The National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts announced that the INCAA 90 ° Latitude Space located in Antarctica will be valued, after having reopened its doors last year.

opened in 2005, the room was closed in 2018, rehabilitated last year and will be reconditioned as a result of a joint effort of the Ministries of Culture, External relationships, Defense of the Nation and INCAA.

Within the framework of the 15th Ushuaia International Mountain Film Festival (Ficm) and in a link by videoconference held last night between Buenos Aires, Antarctica and Ushuaia, the Secretary of Malvinas, Antarctica and South Atlantic from the Chancellery, Daniel Filmus with the President of INCAA, Luis Puenzo, announced that the Bicentennial Hall will be re-equipped and restored.

“It is very important to bring culture and cinema to those Antarctic latitudes where Argentina has maintained an uninterrupted presence for some time. 117 years", Filmus highlighted who expressed all his support and that of the national government for the “enormous research task that our scientists carry out in Antarctica, something that makes us proud because it has to do with sovereignty, but also with the future of the country and of humanity "

“We have been working with the idea of ​​Argentina Bicontinental, a cultural change to affirm the notion that our territory extends from the Quiaca to the South Pole and we can do it thanks to its presence on the white continent ", stated the Secretary.

Meanwhile, Puenzo considered that “it is a pride that we have an INCAA space in those latitudes and that they are part of the Festival; We are happy to confirm that we already have the highest quality equipment that will replace the equipment that was, we hope they will be working in October and with INCAA programming »he added« tell us that we will be able to program on request, in addition to the usual programming, You can ask us what you want to see, to accompany them throughout their campaign at the base, it is very exciting to be here sharing this activity. "

In the southernmost cinema in the country, films are screened for the entertainment of scientific personnel, technical and military personnel who remain throughout the year at the Carlini base located about 3.700 kilometers from Buenos Aires and 1.200 from Ushuaia.

The program of the new edition of FICMUS includes Argentine Antarctic film productions shot during the 20th century. Anticipate the screening of "Nunatak Pantera" (2021) a documentary short film about the first Argentine technical climbing in Antarctica; "White Silence" (1959-60), a documentary dedicated to the ARA Gral Icebreaker campaign. San Martín and a series of advertisements shot at the Brown Base (1970); productions that are part of our memory recovered by the Argentine Antarctic Institute (IAA) and the Buenos Aires Film Museum. Later, these films and others of international competition will be available on the web pages of both institutions..

The event also had the participation of the Director of the Argentine Antarctic Institute, Walter Mac Cormack; from the National Director of the Antarctic, Patricia Ortúzar; the head of the Carlini Base, Major Fernando Sosa; and the Director of the Museum of Cinema «Pablo Ducrós Hicken», Paula Félix Didier; the vice president of INCAA, Nicolás Batlle and the Deputy Manager of Federal Development INCAA, Cecilia Ten.

In the Hall of the Carlini base, as in all Argentine Antarctic bases, A strict protocol is applied that keeps Argentine Antarctica free from Covid 19 since the start of the pandemic.