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Winners of XI BAFICI

Today at midday took place the official announcement of award winners of the eleventh edition of BAFICI. The favourite of practically the entire specialised critics, Portuguese “Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto” by Miguel Gomes was chosen Best Feature Film in the International Competition, where German Maren Ade garnered the award for Best Director for her remarkable film “Everyone Else.” Also in this [...]

Audience Awards

The winner of the International Selection was Ik-June Yang’s “Breathless” (South Korea). As for the Argentine Competition Selection, the chosen one was “8 Semanas” by Alejandro Montiel and Diego Schipani, carried out with the subsidy of Fondo Metropolitano de la Cultura, las Artes y las Ciencias –Audiovisual Line.

Other winners of the public choice were “Yo, Natalia” as Best Short Film and “Básic [...]

Nothing Gets Lost, Everything Transforms

The designers Constanza Martínez and Romina Goransky directed the tailoring of a thousand bags made with advertising banners from the 2008 edition of BAFICI, with an aim to recycle and also as a token of the tenth anniversary of the festival.

They worked with a patchwork technique that blended different textures and colours which call to mind the ones used by the Festival in its graphic image.

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After the Victory

Portuguese newspaper Público in its online version reported the new international success of Miguel Gomes’s “Aquele Querido Mes de Agosto”, under the title “Aquele... Winner of the Film Festival in Buenos Aires.” The daily highlighted the impressive record of merits so far received by this “fusion of documentary and fiction set in the summer festivities in Beira Serra”: Gomes’s film piles up award [...]

BAFICI in Figures

Twelve days of multiple screenings, special activities and filmgoers zeal went by for the delight of a total 245 thousand people who attended this eleventh edition of BAFICI. After the count, some aspects reveal the striking scale of a festival that keeps growing year after year.

The total number of features, shorts and open air screenings adds up to 417 films in 1069 screenings including the 14 [...]

Mauricio Macri