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 [+leggi anche:
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scheda 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 [+leggi anche:
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This year's L'Alternativa International Feature Films Official Selection includes ten feature films from a range of independent viewpoints. Our Body [+leggi anche:
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scheda 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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Vlad Petri
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intervista: Bas Devos
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intervista: Paloma Sermon-Daï
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scheda 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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lois Patiño
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intervista: Colectivo Negu
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intervista: Alberto Martín Menacho
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intervista: Isabel Herguera
intervista: Isabel Herguera
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intervista: Oskar Alegría
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Among the titles in the Special Sessions are La chimera [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Nicolas Philibert
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intervista: Laura Ferrés
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