• PAWLIKOWSKI “reconquers Gijón" with Ida

    November 23, 2013
    The decision of the jury of the 51st edition of Gijon International Film Festival that will officially close the curtain tonight during the closing ceremony, when the awards will be hended out

  • La distancia más larga, the first contact of Spanish audiences with Claudia Pinto’s first film

    November 17, 2013
    “It’s director’s determination, will and even stubbornness” invaded also a crew capable of solving the unsolvable and made them “give their hearts out”. La distancia más larga is the first Spanish film to be screened in the festival.

  • Christophe Offenstein: Lonely Together

    November 17, 2013
    Christophe Offenstein is one of the great professionals of french cinema who have turned this country in the most poweful in europe. Guillaume canet’s trusted cinematographer, debuts now as a director with en solitaire, a modern sea odissey full of emotion and beauty which we have enjoyed before its commercial release in Rellumes.

  • Jiri Menzel, Full throttle

    November 17, 2013
    The first memory is from 1966, when Hollywood decides to give the Oscar to the Best Film in a Foreign Language to a humble Czech film with a fantastic title: Closely watched Trains (Ostre sledované vlaki). The film, disguised as a small story, dealt with the huge topic of resistance against the German invasion. The adaptation of a novel by Bohumil Hrabal was Jirí Menzel’s first film as a director, and he managed to infuse each of the frames with the mysterious Central European gene that makes tales coming from the former Republic unique.

  • Pawel Pawlikowski’s return to Gijón, a matter of loyalty

    November 17, 2013
    Pawel Pawlikowski’s latest film, Ida, is screened in Gijón competing in the official section. The Polish director returns to the festival after winning in the year 2000 with his film The last resort. He admits that winning again would be nice, but also that it “doesn’t worry him much”.

  • Patrice Leconte President of the Jury

    November 16, 2013
    I hope to watch good films, important ones that make me feel.. I will be a curious spectator, one that will react more on his feelings than on his intellect

  • The Film Festival of Gijon inaugurates its 51st edition with a tribute to the great names of the spanish cinema

    November 16, 2013
    Vicente Aranda, Carmelo Gomes and Carmen Frias, received awards for their careers in a gala that was finalised by the French director Patrice Leconte with the premiere of his last work “ A promise”
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