Bafici: the 10 must-see films of the independent film festival

He Bafici It opens its 27th edition this Wednesday, which will run until next Sunday the 25th.

The opening performance, which will be held at the Presidente Alvear Cinema Theater and in the Lugones Room of the San Martín Theater, will be with a Mar del Plata version of Pride and prejudiceby Matías Szulanski, who already had that honor a couple of years ago and is, along with Lucía Seles, one of the two Argentine filmmakers with three new films in the exhibition.

Beyond the usual quota of rescues and memories of the cinema of yesteryear, the festival has long been characterized by having focused on novelties and discoveries rather than on the attempt to provide a global overview of current audiovisual news.

The following are some of the most recognized films on the schedule that are already making noise or promise imminent chaos.

Biographical drama that narrates the night of March 31, 1943, when lyricist Lorenz Hart (who together with composer Richard Rodgers formed one of the most important creative duos in the history of American musicals) escapes from the premiere of the musical Oklahoma!written by his former partner, and ends the night in a bar. Ethan Hawke plays the co-author of My Funny Valentine and Blue Moonamong other hit songs, in the latest real-time whim from the filmmaker Before dawn.

Thursday 16, at 12:15, Cinépolis Recoleta 3

Kristen Stewart He makes his directorial debut with this film that is based on the 2011 memoirs of writer Lidia Yuknavitch. Imogen Poots steps into the shoes of the protagonist on a journey that begins in a childhood marked by her father’s physical abuse, goes through competitive swimming, destructive relationships and addiction, until she finds her place in the world of writing. The protagonist of the saga Twilight surprises with a film filmed in 16mm that approaches the experimental.

Friday the 17th, at 3:25 p.m., Lugones Room

The king of true crime local Alejandro Hartmann (The photographer and the postman: The crime of Cabezas and Carmel: Who killed María Marta?) reconstructs the story of Bernardina Bolla de Murano, “the poisoner of Montserrat”, who in the late ’70s murdered her friends to hide a series of scams. The documentary covers Yiya’s transformation into a popular culture icon for her charisma and self-confidence, which she showed off on TV during the ’90s after her release, and her son Martín’s current struggle to expose his mother’s true face.

Sunday 19, at 2:50 p.m., Cinépolis Houssay 2

Soledad Silveyra travels to the past to meet Carlos Perciavalle again in Laguna del Sauce, a place they shared for years with China Zorrilla, and in her memories from Esteñas the shared adventures of yesteryear resonate. Alejandro Maci returns to the documentary after María Luisa Bemberg: The echo of my voice to tell the story of another fundamental woman in our cinema.

Monday 20th, at 8:05 p.m., Cinépolis Recoleta 2

A recently separated unnamed actress decides to return to independent cinema after twelve years in which she dedicated herself to raising her son in the new Korean film Hong Sang-soo, a great Bafici classic. The filmmaker focuses on a single day in the actress’s life, which he divides into segments and once again resorts to black and white and long fixed shots occasionally interrupted by his irresistible zoom.

Tuesday 21, at 2:35 p.m., 25 de Mayo Cultural Center

The director of Beautiful task investigates once again the deep traces of colonialism in this adaptation of the play Combat of black and dogsby Bernard-Marie Koltès. Isaach de Bankolé, Matt Dillon and Mia McKenna-Bruce are the protagonists of the struggle of a man who demands, from the other side of the fence, the foreman of a European construction company located in West Africa for the body of his dead brother.

Wednesday the 22nd, at 8:55 p.m., 25 de Mayo Cultural Center

The first feature film of the protagonist of The Angel and simon of the mountain co-directed with music video director Lucas A. Vignale, it follows a nine-year-old boy who lives in a rural town, where his father trains him on the malambo, and escapes by train to Buenos Aires, a city he only knows through cinema. Toto Ferro and Vignale seek to approach, in this debut with non-professional protagonists, the cinema of Leonardo Favio and his disciple Luis Ortega.

Thursday 23rd, at 11:40, Cinépolis Recoleta 3

The French actress proposes, in her debut as a director, to move away from cinema a little to immerse herself fully in the process of artistic creation of a performance. Without avoiding the trials, joys and doubts that aesthetic production entails, the film reconstructs the process that she herself went through in In-Ithe show he performed in 2007 with the Bangladeshi choreographer and dancer Akram Khan, based on hundreds of hours of unpublished material from rehearsals.

Friday the 24th, at 6:50 p.m., Cinépolis Houssay 2

Lorena Vega and Jazmín Stuart star in Nicanor Loreti’s new film about two sisters, daughters of police officers, who decide to rob three financial companies in one day and raise the money necessary to bribe a prosecutor to save a friend, also the daughter of police officers, from going to jail. Loreti travels to Misiones to romanticize the genres once again and flirt with the assault thriller and the sitcom in a kind of ode to Thelma and Louise.

Saturday 25th, at 9pm, Cinearte Cacodelphia 2

The festival has its closing function with the latest from the director of Eleven and Sing Streetwhich pairs Paul Rudd’s wedding singer with Nick Jonas’ fading pop star. The meeting between them leads to an unforeseen milestone that provokes a stark fight between them for authorial recognition in this crazy comedy about ambition, friendship and, as always in Carney’s films, the transformative power of music.

Sunday 26, at 9:45 p.m., Alvear Theater Cinema