Bafici
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The love of cinema is a behavioral disorder without which BAFICI would lose its raison d´être. Cinema for cinema´s sake. Cinema about cinema. On this occasion, Leonardo Favio, Guy Maddin, Alfred Hitchcock, Raúl Perrone and Raúl Ruiz move away from the camera viewfinder and get in the picture-and they turn out to be as complex and fascinating as their own characters.
A tour through the history of porn –among prejudice, taboos and myths–, from the moment it constituted itself as a genre until it became an industry. And, while we’re at it, a look on the chances of progressing in Argentina.
A documentary about emblematic independent filmmaker Raúl Perrone, who lives in the area of greater Buenos Aires mentioned in the title.
Every summer night, in some Spanish towns, locals and tourists come together in parks to experience an outdoors 35mm screening. People work restlessly to make this possible in long days that can very well be their last.
A filmmaker arrives in Chiloé –one of the largest islands in the Chilean coast– and plans his next film. Between auditions and location scouting, he makes his way through the stories he spies on, while observing the links and tensions that float in the air.
In early 2009, Favio gave an interview that remained unreleased and in which he only talked about film. The result was a master class, and this documentary revives it, seeking to shed light on the Argentine filmmaker’s unique gaze.
Harold and Lilian worked in hundreds of iconic films during the golden age of Hollywood, including The Apartment, The Birds and The Graduate. But their contributions remain mostly unaccredited.
Half a century after the publication of the book Hitchcock, by François Truffaut, Kent Jones invites filmmakers (Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson, James Gray, Paul Schrader) to share their thoughts on the master of suspense.
Sick of the time it takes to make a film and how hard it is to release one, María Victoria decides to leave her job as a film director and starts filming her husband and children. That road will take her to find herself and her passion for cinema again.
Through stock footage and interviews, this documentary playfully tells of the sexual revolution and the rise of porn that took place in Italy in the late ‘70s and ‘80s, where battles for political, cultural and personal freedoms took place.
Alejandra Rojo sketches a portrait of the Chilean filmmaker, who took up exile in France during the ‘73 coup d’état. He uses fragments from films, interviews and testimonies in order to account for the man who created an ironic, unclassifiable body of work.
A portrait of Jorge Sarudiansky (his friends call him Saru), one of the greatest Argentine set designers, who has made around a hundred innovative theater sets in the last forty years.
Kartaszewicz’s first film depicts the life and work of filmmaker Quirino Cristiani (1896-1984), an Italian-Argentine animator, drawing artist, and comic book writer who created the world’s first animated film El apóstol (1917), and whose work is now almost entirely lost.
A group of four young people travel in a van through deserted jungle towns, carrying an inflatable film screen and the necessary equipment to screen films in remote places in the country.