The 40and edition of the International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA), which will take place from March 15 to 27 online and indoors, will present more than 200 works from around forty countries, including 50 in world premiere.
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Five Canadian projects, including three from Quebec presented in world premiere, are in feature film competition this year. The documentary I lift myself up, by Hugo Latulippe, will open the festival. Actor and playwright Emmanuel Schwartz will present his very first feature film, Pigeon Project. Jérémie Battaglia and Johanne Madore carry the film The sum of our dreams, also proposed in the feature films category. Each of the three Quebec works will be presented in the presence of the filmmakers and their teams during the festival.
The world’s biggest celebration of films about art will be held under the sign of “renewal, dialogue and celebration”, it was announced on Thursday, as the complete program was unveiled. More than 1000 films were submitted for this edition, a record. The works in the running will be broadcast online and in theaters.
Like every year, FIFA will feature works from dozens of countries. Some 46 nations are represented across the lineup this year.
“FIFA gives a voice to artists from the five continents, past and present, who, by the fundamental act of offering us their art to watch, listen to, experience, share their worlds with us. Their films contain all the desires, fears, anger, joys, tears, vulnerabilities and ecstasies of our world,” said Philippe U. del Drago, general and artistic director of the event, in a press release.
Six prizes will be awarded by the juries, including the Grand Prize and the Jury Prize. The jurors of the international feature film competition are the Quebec actress Evelyne Brochu, the director of Lo schermo dell’arte Silvia Lucchesi (Italy), the programmer of the Sunnny Side of the Doc Jean-Jean Peretti (France), the author of director Vincent Rimbaux (Brazil/France) and the programmer and curator at the National Gallery of Art, Joanna Raczynska (United States).
Myriam Charles (Montreal), Audrey Genois (Montreal) and Saghoon Lee (South Korea) form the jury for the short film competition.
The FIFA Experimental section will bring together for this edition 15 works, including several never before seen, created by artists from various countries. In the lot, two feature films by Dora Garcia, highlighting the history of feminisms.
The Art Film Festival will present a series of portraits, recounting the journeys of Charles Trenet, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joan Mitchell, Marguerite Duras and many others. A special event, the Nuit de la danse, will celebrate dance and cinema in a seven-hour marathon of screenings at Théâtre Outremont.
At Place des Arts and Holt Renfrew Ogilvy’s Tudor Hall, FIFA will erect two broadcasting spaces open to all where it will broadcast free and continuous cinema pop-ups of carte blanche by Aseman Sabet, Marley Hansen as well as the music video selection of new programmer Leticia Trandafir.