The 2024 film festival is just around the corner

Twelfth edition Panama International Film Festival (IFF Panama) is getting closer, because the film festival will be in April.

He IFF Panama will be held from April 4 to 7, 2024 and will give way to ceremonial opening with the presentation of the tape “Mother of all lies” on the big screen, April 5.

According to the organizers, this year more than 25 movieslocal and foreign guests, open air cinema and a strong industry-focused program to promote the development of the seventh art at local and regional levels.

The opening will be on Friday, April 5, at the Cinépolis de Multiplaza Mall.

opening tape

The film “The Mother of All Lies” tells about a turning point in history important to him Kingdom of Morocco in the eighties where he is fear took over its streets, creating a web of lies and destroying any evidence, memory or stories which could bring to light this deep conflict that the Moroccan people lived through, which claimed numerous lives in an unprecedented and unprecedented massacre. eyewitnesses Till today.

“The idea of ​​how we imagine cinema is a window that allows us to tell stories, that leads us to recreate ourselves and dive deeper into our roots, our originWake up emotions so intense that they were the conduit for the development of this extraordinary story,” commented Karla Quintero, Executive Director of the Panama International Film Festival.

Quintero also expressed his admiration for strength, ingenuity and impeccable workmanship Asmae El Moudiras director, producer, editor and narrator of the documentary.

The opening tape got important acknowledgments in most festivals of his great journey. Highlighting, award for The best address in the Un Certain Regard section and the Golden Eye for the best documentary in Cannes 2023, and Morocco was selected for the Oscar for The best international film of 2024.

In her second documentary, Moroccan director Asmae El Moudir explores the reason why she only keeps one Photography from his childhoodand more intriguingly, why the girl shown in the picture is not even herself.

She decides to investigate the past and hers mysteries the creation of a replica handicraft from the Casablanca neighborhood where she grew up. There he begins to examine the stories his mother, father and grandmother tell him about their home and country.

The truth is hard to face, but in this sometimes surreal documentary, El Moudir begins to reveal surface which is real.

Tickets

Tickets for this and all IFF Panama screenings will be available through the platform. panatickets.com and in iffpanama.ong

Source: Panama America

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