Maria Schneider, 1983; British Boys; A Passing Cloud; Fur and Blue Has No Dimensions will be screened this Wednesday, April 19, at 7:45 p.m. at Cinesa El Muelle Screen 4
The director of the work that closes the session, Blue Has No Dimensions, will attend the screening to talk with the audience about it
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Tuesday, April 18, 2023.- The Official Short Films Section, where Asian, European and American pieces have got together, brings the audience of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival closer to the work of filmmakers who explore the fluid boundaries between genres. On Wednesday, April 19, this section’s competition begins with a single screening of the first five works, out of a total of thirteen, taking place at 7:45 p.m. at Cinesa El Muelle Screen 4.
81 minutes divided into the works of Elisabeth Subrin, Maria Schneider, 1983 (France, 2022, 25 min.), in which the renowned French actress Maria Schneider gave an interview on the TV program Cinéma Cinemas in 1983. Relying on the work of three actresses, Elisabeth Subrin recreates from the present this conversation, which takes a turn by reconsidering the practices of the film industry.
It will continue with Garotos ingleses / British Boys by Marcus Curvelo (Brazil, 2022, 15 min.), a vision of the Brazilian city of Salvador de Bahia, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, where there is no place of eternal rest more valued than the British Cemetery. To be buried there, it is necessary to prove one’s ancestry. Finding a way to demonstrate this link will be the goal of the two protagonists.
It will be followed by Tang Peiyan’s A Passing Cloud (China, 2022, 14 min.), a short film whose protagonist Zhao Mei, a woman who works as a rideshare driver to support her family, takes a teenager called Yivi as a passenger. While they drive to the destination, the woman starts to question her role as a mother as she learns more about the girl.
The fourth title to take over the screen is Zhen Li’s Fur (USA, 2022, 7 min.), a reflection of how mold lurks infatuation when that feeling is prolonged too long in time.
Finally, Ágata de Pinho will attend the screening to introduce her short film Azul / Blue Has No Dimensions (Portugal, 2022, 20 min.) and talk about it with the audience. In her piece, the main character, Ara, has always believed that she would disappear at the age of twenty-eight. With that age approaching, she pursues the essential feeling of existence in the water, the sun, and the sublime. The director and leading actress Ágata de Pinho explores this belief through an autodiscovery journey
The thirteen short films competing in the Official Section has been divided into three single screenings taking place on April 19, 20 and 21 at Cinesa El Muelle.
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