Today we're revealing the festival's focus and announcing the first four films from the programme for 2013! For its 36th year, Göteborg International Film Festival has decided to spotlight Chilean film. 40 years after Pinochet's military coup d'état, Chile's film industry is once again blooming with a wave of young Chilean filmmakers finding success abroad.
During the military dictatorship, many people were persecuted and killed as a result of their political opinions. The o...
This year at the open of the 2nd annual Aruba Film Festival (AIFF), one of the films to kick off the festival was the acclaimed Goya award winning film THE LIFE OF FISH (Chile, 2011) by the brilliant director Matias Bize. This was Chile’s 2011 Oscar Entry film and since its world premier in at Venice Film Festival I have seen the film several times now and it remains my favorite indie film of the year. Matias Bize's 'LA VIDA DE LOS PECES' (The Life of Fish) is so minimalist and yet such a hear...
Director: Martín Seeger.
Piotr Herroll’s family had to leave Nacrovia and now lives in exile in Santiago de Chile. Young Piotr is sent to find work. A friend points him out that the Chilean State supports artists; so, he comes up with a play about the story of his unknown country. This carries several problems: he must have Chilean actors, who are less concerned about the meaning of his work. Also, his citizenship credentials are not very reliable. And the language barrier will result in a series of mix ups that will end altering the play. The film is spoken in a made up language, Nacrovese. The continuing use of subtitles is incorporated into the plot games, making Piotr Herroll a unpredictable hero and turning the film into a sharp comedy about the essence of the Chilean self.
This year at the open of Palm Springs Film Festival, 2011, I started my first film screening day with the Latin American
Oscar Buzz Award film for Chile: Matias Bize's 'La Vida de los Peces' (The Life of Fish)
This film was so perfect and heart rendering that I spent the rest of the festival having seen one of the best of the fest on the first day...
What can I say?
'The Life of Fish' is about a young man, Andres (played by Santiago Cabrera), who returns home to Santiago, Chi...
The Life of Fish
La vida de los Peces
Chile, 2010, 83 Minute Running Time
On January 07, 2011, La vida de los Peces, (The Life of Fish) had its US premier at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
Director Matias Bize was there to talk about his experience making the film and answered questions afterward.
Additional Countries: France. US Premiere. Topics: Drama, Romance. Program: Awards Buzz : Best Foreign Language Fil...
Despite the recent earthquake, the government of Chile is going ahead with plans for development in the cinema, tourism and cultural sector. Having invested in hundreds of thousands of Euros to boost the ideal setting of Chile for film production for overseas filmmakers, the campaign is now bearing fruition with the ongoing lensing of the ultimate James Bond movie QUANTUM FOR SOLACE, set in that country.
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Raul Ruiz
Despite the recent earthquake, the government of Chile is going ahead with plans for development in the cinema, tourism and cultural sector. Having invested in hundreds of thousands of Euros to boost the ideal setting of Chile for film production for overseas filmmakers, the campaign is now bearing fruition with the ongoing lensing of the ultimate James Bond movie QUANTUM FOR SOLACE, set in that country.
For the last 20 years Chile has been considered one of the st...
Cine Las Americas is honored to announce the participation of Chile as the invited country for the 12th annual Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, scheduled for April 22 to 30 in Austin, Texas.Chile is the first invited nation to participate in a planned annual guest country program that Cine Las Americas started in 2009. The goal of this year's program is to create a space for the screening of films that represent the best and most successful of contemporary Chilean cinema, focusing...
Monday, November 5-----------CINEMA CHILE, a survey of contemporary films from the South American nation, comes to New York for an unprecedented survey of the trends, talents and templates of the next wave of Chilean film. The program will screen from Friday, November 9 to Thursday, November 15 at the Quad Cinema, one of New York's most adventurous art-house cinemas, located in the heart of Greenwich Village. CINEMA CHILE is a co-production between ProChile, the Chilean Trade Commission, th...
