The Cinema Fest comprises ten works encompassing audiences of diverse generations and possessing artistic quality and popularity.
First, Gondola is set in the backdrop of a rural village in the Republic of Georgia and portrays stories revolving around the cable cars, an essential transportation for the villagers, with a warm perspective depicted without dialogue. Following that, Adios Buenos Aires set in Argentina, struggling with an economic crisis in the early 2000s. The protagonist, a shoe salesman and bandoneon player, decides to immigrate to Germany, but through a chance encounter, he ends up staying in his hometown and continuing his musical career. In the Indian comedy-drama Lost Ladies, a bride is swapped because of a bizarre incident, but with the help of people around her, the bride eventually finds her dream and her beloved husband. From Love & Revolution, which comically deals with the LGBTQ+ movement in Spain in the 1970s to Punch Drunk, which is a comical love story between Mahtab, a mother who is raising a ten-year-old son after divorcing her imprisoned husband, with her son’s karate teacher. Viewers can encounter works that provide heartwarming emotions and fun in this section.
Early Apex is a work that makes the audience give thoughts not only on sports but also on home education, and They Shot the Piano Player is a new work by the Spanish duo Fernando TRUEBA and Javier MARISCAL, who opened a new chapter in music animation with their previous work Chico and Rita(2010). This work is another masterpiece of music animation that takes viewers on a journey to traces of a Brazilian pianist during the Argentine military dictatorship era, along with a taste of the history and essence of Brazilian Bossa Nova music. Also, the documentary Vika! is about DJ Vika, who is 84-year-old, the oldest, and actively performing in Warsaw, and the documentary film Ula is about Urszula Dudziak, a Polish-born jazz vocalist who earned recognition after moving to the United States. The documentary Let the Canary Sing is about Cyndi Lauper, widely known as a singer who left many hit songs such as Time After Time, True Colors, and She Bop. She is also renowned as the lyricist and songwriter for the musical Kinky Boots. Cinema Fest section will show music films that will make your body move.
Programmer CHUN Jinsu
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