The film ‘One Love’ by Isabel Coixet based on the novel of the same name by Sara Mesa and released in 2023, will inaugurate next Friday, January 17, a new season of the Cinefórum of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) in Ibiza. The screening will be at 6.15 pm and will take place at the university headquarters of the UIB, in Vila. The film will be commented by the Argentine filmmaker Daniela Cugliandolowho in a previous cycle showed her avant-garde films.
The cycle will continue at the same venue on January 24 at 6:30 p.m. with the film ‘I hired a hit man’by Aki Kaurismaki. The pro-mental health group of the Colegio Oficial de Enfermería (Official College of Nursing) (Coaib) will participate in the discussion of this 1990 Finnish feature film with a parodic tone, short dialogues, austere staging and very sober performances, including that of J.P. Leaud, François Truffaut’s fetish actor.
A dose of romanticism
‘Past Lives’, by Celine Song, will be screened on february 7 at 6.15 pm at the Conservatory of Music and Dance of Ibiza. The successful American romantic drama will be presented by Carmen Vidal, an Ibizan filmmaker who has lived for years in the United States.
The program will continue on February 21 at 6.15 pm also at the Conservatory of Ibiza with a classic, ‘Vertigo’one of the most outstanding works of Alfred Hitchcock and one of the greatest films of all time. Carles Fabregatwriter, promoter of multiple cultural initiatives and film critic with a long career, will comment on this complex drama and its Freudian background.
Also included in the new cycle ‘Objeto de estudio’, by Raúl Alaejos (Spain, 2024), which won the jury prize at the sixth edition of MajorDocs (Mallorca Documentary Film Festival) and will compete at the upcoming festival La Alternativa, at the CCCB in Barcelona. It will be screened in collaboration with the Ibizacinefest festival on March 3 at 7 pm at the UIB headquarters with the presence of its director.
The cycle will end on March 14 at 6.15 pm with another classic, ‘Chinatown’a dark and captivating 1974 film that immerses the viewer in a plot of corruption in Los Angeles. With it Roman Polanski made a tribute to the film noir of the 1940s. Joaquim Seguíphotographer and great film buff, will present this session at the Conservatory of Ibiza.
The screenings of the cycle are at original version with subtitles (VOSE) and are free of charge.
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