Wim Wenders will receive the BCN FILM FEST 2023 honor award, together with Omar Sy, Toni Servillo, Bille August, Nanni Moretti, Jafar Panahi and Bérénice Bejo.
He Barcelona-Sant Jordi International Film Festival (BCN FILM FEST)which is celebrated from April 20 to 28 in the Verdi Cinemas in Barcelona As the main venue, it presents its poster and part of the programming for its seventh edition, as well as its new protagonists, an impeccable collection of stars that include Omar Sy, Toni Servillo, Bille August, Nanni Moretti, Jafar Panahi and Bérénice Bejo.
The festival will deliver its Honor Award to the fundamental Wim Wendersa filmmaker to whom the Essentials section will also be dedicated with a retrospective that, in collaboration with the Wim Wenders Foundation, collects his most representative works, among which are ‘Paris, Texas’, ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ and ‘Pina’ .
“We are very happy to announce that this year the festival has as its image one of the most emblematic and renowned European directors, Wim Wenders, an admired and award-winning filmmaker, who symbolizes a spirit of constant research,” he says. Conxita Casanovas, Director of the BCN FILM FEST. “His inspiring filmography, which has connected cinema with music, literature and photography or dance, will serve us as a navigator this year. In this regard, Wim Wenders’ cinema, so multifaceted and in permanent renewal, comes to us as a glove and connects with a BCN FILM FEST with the intention of improving and being useful to the film industry, reinforcing the image of Barcelona”.
The BCN FILM FEST 2023 poster pays tribute, precisely, to Wim Wenders, one of those directors with the ability to create and train new moviegoers. For this reason, the festival’s poster is inspired by his most emblematic film, ‘Paris, Texas’, with an image of Nastassja Kinski that its author, Joel B. García, has taken as a reference.
‘SICA’, directed by Carla Subirana, will be in charge of closing the festival. The film, selected by the Berlin Film Festival, is a coming-of-age shot on the Costa da Morte and starring Thais García, in the role of a 14-year-old girl who waits for the sea to return the body of her fisherman father.
The seventh edition of the festival will have a program of around 70 titles among its different sections, we review the first preview of its programming:
OFFICIAL SECTION
SOUL & OSKAR
By Dieter Berner and with Emily Cox, Valentir Postlmayr and Anton von Lucke.
Austria / Spanish premiere
THE HUMMINGBIRD
By Francesca Archibugi and with Pierfrancesco Favino, Nanni Moretti, Bérénice Bejo and Laura Morante.
Italy / Spanish premiere
THE FIRST DAY OF MY LIFE
By Paolo Genovese and with Toni Servillo, Margherita Buy, Valerio Mastandrea and Sara Serraiocco.
Italy / Spanish premiere
FATHER & SOLDIER
By Mathieu Vadepied and with Omar Sy, Alassane Diong and Jonas Bloquet.
France / Spanish premiere
THE IMPATIENCE OF THE HEART
By Bille August and with David Dencik, Lars Mikkelsen and Rosalinde Mynster.
Denmark / Spanish premiere
THE URUGUAYAN
By Ana García Blaya and with Sebastian Arzeno, Fiorella Botaiolli and Gustavo Garzón.
Argentina / International premiere
THE VOYAGE OF TALIA
By Christophe Rolin and with Nadège Bibo-Tansia, Aminata Sarr and Oumy Sow.
Belgium / Spanish premiere
OFFICIAL SECTION (COMPETITION FORUM)
THE PADILLA CASE
By Pavel Giroud
Cuba / Catalan premiere
NO BEARS
From Jafar Panahi and with Jafar Panahi, Mina Kavani and Naser Hashemi.
Iran / Catalan premiere
CLOSING FILM
SICA
By Carla Subirana and with Thais García Blanco and Núria Prims.
Spain / Catalan Premiere
ASIA NOIR BY CINEASIA
THE HELL OF HATE (1963)
By Akira Kurosawa and with Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai and Kyôko Kagawa.
Japan
PERFECT BLUE (1997)
From Satoshi Kon.
Japan
MEMORIES OF MURDER (2002)
From Bong Joon-ho and with Song Kang-ho, Kim Sang-kyung and Roe-ha Kim.
South Korea
PSYCHO RAMAN (2016)
By Anurag Kashyap and featuring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vicky Kaushal and Sobhita Dhulipala.
India
MISSING (2021)
From Shinzô Katayama and with Aoi Itô, Jirô Satô and Hiroya Shimizu.
Japan / Catalan premiere
HUNT. HUNT THE SPY (2022)
By Lee Jung-jae and featuring Lee Jung-jae, Jung Woo-sung and Heo Sung-tae.
South Korea
ESSENTIALS: WIM WENDERS RETROSPECTIVE
THE GOALKEEPER’S FEAR BEFORE THE PENALTY (1971)
ALICE IN THE CITIES (1974)
THE AMERICAN FRIEND (1977)
THE STATE OF THINGS (1982)
PARIS, TEXAS (1984)
SKY OVER BERLIN (1987)
UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD – Director’s cut (1991)
SO FAR, SO CLOSE! (1993)
LISBON STORY (1994)
GOOD VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (1999)
THE MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL (2000)
PINEAPPLE (2011)
Source: Fotogramas
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