The Huelva Festival closes its Official Section with fourteen Ibero-American films
Topics Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva
The Huelva event will hold its 52nd edition from November 13 to 21 with twelve feature films in competition and two out of competition, among them titles selected at Toronto, Locarno, Cannes and Berlin.
The Huelva Festival of Ibero-American Cinema has closed the Official Section of its 52nd edition, which will be held from November 13 to 21. Twelve feature films will compete for the Colón de Oro, plus two screenings out of competition.
The latest films in competition
The four final additions to the competition are «Después de Elena», by Shawn Garry; «Las flores de Julia», by Cris Tapia Marchiori; «A margem do rio», by Matheus Farias and Enock Carvalho, and «La vida es», by the Mexican Lorena Villarreal.
«Después de Elena» is a co-production of Chile, Colombia and Italy starring the Chilean actor Alfredo Castro. «Las flores de Julia», an Argentine-Chilean co-production, features Paulina García in the role of mother. «A margem do rio» comes from Brazil and Germany with the Special Jury Prize of the Locarno Festival. And «La vida es» has been selected at the Göteborg, Mar del Plata and Chicago festivals.
Out of competition
Also to be screened, out of competition, are «El deshielo», by Manuela Martelli, a co-production of Chile, Spain, Mexico and the United States that screened at Cannes and San Sebastián and is a candidate to represent Chile at the 2027 Oscars, and «Chicas tristes», by Fernanda Tovar, a co-production of Mexico, Spain and France awarded in the Generation 14plus section of the Berlin Festival.
The complete Official Section
The twelve feature films in competition are:
- «Pepita la pistolera», by Lucía Puenzo (Argentina)
- «Funk», by Aly Muritiba (Brazil)
- «Matapanki», by Diego Fuentes (Chile)
- «Soy Mario», by Sharon Kleinberg (Mexico)
- «El mundo de Gugu», by Allan Deberton (Brazil)
- «Los días libres», by Lucila Mariani (Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, France)
- «El bovino de los cuernos curvos», by Omar E. Ospina Giraldo (Colombia)
- «Quatro meninas», by Karen Suzane (Brazil, Netherlands)
- «Después de Elena», by Shawn Garry (Chile, Colombia, Italy)
- «Las flores de Julia», by Cris Tapia Marchiori (Argentina, Chile)
- «A margem do rio», by Matheus Farias and Enock Carvalho (Brazil, Germany)
- «La vida es», by Lorena Villarreal (Mexico)
The festival, according to its organization, brings together productions from Chile, Colombia, Italy, Argentina, Brazil, Germany and Mexico that address family ties, identity, memory or intolerance.