Jacques Audiard's film, Oscar candidate from France, will be the production in charge of opening the film event in the spa city.

This movie, also, She is the French candidate for the Oscars; In addition, tributes and retrospectives to Argentine cinema are expected in the edition number 39 that the Festival has that will take place between Thursday 21 November and Sunday 1 from December. Japan, meanwhile, It will be the first invited country in the history of the meeting.

As for Argentine productions, “La tregua” by Sergio Renán will be screened, “The rebellious Patagonia”, by Héctor Olivera and “Painted Boquitas”, by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson. The latter will have a tribute within the framework of the 100 years after his birth.

“Emilia Pérez” is a film starring Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz and Edgar Ramírez. This production has just won two awards at Cannes, Best Actress, distributed among their 4 protagonists, and that of the jury for Audiard, and has also established itself as one of the favorites for the imminent race for the Oscar.

The programming that Japan will offer as a guest country has yet to be announced., historical event within the Festival. Although the visit of director Milwa Nishikawa did transcend, who will present a retrospective in which the multi-award-winning “Dear Doctor” by 2009 and his most recent work, “Under the Open Sky” de 2020. There will also be a retrospective of legendary filmmaker Sadao Yamanaka, in which you can see “Nezumikozo Jirochi” by 1933, “Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo” de 1935, “Priest of Darkness” de 1936 and “Humanity and paper balloons” by 1937.

Likewise, there will be a cycle dedicated to the Armenian director Sergei Parajanov in which 3 his films “The Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors” which won two awards at the Mar del Plata Festival of 1965, “The color of the pomegranate” 1969 and “The Legend of Suram Fortress” by 1985. As well, you can see a documentary about his work, “I Will Revenge this World with Love” de Zara Jian, which will have its Latin American premiere in the spa city.

For the retrospective celebrating the 70 festival years, in which titles that passed through Mar del Plata and then had an important national and international career will be screened again. “The Boss” by Fernando Ayala has already been confirmed. (1958), “The Venerable All” (1963), in what will also be a tribute to the recently deceased Manuel Antín, “Buenos Aires vice versa” by Alejandro Agresti (1996), “Pizza, “birra y faso” by Israel Adrián Caetano and Bruno Stagnaro (1997) and “The Broken Embrace” by Daniel Burman (2004).