BAFICI Announces 2014 Selection

 

The Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival (BAFICI) has announced the lineup for its 16th edition. In the official competition, eight Latin American films will participate: the Argentine film Algunas chicas (pictured below) by Santiago Palavecino, La Salada by Juan Martín Hsu, and Mauro by Hernán Rosselli; the Brazilian film Castanha by Davi Pretto; the Chilean films Naomi Campbell – No es fácil convertirse en otra persona by Nicolás Videla and Camila Donoso, and Volantín cortao by Diego Ayala and Aníbal Jofre; the Ecuadorean film Carlitos by José Antonio Guayasamín; and the Peruvian film El mudo by Daniel and Diego Vega.

Additionally, three Argentinean films will participate in the main slate, out of competition: La ballena va llena by Daniel Santoro, Juan Carlos Capurro, Pedro Roth, Tata Cedrón and Marcelo Céspedes, El color que cayó del cielo by Sergio Wolf, and Cosano: La vida secreta de un vestido by Diego Levy and Pablo Levy.

In the Argentinean competition, 15 productions have been selected: David Rubio's 13 puertas, Inés María Barrionuevo's Atlántida, Edgardo Cozarinsky's Carta a un padre, Matías Lucchesi's Ciencias naturales, Alejo Moguillansky and Fia-Stina Sandlund's El escarabajo de oro, Benjamín Naishtat's Historia del miedo / History of Fear, Martín Shanly's Juana a los 12, Julián Montero Ciancio's Mientras estoy cantando, Daniel de la Vega's Necrofobia en 3D, Rodrigo Moreno's Réimon, Gustavo Fontán's El rostro, Santiago Loza's Si je suis perdu, c’est pas grave, Rosendo Ruiz's Tred D, Leandro Naranjo's El último verano, and Gustavo Tarrío and Yael Tujsnaider's Una canción coreana.

In the "Vanguardia y Género" (Vanguard and Genre) section, three Latin American films are competing: the Argentine film Living Stars by Gastón Duprat y Mariano Cohn, the Brazilian film São Silvestre by Lina Chamie, and the Chilean film La isla by Dominga Sotomayor and Katarzyna Klimkiewicz, plus the Canadian-Mexican-Filipino co-production film La última película by Raya Martin and Mark Peranson, and the Portuguese-Brazilian fillm Fernando que ganhou um pássaro do mar by Felipe Bragança.

Showing over 400 films, the 16th edition of BAFICI will take place April 2-13 in Argentina.