The 30th edition of L’Alternativa - Barcelona Independent Film Festival will take place from 10 to 19 November in different venues around the city. Over 30 years, the event has welcomed the work of filmmakers from all over the world, discovering and showcasing emerging talent and focusing on key filmmakers in the history of cinema through retrospectives and specialised sections. This new event, which will open with Fallen Leaves [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], the new film by Aki Kaurismäki, will pay tribute to the Mexican filmmaker Tatiana Huezo with a retrospective dedicated to her filmography, in which her latest work, The Echo [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], Best Director in the Encounters section of the Berlinale, will be screened.

This year's L'Alternativa International Feature Films Official Selection includes ten feature films from a range of independent viewpoints. Our Body [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], by veteran documentary filmmaker Claire Simon, presented at the Berlinale Forum, which takes us into the gynaecological department of a Parisian hospital; Between Revolutions [+lire aussi :
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interview : Vlad Petri
fiche film], by Vlad Petri, about the meaning of the revolutions in Iran and Romania, winner of the FIPRESCI prize at the Berlinale Forum; Here [+lire aussi :
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interview : Bas Devos
fiche film], by Bas Devos, an ode to nature and human connection in an urban environment, winner of the Best Film Award in the Encounters section at the Berlinale; It's Raining in the House [+lire aussi :
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interview : Paloma Sermon-Daï
fiche film], Paloma Sermon-Daï's first feature film, winner of the Cannes Critics' Week, which tackles the challenges of adolescence for marginalised characters; Up the River with Acid, by Harald Hutter, a portrait of dementia, winner of the Cinema du Réel award; Death of a City, by João Rosas, which films the last days of a Lisbon devoured by neoliberal urbanism; The Mountains [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], an autobiographical family portrait directed by Christian Einshøj; The Intrusion [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], by Flora Dias and Juruna Mallon, about the workers at Guarulhos International Airport and Brazilian memory; Melisa Liebenthal's The Face of the Jellyfish, a reflection on the meaning of the face, presented at the Berlinale Forum and winner of the Best Director Award at Mar del Plata; and Tótem, by the Mexican art collective Unidad de Montaje Dialéctico, an exploration of violence and forms of resistance and community in their country.

In the National Official Selection, seven feature films will compete: Samsara [+lire aussi :
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interview : Lois Patiño
fiche film], by Lois Patiño, Jury Prize in the Encounters section at the Berlinale; Negu Hurbilak [+lire aussi :
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interview : Colectivo Negu
fiche film], by Colectivo Negu, Special Jury Mention in the Cineasti del presente section at Locarno; An Inhabited Volcano [+lire aussi :
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interview : Alberto Martín Menacho
fiche film], by Alberto Martín Menacho, presented at Visions du Réel and San Sebastian; Sultana's Dream [+lire aussi :
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interview : Isabel Herguera
interview : Isabel Herguera
fiche film], the animated film by Isabel Herguera, also presented at the San Sebastian festival; Soc filla de ma mare [+lire aussi :
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interview : Oskar Alegría
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Among the titles in the Special Sessions are La chimera [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], by Alice Rohrwacher; the latest documentary by Nicolas Philibert, On the Adamant [+lire aussi :
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interview : Nicolas Philibert
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interview : Laura Ferrés
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