June 30, 2024, 11:00
The Municipal Theatre will host two world premieres of films selected for this year’s Proxima competition, which is open to progressive filmmakers from around the world.
Paula Ďurinová, a Slovak filmmaker, visual artist and writer based in Berlin, where she studied film and ran a gallery, will present her feature-length debut Lapilli at 5 pm. In her film, the director sets out to wander among varied rock formations in order to try and come to terms with the loss of her grandparents. Her fragile and deep work provides a personal reckoning, where different stages of grief unfold and a perspective opens shaped with empathy for minerals and a life long extinct. This modernist funeral mass interspersed with profound observations about natural phenomena and humans, speaks of an inner strength in a unique cinematic language.
The delegation for the film Night Has Come will meet at the Municipal Theatre at 7 pm to present the story of young volunteers signing up for a challenging military program in Peru. The film’s director Paolo Tizón has consistently explored the role of the army in modern times. In his feature debut, he searches for the answers what it really means to be a professional soldier, with the intention to show everything that goes on in the barracks, even the unbearable things. For ten months, he closely followed with his camera a group of young men eager to fight. “I salvage brief glimpses of beauty and vulnerability amidst violence in a world created precisely to destroy these nuances. I wish to shed light on universal themes such as war, masculinity and violence,” says the director.
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