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FESTIVAL KICK-OFF

This coming Wednesday, the world premiere of the Argentine film Vaquero—debut film by actor and director Juan Minujín—opens the 13th edition of the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Film, best known among the city’s festival goers as BAFICI. It will be 11 days of pure quality cinema: from the “recovered” version of Metropolis to the first short films exhibition featuring works by young Argentine directors, from the premiere in Argentina of the Spanish blockbuster Torrente 4 to a retrospective of Jean Luc Godard, from the restored Il gattopardo (just like it was screened at Cannes last year) to the movies for children and adults of the “Little Bafici” section. In the aforementioned examples lies the key to the diversity, aesthetic-narrative exploration and quality pursued by the Festival—and happily found. Past, present and future of the good cinema that people in Buenos Aires love.

The programme also includes free outdoor cinema at Pasaje Carlos Gardel, San Martín de Tours square and Cataluña square; concerts at the Meeting Point by the end of every day; book presentations (among them, a novel by César Aira based on the Festival); update seminars; open dialogues with prestigious international guests; roundtables; business meetings through the Industry Office; seminars with professionals, academics and intellectuals at Talent Campus; and—held simultaneously—the Buenos Aires Lab (BAL), the event that promotes the development of new Latin American cinema to the world.