Independent, risky and innovative films have a date at L'Alternativa
The festival celebrates its 29th edition and will open on November 18 with Suro, directed by Mikel Gurrea and starring Vicky Luengo and Pol López.
The Centre de Cultura Contemporània (CCCB) will host the main screen of L'Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival which, in its 29th edition, will also offer projections at Zumzeig, Maldà, Filmoteca de Catalunya and MACBA. Some of the films will also be available on Filmin, between November 18 and December 4.
The festival, always betting on innovative, committed and thoughtful films, will open with Suro, the first full-length film by Mikel Gurrea. It stars Vicky Luengo and Pol López and has already been awarded the Fipresci critics' prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival. In addition to the screening, during the evening, Gurrea will talk about the development process of his debut alongside some members of his team.
In the International Feature Film section, eleven titles will compete, almost all of them documentaries. These are some of them: Još jedno proleće / Another Spring (Mladen Kovačević), Geographies of Solitude (Jacquelyn Mills), GES-2 (Nastia Korkia), Hostilities (M. Sebastian Molina) and Luminum (Maximiliano Schonfeld). L'Alternativa also gives voice to short films, and in the International Short Film section, seventeen of them will be screened, among them Nazarbazi (Maryam Tafakory), Urban Solutions (Minze Tummescheit, Luciana Mezeto, Vinícius Lopes, Arne Hector), Flora (Nicolás Pereda), A Casa do Norte (Inês Lima) and A Human Certainty (Morgan Quaintance). The Spanish Films section includes three feature films and fifteen fiction, non-fiction, essay, animation and experimental shorts.
But there are special sessions, with films by Ulrich Seidl, Santiago Fillol, Carla Simón, Lucrecia Martel and Jerzy Skolimowski, and the She Shoots section, dedicated to female directors of photography. Film directors Albert Serra and Andrés Duque will be the guests of Parallel section Satellites, consisting of meetings with filmmakers with outstanding careers and orbits that have been crossing paths with L’Alternativa.
La Fàbrica de Cinema Alternatiu of Barcelona organizes the film festival, in collaboration with CCCB and with the support of the Culture Department of Generalitat de Catalunya, Catalan Institute of Cultural Companies and Barcelona City Council. You can find all the information about L'Alternativa on its official website.