After the last editions held at L’Alcoià, Countryside FilmFest act Camp d’Elx to celebrate Tenth installment from 1 to 9 July Y bringing big screen cinema to small towns that they lost it over the years or that they did not have such an opportunity. East International Film Festival rural and mobile environment total project will do sixties movies distributed eight districts ilicitanas and it will be the first time without leaving a carbon footprintthanks to a photovoltaic generator equipped with solar panels.
“This is a different festival that takes place in towns where cinemas or summer cinemas used to be and are disappearing. a very special cinema that talks about the rural environment and deals with environmental issues. But we don’t want to be just a showcase of these contents, It can also be a sustainable festival”Explains the man of Elche James Quileswith its creator Alberto Gutierrez From Rural FilmFest, which developed its first screenings in the province of Ciudad Real and has now found an ally in the Elche City Council with the support of the Institut Valencià de Cultura.
This year, La Foia, Valverde, Torrellano, La Marina, La Baia, L’Altet, Matola and Arenales del Sol Eight neighborhoods to enjoy during nine nights outdoors The exhibition consists of sixty titles, which will present a contemporary panorama of international cinema in short and long format. It’s about the rural world, ecology, natural and cultural resources.
All projections Free, as well as workshops and complementary events that will take place throughout the festival. In the afternoons, the films are shown in different urban venues, apart from the children’s section, in the social centers of Valverde and Torrellano, starting from 10 pm. The idea is that you can enjoy an hour and a half of rural cinema in a different neighborhood each day.. “If those who normally come from small towns are those who move to the city, we now invite people from the city to move to the counties,” says Quiles.
the program occurs 19 documentaries, 28 animation productions and 13 fictionrepresents 28 different countries. These, 56 short filmstwo are feature length films and the other two are medium length films.
“First of all, we are looking for, films that deal with the concept of rural in a broad sensefrom films with a clear ecological message, to fiction in stories that take place in rural settings as the main setting in both fiction and animation or documentary,” adds the assistant director.
They also travel to Countryside FilmFest authors of titles local or foreign selected and this edition will participate eg Lebanese filmmaker, samir kawas to present your movie Hurldescribing the problems experienced in a city in Lebanon, where a large trash mountain passes through the streets; dialect Andrzej Cichockiparticipating with A Little Heavena film about a family living in a rural environment far from the metropolis; Hungarian Catalin Egelyanimated if it comes from the ground; Finnish documentary filmmaker Kirsikka Paakkinentalking about his personal experience of returning to his childhood village When Mill Hill trees talk to me or french Charles Habib DrouotHe will delight the public with his comedy cow bells Set in the French mountains.
There are also world premieres like this one. Quixotefrom spanish Paul Lozano; internationally i fight it of the Gaelic Truc, from Italy; or three European premieres, among others.
The competition is rounded off by the Rural Community section featuring films directed by filmmakers from the Community of Valencia, and there are three selected works: La Gabia Director of San Vicente del Raspeig Adam Aliaga, skin on the ground of the Guille Porcar and Raul Lorite Valencia and ilicitana Ines Campello Who is running the animation? They no longer die “for love”.
The jury consists of various names from the world of cinema and culture, and the winning filmmakers of past editions are responsible for awarding the awards. rock deer. And intergenerational competition will not be missing Movilmetratges: Dozens of iaia no or yes, where anyone interested can record an audio-visual piece with their mobile device and present it until 3 July. At the exhibition on July 5, A jury consisting of the grandparents of the participants will determine the winner.