A Coruña, May 25 (EFE) .- The International Peripheral Film Festival (S8), which will be held in A Coruña and in online format, from May 28 to June 6, will screen more than 130 films and will feature more than fifteen countries represented, explained the director of the festival, Ángel Rueda.
The XII edition of the contest has been presented this morning at the Domus, in an act in which representatives of the City Council of A Coruña, the Xunta de Galicia, the Provincial Council and Spanish Cultural Action have participated.
In his speech, the director highlighted that this event, which combines face-to-face and online content, takes up internationalization again in order to “defend a cinema without borders”. Installations, performances, projections, professional meetings and educational projects will take place in five venues in A Coruña and on the online platform.
One of the strong points will be the premiere of the double program dedicated to the figure of José Val del Omar, a Spanish Cultural Action project, designed for the internationalization of the figure of the Granada-born.
The German filmmaker Deborah S. Phillips, the British James Edmonds, the Japanese Tomonari Nishikawa or the Sevillian Bruno Delgado Ramo, are some of the artists who will come to the city. In addition, the Galician Helena Girón and the Canarian Samuel Delgado will star in the Sinais spotlight.
“Creating online and face-to-face content is a double effort,” stressed Rueda, who has encouraged citizens to join the festival through its online platform, which will broadcast open content. He has also advanced that they will carry out projects in the United States and at the Rotterdam International Film Festival (Netherlands), in the return of the festival to its usual format in which they carry out initiatives throughout the year in different parts of the world.
They will also develop content for the Spanish Culture Center of Mexico. Three international agents will advise projects in development. Another novelty this year will be the holding of meetings at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Pontevedra and in Cuenca.
For his part, the spokesman for the local government of A Coruña, José Manuel Lage, has praised that “culture is life, it is economy and is fundamental in the life of a people”, for which he thanked the management and sponsors the festival’s involvement “year after year” in “a first-rate show.”
“Cinema is an art that goes far beyond large productions”, stressed Lage, who has valued “the love” of the people of Coruña and Coruña for the seventh art.
Also, the provincial deputy for Culture, Xurxo Couto, has stressed that the S8 is “a consolidated festival that is committed to the avant-garde and cultural encounter”, as well as “a benchmark call, of international will, but that also strives to to spread Galician creation ”.
Meanwhile, the director of the Galician Axencia das Industrias Culturais (Agadic), Jacobo Sutil, has stressed that the audiovisual sector in Galicia has “great weight” and has thanked the effort to retake the presence, as well as the institutional collaboration and participation of sponsors, whose support for culture is “fundamental”.
In addition, the director of Spanish Cultural Action programming, Isabel Izquierdo, who has participated telematically in the presentation, has vindicated the “undoubted commitment” of the organism with this event.
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