Category: Festivals

Cinemachile reports: “Jeonju Film Festival, one of the most important in Asia, selects Chilean films for its 21st edition”

Another international cinema event joins in on the trend of carrying out its activities online due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This time it’s the Jeonju Film Festival (JIFF), recognized as the center of independent film in Asia and the broadest window of avant-garde cinema in the entire world. JIFF had set its 21st edition for April 30th through May 9th, but postponed the encounter to May 28th to June 6th, and boasts a high national presence in several of its categories.

Showing in the World Cinema – Fiction section is This is Cristina, the directorial debut of screenwriter Gonzalo Maza, winner of the Jordan Ressler First Feature Award at the most recent Miami Film Festival. The film portrays two friends in their 30s who don’t know what to do with their lives; women trapped between their belated adolescence and a level of emotional maturity that never grows.

Since 2000, JIFF has introduced a series of new, emerging filmmakers to the world scene. In addition, Jeonju Project Market has dedicated itself to supporting independent film projects, distributing and promoting numerous Korean and foreign films. Industry Video Library and Industry Screening, meanwhile, have provided exclusively international guests, including the world’s festival programmers and film professionals.

I just came back from the Göteborg Film Festival, the legendary Scandinavian film festival in Sweden. We had the European premiere for “This is Cristina” in the Biopalaset theatre, and the audience was simply amazing. Lots of laughs and enthusiastic comments in the Q&A. I felt incredibly grateful for the experience. Göteborg is also the home of Volvo cars, so every time Susana’s car was showed in the film (a Volvo Heritage 265, that belongs to actor Paloma Salas) people in the audience was giggling with some not-so-hidden pride. Thank you, Göteborg!