Presentation / Imagineindia 2013

The 12th edition of the Imagineindia International Film Festival (IIFF) will take place in Madrid (17-31 May, 2013) and Barcelona (July 2013).

In less than a month, the twelfth edition of Imagineindia arrives in Madrid. A total of 51 films will be shown in 3 venues : Filmoteca Española, Cineteca El Matadero, Intermediae El Matadero.

CATEGORIES :

Competition
Short films
Documentaries
Films on Gypsies
Australian films on aborigins
Walter Heynowski , Gerhard Scheumann Retrospective

COMPETITION

Nine films will compete to win the “Golden Chakra” at this edition. This section will start at the Filmoteca Española with the B.A. Pass screening on 17 may, with the presentation of Jesús Ferrero, then continues with the projections of the films Char, I Am, Alms for the Blind horse, The Tortoise an incarnation, Color of Sky, I.D.

At Intermediae will be screened the film Achal, while in Cineteca the iranian film Growing in the Wind.

The screenings of the films in Competition at Filmoteca Española will have presentations by Spanish famous artists such as Verónica Echegui, Juan Diego Botto, Angela Molina, Juan Diego, Chema Rodríguez, Gran Wyoming.

SHORT FILMS

Shorts from 8 countries will be screened at Filmoteca Española and Cineteca. To highlight films from two National Film Institutes of India cinema films:  Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (Calcutta) and Film and Television Institute of India (Pune).

DOCUMENTARIES

6 documentaries from 3 countries will be screened in the 3 venues of the festival. To highlight Celluloid Man, a biography of P.K. Nair, the first director of the film archive of India, Janadesh (popular verdict) on the protest movements in the India and Ceuta, douce prison, about the aspirations of immigrants in Ceuta.

FILMS ON GYPSIES

This section represented by a single film, Eldra (Timothy Lynn), about the Gypsies of Wales. Being a Northern and Gypsy community not very numerous but ancient in history, it draws attention to how they kept alive the legends and traditions of Roma people. The film will be presented by the Institute of Gypsy Culture, at Filmoteca Española.

AUSTRALIAN FILMS ON ABORIGINS

Through the film Art and Soul (two parts), of the producer Bridget Ikin, tells how despite the repression and its almost disappearing, the original settlers of Australia have managed to survive and rescue their memory through an art full of feelings.

RETROSPECTIVE OF WALTER HEYNOWSKI & GERHARD SCHEUMANN

Studio HS was a workshop of political documentaries based in East Berlin, capital of the GDR. Its founders were Walter Heynowski (born in 1927) and Gerhard Scheumann (1930-1998). Both were members of the Academy of Arts, and twice received the national prize of the GDR. For more than 15 years they occupied senior positions in the press, radio and television, before forming in 1965 an art collective together with cameraman Peter Hellmich.

Study HS was enormously productive, with 71 films in 26 years, among which stands out the films dedicated to Vietnam, with six films, five shorts and documentation. The images still have a great testimonial value and are historical documents that tell much about our recent past. Films like The thunder Gods, Hilton Hanoi, Pilots in Pijama, are the living and vivid memories of our recent past.

The Retro has been possible thanks to the collaboration of the Goethe Institute in Madrid.

COLLABORATORS

Directorate for film festivals (DFF)
Indian Embassy
Embassy of Vietnam
Filmoteca Española
Filmoteca de Catalunya
Instituto Goethe de Madrid
Cinemateca 
Intermediae
Casa de la India
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute of India
AISGE
Institute of Cinema of Madrid