, China or Canada.
The Honorary Award will be awarded to the Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences of Spain "for not remaining aloof from any of the debates that have shaken the audiovisual production and for developing new projects that generate new viewers and educational initiatives that preserve the memory of the cinema and helps its external diffusion ".
There will also be a retrospective cycle of the filmography of Jaime Rosales, direct of films like 'Las horas del día', which won the International Critics 'Prize in the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival or 'La soledad' winner of the award to the best director and best film in the XXII edition of the Goya Awards.
The Ibaff again reserves a space for the young people of the municipality allowing a jury made up of high school students to award the Young Ibaff Award.
The shorts viewed by the students in this edition, and who choose the award, will be: 'Russa', 'Wounds against oblivion', 'In those lands', 'The cup is already filling up' and 'The last route'.
This project offers students the development of a critical aptitude and attitude forming people prepared to see and value the cinema.
Another novelty is that in this edition the eight finalist audiovisual pieces of the contest CreaMurcia 2018 will be screened for the Short and Documentary Program.
The videotapes will be 'The best short film in the world', by Daniel Juan Zapata García;
'Whatever is for today', by Ricardo Ibáñez Ruiz;
'Contratiempo', by Juan Andrés Bermúdez Romero;
'On the table', by L & L Lorenzo Baño and David Delgado;
'La culpa', by Ana Barceló Alfocea;
'Garden of ashes', of Paolo Natale Garci'a;
'El murciano', by Miguel Muñoz Gascón;
e 'Intense.
Theatrical love confession ", by José Antonio García Valera, who won the first prize.
For the youngest children the FoleYFonía children's cinema workshop for children has been organized, which consists in creating and recreating sounds for the cinematographic image, playing with the imagination, looking for experimental effects through sound, making visible the hidden art of the soundman and resulting in an experimental piece where the inventiveness of children will be the protagonist.
There will also be a meeting of filmmakers in which the directors Isaki Lacuesta and Jaime Rosales will participate, and which will be moderated by Carlos F. Heredero, director of the magazine Caimán Cuadernos de Cine.
It will have as its theme 'Author's cinema: the dichotomy between festivals and institutions'.
The Murcia Film Festival IBAFF continues to bet on bringing culture to all types of groups.
In this line, in this X edition will bring the cinema to three groups of viewers who can not access it as they would like.
One consists of inmates of the Campos del Río Penitentiary Center -by the NGO Solidarios para el Desarrollo-;
people with cerebral palsy and related pathologies - thanks to Astrapace-;
and part of the patients of the Virgen de la Arrixaca University Clinical Hospital -in the Hospital Classrooms program of the Aulas Hospitalarias Platform of Murcia-
All will watch a selection of short films programmed in the Official Section.
Your votes will result in a Special Mention for the Public Prize.
The 4th edition of the Film Criticism Seminar will seek to offer an introduction to the theory, history and practice of film criticism.
The purpose of the various subjects is to encourage reflection on the meaning of the images, provide basic notions for the interpretation of the cinematographic text, know the criteria of analysis of the film, review the main theories and critical tendencies, understand the different models and professional spaces for the exercise of criticism, as well as offering professional guidance to students.
Ten year balance
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the International Film Festival of Murcia IBAFF (Ibn Arabi International Film Festival) born as an initiative of the Center for Contemporary Culture Puertas de Castilla.
Created in 2010, its name is inspired by the figure of the Sufi thinker Ibn Arabi, philosopher, mystic, poet and traveler born in the XII century Murcia.
In this decade, the IBAFF has received around 12,000 spectators.
With them, Murcia has experienced exciting moments for moviegoers.
As when Abbas Kiarostami visited the IBAFF in 2012 and 2013. The Iranian director and poet taught a film course with 45 students who enjoyed theoretical sessions as a seminar and developed their filming projects in various locations under their supervision.
With the Young IBAFF, a score of institutes of the Region of Murcia have participated each year awarding a prize.
In total about 20,000 students throughout all these editions.
In addition, 1,200 students benefited from training proposals: at the Cayman's critical seminars;
film workshops -for adults and children-;
dialogues between directors such as Marc Recha, Jaime Rosales, Isaki Lacuesta, Kiarostami or Pedro Costa;
film library meetings;
meeting of schools such as the Film School of Cuba, the ESCAC of Barcelona, ​​the Portuguese Film School, the Lodz School (Poland), the Geneva Film School of Cinema du Reel, the Iran Film School ...
In order to reach this tenth round, the succession in time of human teams committed to the project and the help of Murcia has been fundamental.
For the IBAFF have passed 350 volunteers in production departments, communication, room, guests, traffic, editing and assembly, workshops and meetings .. - While another 200 Murcia exercised popular jury watching and voting official sections.
The IBAFF has also made efforts to collaborate with different integration platforms: CEPAIM, Hospital Classrooms, ASTRAPACE, Solidarios.
As for movies, registrations of about 3,150 tapes have been received.
In the nine editions in which there was an official competition section, an average of 350 works per year were inscribed, 70% of shorts and 30% of lengths, both fiction and documentaries.
The works came from all five continents, including countries such as the Philippines, Japan, Canada, Iran, China, Poland, Australia, Tibet, United Kingdom, R.Checa, Switzerland, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Germany, Denmark, Serbia, Macedonia, Costa Rica, South Africa, Morocco, USA, Canada, Belgium, Italy, Turkey, Israel, Syria, Brazil, Mexico, Portugal, Dominican R., Georgia, Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Chile, Romania, Thailand, Russia and Spain.
Among the jurors of the IBAFF stand out: Isaki Lacuesta, Jean-Marc Terrasse, Fernando Chinarro, Sylvie Pierre, Antonio Delgado, Áurea Ortiz, Andrea Franco, Isabel Durante, Milagros Mumenthaler, Mireia Mullor, Khristine Gillard, Valentine Siboni, Kevin Senant, Eulalia Iglesias , Coke Rioboo, Gonzalo Ballester, Pedro Ortuño, Juan Barrero, Andres Duque, Virginia Villaplana, Cecilia Barrionuevo, Maria Joao Soares ...
The festival has awarded different Honorary Awards: Majid Majidi (2010);
Vittorio Storaro (2011);
Abbas Kiarostami (2012);
Ex aequo Jean-Claude Carrière and Trafic magazine (2013);
Cinemateca Portuguesa (2014);
FIPRESCI (2015);
Pere Portabella (2016);
Cayman Ediciones (2017);
Lucrecia Martel (2018);
and the Film Academy in this tenth edition.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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