The 41st edition of the FILMETS Badalona Film Festival: from 20th to 29th November 2015

22/10/2015

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Zero, David Victori Blaya

The 41st edition of the FILMETS Badalona Film Festival comes with an official section of 255 films from 46 countries and more than 4.000 short films registered. FILMETS Festival will be held from 20 to 29 November 2015.

Guest country, Switzerland

The 41st edition of the FILMETS Badalona Film Festival will be held from 20 to 28 November at the official headquarters of the Zorrilla Theatre, the Teatre Principal, the auditorium of the Joan Maragall C.E.S., the Centre Cívic La Salut, the public libraries of the city and, for the first year, at the French Institute of Barcelona, that will be offering a screening from the international programme with French short films in competition.

SWITZERLAND, with its long tradition and support to short films, will be the guest country, with the collaboration of SWISS FILMS, Consulate General of Switzerland in Barcelona and Switzerland Tourism Office of Barcelona, among others.Short films from this country have participated within the last years in the most important international festivals, such as Locarno (class A festival), the reputed Animatou in Geneva or Kurtzfilmtage Wintertur, among others.

The session “Cinema, músicaigastronomia: Suïssa, paísconvidat”, will offer the performance of the band Gilles Estoppey and some wine tasting as well as some typical products from the Alpine country.

FILMETS Festival has organized information activities throughout this year in Catalonia, as well as retrospective sessions of Catalonian short films in festivals such as the REGARD in Quebec (Canada), the UNLIMITED Erice in Sicily (Italy), the MÈDIT in Ciutadella de Menorca, the Cinema Museum in Gerona, the fair Connect’Art of Young Creators in Badalona, the Cinema Lliure a la Platja de Barcelona, the Francophonie Week at the French Institute of Barcelona, EL DIA MÉS CURT, the MOST de Vilafranca del Penedès and the Festival Cinéma des Peoples in Morocco.

The International Program, central axis of FILMETS, comprises up to 255 short films from 48 countries. These films have been selected to compete in the Festival of this year among more than 4.500 enrolled short films, and will be shown along the week distributed in 27 different competitive sections.

The cover of the catalogue and this year’s official poster have been designed by Ana Meléndez Fernández, student of 2º course of Gràfica Impressa at the Escola d’Art I Superior de Disseny Pau Gargallo of Badalona.

One of Filmets’ goals is to reach all the people from the town of Badalona and from the metropolitan area, as well as those people with social inclusion difficulties. FILMETS INCLUDES will make it possible for these people to have access to cinema through the big educational project of Filmets Badalona Film Festival.

Since 2008, this kind of sessions have been increasing, carrying out a dissemination task among schools, high schools and retirement homes, as well as among less-favoured groups (blind and hard-of-hearing people). The Festival organizes a special screening aimed at all audiences with audio-description technology.

For the last editions, FILMETS has also reached nurseries of kids from 1 and 2 years. Sincelast year, a new programming projectis aiming at reaching kids in Primary Education as well, with very successful participation rates.

This year FILMETS has also collaborated with Videovalues, where young unemployed people have participated in video workshops (also with the collaboration of Obra Social La Caixa), making it possible for the best short films to be screened on the 41st edition of Filmets Film Festival for the first time. This collaboration boostedthese people by allowing them to share experiences with film producers and directors and show their work. Besides, a new project in collaboration with Badalona’s language schools is beginning, that intends to create a screening session named FILMETS O.V., with filmspresented in their original version and subtitled in Catalan.

SECTIONS

  • Cinema, música i gastronomia: Suïssa, país convidat: international programme session dedicated to short films awarded by the most important film festivals worldwide. performance of the band Gilles Estoppey.
  • Manifest: political and claim short films.
  • Sessió golfa: the most radical and daring short films. This session will be preceded by EL SOBRINO DEL DIABLO musical performance.
  • La mar de Filmets, cinema de la Mediterrània: screening session dedicated to the Mediterranean countries’ filmography.
  • Drets Humans: short films with social commitmentvalues in collaboration with the Federació Catalana d’ONG per la Pau, els Drets Humans i el Desenvolupament.
  • Filmets integra: special sessions for each group, with more than 7.000 students: Filmets en família, Filmets jove (students from Primary and Secondary School), Filmets per a tothom(people with disabilities), Petit Filmets (nurseries and students from Primary Schools), Filmets a les biblioteques i Centres Cívics and Filmets campus (productions from Catalonian and European Cinema Schools). As well as a screening session with sign language.
  • Masterclass: With the painter Juan Antonio García: A life painting dreams. Expert in cinema posters, cinema lover who has transferred his passion to his children. Juan Antonio García is the father of film director J.A. Bayona.
  • Cinema històric: recovery of Badalona’s film heritage,this year is dedicated to a series of documentaries and religious processions that took place in our town between 1950 and 1970, directed by Eladi Segundo Puells y Josep Parra Estévez.
  • Badalona en curt: projection of short films made by the Badalona citizens will take place Saturday November, 21 at the Zorilla Theatre. This year there are 13 films on competition and 4 on the Official Section.
  • Filmets en forma: short films about the world of sport, in collaboration with BCN Sports Film.
  • Projecció-col·loqui: screening and round-table on the documentaryEL SO DE LA POR, produced byTelevisió de Catalunya, an exploration of the importance of sound in fantastic cinema, will be presented by their creators.

On Friday November 27, two events will take place at the hall of the Zorilla Theatre: the official presentationof EL DIA MÉS CURT on its third edition, the event which will be celebrated on December, 21 throughout the world. And secondly, a demonstration of 3d Oculus, the release of a new virtual technology that will revolutionise theaudio-visualworld as of 2016.

FILMETS Badalona Film Festival will be an important meeting point for directors of short films around the world, and it will be attended by filmmakers andfestival managers from all over the world.

The opening day, on November 20, will offer a small sample of this year’s programme with the following internationally awarded short films:

– WRAPPED, Germany – Visual Effects                    

– AUBADE, Switzerland – Animation

– LE PEPERETTE, Canada / Quebec – Fiction

– CAPTAIN 3D, France – Animation

– AVE MARIA, Palestine, Germany, France – Fiction

– AUTOS PORTRAITS, Canada / Quebec–Animation

– BLOQUEJATS APILATS, Catalonia – Animation

– L’OURS NOIRE, France – Fiction

– A SINGLE LIFE, Nederland – Animation

– DANNY AND THE WILD BUNCH –Fiction   

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Aubade, Mauro Carraro

In this years’ programme there are productions standing out for being selected or winners in the festivals of Canes, Sundance, Berlin, Venice, Clermont-Ferrand, Hamburg, Tribeca, etc., and also nominated to the Goya, César, Donatello, Bafta and Oscar Awards.

All the technical specifications, cast and crew information, as well as the short films synopsis of FILMETS 2015, are included in the official catalogue, available in pdf format to download at: https://www.festivalfilmets.cat from Monday, November, 9.

INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS MARKET

Within the framework of FILMETS Badalona Film Festival, MerCATin, the International Short Films Market, will be held.MerCATin will allow all professionals attending the festival from 23 to 27 November to watch all the films in the Official Section.

Reservations

Dates and hours to watch short films canbe reserved contacting this e-mail: premsafilmets@teleb.cat.

Screening times

From 23 to 27 November 10:00 to 14:00/ 17:00 to 21:00

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Opening ceremony: FILMETS Badalona Film Festival 2015 opening ceremony will take place on 20 November at the Zorrilla Theatre at 22:00 (invitation only).

Closing ceremony (Nit de les Venus): will take place on Saturday 28 November (invitation only).

The closing ceremony will be live broadcasted by the Xarxa de Comunicació Local.

Prices: this year’s novelty is the FREE ENTRY to all screenings.(Limited capacity).

WHERE ARE WE

Addresses: the screenings will be held at:

Zorrilla Theatre: c/ Canonge Baranera, 17, Badalona.

Teatro Principal: c/ Francesc Layret, 41, Badalona.

How to arrive: 

Stop Badalona PompeuFabra, Underground L2.

Renfe: Line R1. Badalona station.

Phone number: +34 93 497 40 00

E-mail: filmets@teleb.cat

AWARDS

Venus de Badalona and 2.000 euros – Best film award.

Venus de Badalona and 1.000 euros – Special juryaward .

Venus de Badalona and 750 euros – Public award .

Venus de Badalona and 750 euros – Best film award.

Venus de Badalona and 750 euros – Best animated film award.

Venus de Badalona and 750 euros – Best documentary award.

Venus de Badalona and 750 euros – Best videoclip award.

Venus de Badalona and 750 euros – Best Spanish production award.

Venus de Badalona and 750 euros – Best Catalan production award.

Venus de Badalona and 750 euros – Human Rights awards.

Venus de Badalona and 750 euros – Best short film produced in Badalona award.

Venus de Badalona and 750 euros – Best production to the values award.

Venus de Badalona and 500 euros – Best European production award.

Venus de Badalona – Best male and female interpretation award.

Venus de Badalona – Best original music award.

Venus de Badalona – Best short film broadcasted in this season of FILMETS TV programme.

The international jury and the organizing committee could give special awards, not specified here, if it’s deemedappropriate.

MEDIA CREDENTIALS

This year a new tag will be available on the festival’s website to provide credentials to directors, actors and media representatives. The new url will be published shortly and application forms will be available to submit.

Media representatives can access all the screenings with their press cards. It also gives them right to attend the opening and closing ceremony, where media agents are expected to show their cards.

For further information, please contact: premsafilmets@teleb.cat

FILMETS Badalona Film Festival is organized by the Ajuntament de Badalona and produced by the municipal company Badalona Comunicació.

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A single life, Job, Joris & Marieke

 
 
 

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