Today it is opened the International Medium-length film Festival La Cabina

  • November 3rd, 2016
 
Festival La Cabina

From this day until the 13 November, it will be held the ninth edition of La Cabina - International Medium-length film Festival of Valencia, organized by the Cinema Club of the UV, CulturArts-IVAC and the Valencian Department of Culture. The festival will start this Thursday, at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, at 20:30 hours, with the projection of the medium-length film La balada (The ballad), by Ella Plummhof.

Furthermore, the opening ceremony of the festival will be presented by the humorous trio CinemaScupe, and the Valencian band Ratolines will also perform. 

During the next ten days, the Film Library of Valencia and the Cultural Centre La Nau will host all the projections: http://lacabina.es/

La Cabina shows, as every year, the best international cinema between 30 and 60 minutes in original version subtitled. It is the only festival in the world with this format with international scope. The festival have the sponsorship of Cervezas Turia and Caixa Popular.

One of the main topics, according to its director, Carlos Madrid, is the medium-length film The Art of the Deal (Jeremy Konner, EE. UU., 2016) that is part of the Official Section out of the competition and that will have a world release by La Cabina. The film is a parodic version of the homonymous best seller by Donald Trump in which he describes episodes of his life that have made him who he is now. The well-known actor Jonny Deep will play the role of the republican candidate to the Presidency of the United States. Ron Howard and Alfred Molina are also part of the cast. The film will be projected the same day of the American elections, on Tuesday 8 November at 22 hours, at the Film Library.

Once again, the Film Library of València will be one of the main headquarters in which the Official Section will be programmed. The Cultural Centre La Nau will host the Section Inèdits, with medium-length films by renowned directors, such as Abbas Kiarostami, Naomi Kawase, Jean Eustache and Akira Kurosawa, among others; Amalgama, section dedicated to non-fiction films and other languages, and that will be opened by Junun, documentary directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (‘Boogie Nights’, ‘Magnolia’, ‘Pozos de ambición’) and starring the guitarist of the legendary band Radiohead, Jonny Greenwood; and the new section added this year, Visuals, in which two bands (Luna y Panorama de los Insectos, and Ratolines), which incorporate Visuals in their performances, will offer two concerts, adding in this way power to the image of live music.

La Cabina grows year by year; an evidence of this is the big amount of films received, more than 380, of which 25 of 13 different nationalities has been chosen (France, Austria, Macedonia, Spain, Poland, Finland, Chile, Germany, Georgia, Russia, Greece, the United States and Belgium) for the Official Section. 

One of the novelties of this year is the inclusion of the Best Poster Award of a medium-length film of the Official Section and Amalgama, and also the development of the Specialization Course for Cultural Communication, given by Javier Tolentino, director of the programme El séptimo vicio’ (The seventh vice) by Radio 3.