Via streaming and dedicated to the memory of the recently deceased filmmaker Pino Solanas, this Wednesday the program of the edition was announced 35 the Mar del Plata International Film Festival.

With a live broadcast made from his YouTube channel, the presentation featured the president of the prestigious meeting, Fernando Juan Lima and the artistic director of the Festival, Barrionuevo Cecilia.

Given the well-known health situation, this year the festival will offer the possibility of enjoying all its content for free, from the 21 al 29 November throughout the national territory.

Lima announced that the production that will kick off the meeting will be “La hora de los hornos, first part – Neocolonialism and violence " (1968), in tribute to the renowned director Fernando "Pino Solanas", recently deceased.

This film will be screened in the restored version of 2018, in an extensive work done on the original negative, hand in hand with the Cinematheque and National Image Archive (CINAIN) and the support of INCAA, in Gotika laboratories.

First, Lima stated that the wish is to “honor Pino for all that he did for our identity., nuestro cine y nuestra diversidad cultural” y agregó que la intención es “hacerlo con hechos”. In that context, the manager stated that “we think it is a good sign for an edition of resistance to return to that seminal work. It will be a tribute in action, tending to reaffirm that this festival, against all odds, never thought of suspending ".

At the same time, Barrionuevo explained that the Festival will have more than 100 films from all over the world and shared information about the sections, competitions and special activities that this year will make up the agenda of the international exhibition.

In this opportunity and beyond its seven traditional skills, the Mar del Plata International Film Festival will include an Official Selection Out of Competition, the now traditional Authors sections, Trajectories, Sea of ​​Girls and Boys and Zero Hour. There will also be special activities on new technologies, genre cinema, movie restoration, film criticism and analysis, among other, y la presentación de dos libros editados por el Festival.

"It is a delicate year, but also very challenging, In the world many festivals were postponed and canceled so for us it is an enormous joy and a privilege to be able to present this edition of the Festival. We cannot meet physically in the City of Mar del Plata, but we will be united throughout the country ", Barrionuevo stated.

All moviegoers will have access to six talks by great exponents, one of the most popular activities of the contest, by international figures such as Miranda July, Walter Hill, Albert Serra, Rita Azevedo Gómes, Roberto Minervini and Andrés Duque.

There will also be a prominent place to celebrate the trajectories of Norma Aleandro, Edgardo Cozarinsky and Manuel Antin, and tributes will be paid to Pino Solanas, María Luisa Bemberg and Rosario Bléfari.

For the third consecutive year, the Cinema and Gender Perspective Forum and the Young Critics and Jury Contest will be held, the latter co-organized with the Universidad del Cine (FUC). further, there will be samples of shorts made by ENERC students, of the Image and Sound Design career at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and Di Tella University.

At the same time, the Bank of the Argentine Nation (BNA) will also have your participation, with a sponsorship of the "Best Argentine Film Competition" awards, "Best Argentine short film" and "Best project in transit".