Novo Cine Galego is starring at the film festival in Bolzano

The Bolzano International Festival, which takes place in the Tyrol region of Italy, will celebrate its 36th edition Europe’s special focus on New Cinema Galegoa movement that brings together a group of authors who have been receiving recognition at major competitions on the international scene all these years.

For the first time, the festival in Bolzano does not dedicate its European focus to the state, but to the historical autonomous community, and this carries an implicit surplus value and has already been verified in the most demanding forums. The new Cinema Galego stems from the audacity of very young directors and their audiovisual creative ferment that dynamized the conventions of the already existing narrative framework in Galicia, barren at the time of the indigenous film industry. So it is in the middle of the first decade of this century (with shorts by Oliver Laxe or Ángel Santos) these young barbarians were the protagonists of one of the most prolific and unexpected epidemics experienced on European territory during these two decades. Because they started from radical independence in their travels. And they began to move, east of Eden, without much patronage. It is for this reason that every work that has come out of this group has been raised as a subtle libertarian and germinal test in the middle of a wasteland or an ocean without navigational charts.

Those first sketches by Laxe or Santos began to take international shape in 2010, when the former won the Critics’ Fortnight Directors Award in Cannes for You are all captains. From there, the accolades follow one after the other: Xurxo Chirro in Fid Marseille, Alberto Gracia and Eloy Enciso, in Rotterdam and Buenos Aires; Lois Patiño with the Filmmakers of the Present Award in Locarno 2014. And as the biggest achievements to date, the triumphant installation of Oliver Laxe in Cannes, with mimosas and what burnsand those of Patiño at the Berlinale with Lúa Vermella, Star Sower and Samsara.

“What’s Burning”

This Europe: Galicia spotlight, programmed by festival director Vincenzo Bugno and Spaniard Ricardo Apilánez, begins with a screening of the film O that’s hot. And on consecutive days with exhibitions Lua Vermella, Longa Noita , the second feature film by Eloy Encis, Trinta Lumes by Diane Toucedo, Eles transportan a norte by Helena Girón and Samuel Delgado and Trota by Xacio Baños. Three of their signatories, Eloy Enciso, Helena Girón and Samuel Delgado, and the producer of their works, Beli Martínez, will be present at the films.

Foco Europe: Galicia at the festival in Bolzano will be placed in the context of marking the round table entitled Novo Cinema Galego beyond clichés. artistic and cultural identity. Director of The Arrayans and Long night Eloy Enciso together with his producer Beli Martínez, Beatrice Fiorentino (chief delegate of the Critics’ Week at the Venice Festival and international promoter, from Galician origin — but not only — titles such as Transported to death) and Jaime Pena, CGAI programmer and active follower of Novo Cinema Galego on its travels during this decade.

Sam Pena and the programmer of the focus, Ricardo Apilánez, will present daily these films that form the first international focus dedicated to the works and correspondence of this generation of which they are also a part — it would be difficult to gather them all together in Bolzano, even if he gave for an indelible Gongorian photograph- Eloy Domínguez Serén, Alfonso Zarauza, Jaione Camborda, Peque Varela, Marcos Nine, Sonia Méndez or Anxos Fazáns- and rising producers such as Xavi Font, Dani Froiz or founding pioneer and always needed man Felipe Lage.