28/05/2025 - From 3 to 8 June, the Galician city will host works by experimental audiovisual artists including Carlos Castillo, Betzy Bromberg, Jeannette Muñoz and Daniel Cugliandolo

(S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico will once again transform the city of A Coruña into the world capital of avant-garde cinema. The sixteenth edition of the film festival will take place from 3 to 8 June. Over one hundred films from 15 countries will be screened during the festival, featuring pioneering filmmakers and key figures in experimental cinema, such as Venezuelan Carlos Castillo, American Betzy Bromberg, Chilean Jeannette Muñoz and Argentinian Daniela Cugliandolo. All will attend the festival to present an overview of their work, with many of the films being shown in Spain for the first time.

This edition stands out with more than thirty world premieres, featuring works by established artists such as those mentioned above, as well as by young creators returning to the festival as filmmakers after previously participating as students in the Paraíso section, the INPUT professional workshops, and the BAICC artistic residencies. In doing so, the Mostra fulfils one of its key aims: to promote creativity and build a community around avant-garde cinema in a non-competitive environment.

Additionally, 2025 marks the 60th anniversary of the appearance of the Super 8 format, which gives the festival its name and is celebrated for having enabled greater freedom in the early careers of many internationally acclaimed filmmakers. One such artist is Venezuelan Carlos Castillo, who presented his Super 8 films at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival and will now have his first European retrospective in A Coruña.

Betzy Bromberg will also revisit her career at (S8), beginning with her early work in 1970s New York. She leads a line-up of female creators in this year’s programme, in which women represent two-thirds of the programme.  Among them is Daniela Cugliandolo, a key figure in preserving the Super 8 format in Argentina.

A new addition to this year's Mostra is the expanded Sinais section, showcasing 21 Galician and Spanish titles by creators such as Carlos M. Peñalver, Laura Moreno Bueno, Natalia Rabaneda, Berio Molina and FLESH.WEBM (Lidia Rodríguez). The Sinais Latin America section will feature seven short films from auteurs including Elena Pardo, Marcela Cuevas and Cecilia Araneda.

One of the festival’s most anticipated events is its performative film sessions, with several films premiering specifically for the occasion.  In the Desbordamientos section, Brenda Boyer will present Turtle [chromatic passage #4], a work developed through the BAICC artistic residencies. The Tekno Fantasy collective will present La belleza en los rayos fracturados (Beauty in the Fractured Rays of Light), a piece developed in the Medialab at Tabakalera (Donostia) by artists Laura Ibáñez López, Camila Reyes and Iker González.

The last session of Desbordamientos will spotlight two experimental film labs: Mire (Nantes) and Laia Coop (Porto). It will open with a programme of films by Aurélie Percevault and Antoine Ledroit, followed by the performance Smokeshow, by Aurélie Percevault and Pierre Pierre Pierre. The section will conclude with Wandering Projection, the result of a joint project between the two labs, developed as part of the European film research programme SPECTRAL.

(Translated from Spanish)