Festival Al Este will be held in face

The XIII Festival Al Este, in this new edition, returns to face-to-face and offers a large program of online films that will take place from June 1 to 11 in a double format: face-to-face, in various theaters in Lima; and virtual, reaching all of Peru, through the elekran.com platform.

The 13th edition will feature 63 representative films from the latest in independent cinema. Among them, the award-winning drive my car (Japan, 2021), winner of the Oscar for best foreign film; Mutzenbacher (Austria, 2022), winner of a Golden Bear in Berlin; magnetic beats (France, 2021), winner at Cannes; the buco (Italy, 2021), winner of the Venice Film Festival; The Island (Romania, Belgium, France, 2021), by renowned director Anca Damian; The worst person in the world (Norway, France, Sweden, Denmark, 2021), considered one of the best films of the past year and Bergman Island (France, Belgium, Sweden, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, 2021), critically acclaimed film. The Peruvian film will also be screened Of all the things to be known (Peru, 2021); and the acclaimed Titan (France, Belgium, 2021).

To access these and other films virtually, tickets can be purchased on the elekran.com platform. The early presale of tickets, which runs until May 26, ensures access to this platform and more than 50 films for only 39 soles, but tickets will continue at a cost of 49 soles until the end of the festival. With this access, the Peruvian public from all regions will be able to access more than 50 films participating in the Official Al Este Competition, Itinerant Competition, Emerging Peru Short Film Competition and Experimental East Short Film Competition.

The face-to-face functions will be in the rooms of Cineplanet, the French Alliance of Miraflores, the Robles Godoy room of the Ministry of Culture, the Julieta Theater, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the CCPUCP. Tickets can be purchased at the aforementioned venues and through joinnus.com. The complete program will be available through the following Web.

It should be noted that the festival has the cooperation of the Ministry of Culture (Peru), UPC Cultural, Normandie Region (France), the embassies of Austria, Canada, Slovenia, France, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, national film centers, companies private, voluntary and professionals from the film industry.

master classes

The Al Este Film Festival brings three Master Classes with three world-class film directors such as filmmakers Anca Damian (Romania), Michelangelo Frammartino (Italy) and Ruth Beckermann (Austria), who will offer three masterclasses via Zoom. Tickets are on sale at joinnus.com.

The classes will be given live through the platform and will have simultaneous translation. It can be accessed from anywhere in the world.

Class 1: Masterclass with Anca Damian (Crystal of Annecy).

Saturday June 4, 11:30 a.m.

Romanian filmmaker Anca Damian is a director, screenwriter and producer. Her second feature film, the animated documentary, Crulic: The Path to Beyond (2011, Cristal Award at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival (France)) was selected at more than 150 international festivals, such as Locarno IFF, Telluride, New Director New Films, and has received more than 35 international awards. His films were distributed all over the world and have been awarded numerous international awards, including the Best Director Award in Warsaw, the Mirada International Award in Madrid and the Eurimages Audentia Award. The Island It is his seventh and most recent feature film.

Class 2: Masterclass with Michelangelo Frammartino (Special Prize, Venice 2021).

Monday June 6, 10:00 a.m.

Michelangelo Frammartino made his first film, I donate (2003), without a budget, and premiered at the Locarno Film Festival. It won the Grand Prize at the Annecy Italian Film Festival (France) and the Jury Prize in both Thessaloniki and Warsaw. Frammartino’s third feature film, the buco (2021), was shot in the south of Italy, in the neighboring regions of Calabria and Basilicata, where all of his previous works were shot. With the approach of an anthropologist, Frammartino captures the traditional and the transcendent with a simplicity and spirituality typical of his filmography.

Class 3: Masterclass with Ruth Beckermann (Golden Bear, Berlin).

Saturday June 11, 9:00 a.m.

Ruth Beckermann is a filmmaker and author based in Vienna. Her movies include The Paper Bridge, East of War Y American Passages. In 2014, his film Those who leave, those who stay received the grand prize for cinema at the Diagonale in Graz. Two years later, The Dreamed Ones it was also awarded there as Best Feature Film. Waldheim-Waltz it received several awards, including the Glashütte Original-Documentary Award for Best Documentary Film at the Berlinale 2018, as well as an Oscar nomination. In 2022, he won the Golden Bear for Best Film in the Encounters section for his work Mutzenbacher.

More information at www.peru.alestfestival.com. Inquiries to the email info@sf-peru.com or on the festival’s social networks.

Festival Al Este will be held in face-to-face and virtual format from June 1 to 11