Festival Filmar –
A 26e edition all in feminine power
From November 15, the Latino cinema event will offer 70 films, including 25 in previews. Honor to the ladies!
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One of the posters, magnificent as usual, for the 2024 edition: muscle and ladies.
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- The Filmar en América Latina festival will take place in Geneva in November.
- Seventy films will be presented, including forty-three directed by women.
- Themes covered include justice, ecology and human rights.
- Initiatives aim to make cinema more inclusive and accessible.
Geneva will travel to the heart of Latin America from November 15 to 24. For ten days, the 26e edition of Festival Filmar in América Latina, placed under the sign of women and their life force, will offer 70 films, including 25 in preview.
Among the 39 feature films presented, almost half are by female directors, rejoice the organizers. And when women film, they talk without taboo about being in the world, justice, corruption, motherhood, human rights, sexuality and love.
Other common threads of the programming, music and rhythms that make the screen and the bodies vibrate, ecology and environmental justice, oppression and insubordination.
Out of the clichés
The 2024 version is marked by several award-winning films at international festivals. Three of them were selected to represent their country at the 2025 Oscars: “Reinas” by Klaudia Reynicke for Switzerland, “Emilia Pérez” by Jacques Audiard for France and “Sujo-Hijo de Sicario” by Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez for Mexico, which evokes the scourge of cartels.
Among the other films on display, the sensual “Baby” by Brazilian Marcelo Caetano and the highly acclaimed “Dispararon al pianista” by Fernando Trueba, an animated film about a Brazilian pianist prodigy who mysteriously disappeared in 1976. The feature film by Argentinian director Celina Murga, “El aroma del pasto recién cortado” (The aroma of grass that has just been cut) on the theme of infidelity was produced by Martin Scorsese.
14 filmmakers in town
The festival will welcome seventeen guests, including fourteen directors from Latin America. The major figures of cinema Fernando Trueba (Spain) and Ernesto Daranas (Cuba) will notably travel to Geneva, as will the actress and director Grace Passô. Filmar also offers several works by this iconic figure of the Brazilian artistic scene, who boldly explores questions of identity.
The event, which aims to break away from the clichés sticking to the Latin American continent, also mixes genres: from thriller to animation, including romance, drama and documentary, recall the organizers. The films come from fifteen countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic and Venezuela.
Participation et inclusion
Among the new features, Filmar announces actions to make culture and cinema more inclusive, including suspended tickets. This solidarity practice consists of buying a ticket by paying a little more. The supplement is donated to benefit people who could not afford a cinema ticket.
Another participatory project, Filmar_juntEs is intended for anyone who has just arrived in Switzerland, with no other prerequisite than being Spanish-speaking. It will facilitate access to the festival. Some films will be shown in certain Geneva municipalities, free of charge. Participants will vote for their favorite film.
film, from November 15 to 24, various locations. Program: www.filmar.ch.
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