Ten projects (seven audiovisual and three criticism-based ones) will take part in the 11th edition of MÁRGENES/WORK, reflecting the vitality and creativity of Spanish and Ibero-American cinema. The lab will be held in La Casa Encendida at the Montemadrid Foundation from 21-25 November, as part of the 15th Márgenes Madrid International Film Festival, combining presentations, one-to-one meetings and workshops in order to foster the creative and strategic potential of the projects, guided by a prominent group of industry professionals.

A committee comprising producer Gemma Vidal, programmer Miguel Zozaya, Rocío Mateo-Sagasta (head of Music and Audiovisuals at La Casa Encendida), Mariana Barassi (MÁRGENES/WORK) and Annamaria Scaramella (Márgenes Festival) selected the projects from among the 250 submissions received. The film projects will vie for the La Casa Encendida Award for Audiovisual Creation, worth €4,000. The selection brings together auteurs presenting their debuts and filmmakers who already have features under their belts, with offerings that cross-pollinate documentary, fiction and experimentation.

The projects chosen for MÁRGENES/WORK are as follows: La olla sorda by Spain’s David Aguilar (a member of the Zazpi T'erdi collective and one of the writers of Replica, which picked up a Special Mention from the Irizar Basque Film Award jury at San Sebastián and had its international premiere at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival), teetering between ethnographic documentary, sound essay and the staging of a 1729 trial of two brothers for playing a forbidden instrument; El devenir de la carne, an exploration of the limits between the human and the inhuman by Ainhoa Bolaños (the series Sense filTRES [+leggi anche:
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In the Raw Creation strand, we find Azken Izpia by Juan Palacios (Inland [+leggi anche:
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Lastly, the Raw Criticism and Research section has selected three Latin American projects, detailed below.

Here is the full list of projects:

MÁRGENES/WORK

La olla sorda - David Aguilar Iñigo (Spain)
Production: Zazpi T'erdi

La luna de agosto - Carlota González Gómez, Paula Fuentes (Spain)

El devenir de la carne - Ainhoa Bolaños (Spain)

El profesor de música - Renzo Cozza (Argentina/Brazil)
Production: Laura Huberman, Julia Alves

Raw Creation

The End of the Future. The Mixtape - Lucia Selva (Spain)

Augurios, sueños y suelos - Luciana Decker (Bolivia)
Production: Omicine

Azken Izpia - Juan Palacios (Spain/Netherlands)
Production: 15L Films, Txintxua Films, Revolver Amsterdam

Raw Criticism and Research

Arqueología experimental del cine de invención brasileño: poéticas secretas en los archivos de Andrea Tonacci, Júlio Bressane y Jorge Bodanzky - Gabriel Linhares Falcão (Brazil)

Archivos Queer y Desobedientes: Disidencias Sexuales en los Lenguajes Estéticos Latinoamericanos - Agus Wetzel (Argentina)

Lo que resiste, lo que se resiste: Cine chamánico y acontecimiento en el cine de no ficción latinoamericano contemporáneo - Carolina Rivas Salgado (Chile)