Sold-out, He lived one of the most anticipated shows of the 34th edition of the International Film Festival of Mar de Plata, when American guitarist Lee Ranaldo the presented “Day against”, a performance produced with visual artist Leah Singer, that fuses theater and live music, where experimental prevails over the explicit narrative.

Visual projected on a giant screen are the backdrop to enhance the silhouette of the former Sonic Youth to show the movements and skill of this musician with his guitar. At the end of the show, which lasted over an hour- Ranaldo took a few minutes to take pictures and sign autographs.

At midnight, the public could enjoy one of the highest moments of this edition: Generation section VHS offered a double program in tribute to "The Exorcist", lovers of this classic terror had the opportunity to see on the big screen the uncut version of its director and the screening of the documentary "Leap of Faith", in which William Friedkin account avatars filming.

The only premiere of the day International Competition was in charge of the Portuguese director Pedro Costa, who presented his film "Vitalina Varela", a drama that takes place in the capital Lisbon and sample away from the tourist stereotypes. His previous work, "Horse Money" (2014) It was part of the International Competition of the 29th Festival.

Competition in Altered States was projected "Danses macabres, skeletons and other fantasies ", a documentary co-produced by France, Portugal and Switzerland, in which the directors Pierre Léon, Rita Azevedo Gomes and Jean Louis Schefer trying to cross a line between the end of the Middle Ages and early Modern Europe. "Luis Scheffer asked me to go to visit. I found it an honor but I knew I was falling into a trap said Scheffer-. The catch is that when he writes a book always need someone to listen, because it is an extremely complex work. He wanted to use me as a guinea pig ".

The other film that was screened in this category was "neighborhood", a documentary that plays with the contrasts of the passage of time, Spanish filmmaker George Chirro. "A growing into a place you set a series of links identity to be strengthening as the experiences. When you are away for a long time and come back a fracture occurs. Things are not like before", Chirro wrote about his film.

Latin American Competition section had two premieres: "Amid the maze", It is the debut of Peruvian Solomon Pérez, transiting the borders between documentary and fiction. "Febre A" was filmed by Maya Da-Rin between the Amazon and the urban scene, and proposes an inquiry into the strength and fragility of the body. The director, native of Rio de Janeiro, He said of the filming process: "They were going to Manaus months talking to people, to know their reality and look for actors. Most I had never acted. There were days of much dialogue, tell stories in Portuguese and in Tucano. Throughout this process was finished writing the script. In fact, Justin history tells his grandson came out of those talks”.

Competition in Argentina, two female looks screens conquered the Silver Sea. "Home", Maura Delpero, and "The poets visit Juana Bignozzi", Laura Citarella and Mercedes Halfon. The film reflects the pain Dapero, loneliness and uncertainty of two teenage mothers who share their lives in a religious institution. “It's an intimate film, and what I wanted was to tell the stories of women behind those tummies, behind those veils. Show teenage pregnancy as this very powerful emotional short. But working in a religious place I realized it was not the only paradox, living with the nuns was even stronger”, said Delpero.

Meanwhile, Halfon and Citarella explores the work and legacy of the poet Argentina Juana Bignozzi, with the determination to make known his work. “Juana moved us a little life. The film produced us a big transformation, which he is to have known this writer”, Halfon said.

By last, competition Original Soundtrack was presented the documentary “Stud Free Pub (A good story)”, de Ariel Topo Raiman, which traces the history of one of the local mythical scene of the Buenos Aires rock.

In the Thunderer Concert by Campari launch it was carried out in the first volume of "Notebooks Review 1. Latin America's new map ". The book compiles texts by new authors who write Latin America and authorial critical views on the cinema of the region. "Making books is an important part of a festival, as special activities and programming that interweave. This form of the proposed framework of the Festival proposes in ten days ", said the director of the Festival, Barrionuevo Cecilia, curator of the work with the developer Marcelo Alderete. The presentation also were some of the authors of the compilation.

The Short Festival 72 Hours was also part of the day in the 34th edition of the International Film Festival of Mar de Plata. the meeting, which is held every year in Cañada de Gómez, Santa Fe province and in conjunction with the Festival of Cinema of Mar de Plata, Short replicates its Experience 72 Hours at the Faculty of Architecture of Mar de Plata with high school students marplatenses, that after today's presentation at the Faculty of Architecture will be challenged to create three short films in two days, to be screened on Saturday, at the Museum MAR.