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4.- PARALLEL SECTIONS

MUSEO BELLAS ARTES
4. 1 THE UNCERTAINTIES OF REALISM (1956-1967)

Carlos Saura, Francisco Regueiro, Basilio Martín Patino, Manuel Summers, Pere Portabella, Antxon Eceiza, Pío Caro Baroja, Jaime Camino, Jesús Fernández Santos, Jordi Grau, and Joaquín Jordá, among others, make up this cycle about the engagé cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. This extensive programme will include the main figures in the debate of the time about the most adequate model for the development of a Spanish popular cinema.

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
4.2 TONINO GUERRA
Guerra is the most prolific living scriptwriter in film history. He collaborated in Antonioni’s complete filmography from “L’avventura”, in 1960, with the exception of “Profession: Reporter”. He has also worked as a scriptwriter for some of the greatest contemporary film directors: De Sica, Monicelli, the Taviani brothers, Rosi, Tarkovski, Fellini (in whose “Amarcord” he had a decisive poetic participation) , Wenders, Angelopoulos (with whom he obtained the 1988 “Palme d’Or” prize in Cannes for the film “Eternity and a Day”) . Guerra was nominated for an Oscar on three occasions – “Casanova ’70” (1965), “Blow up” (1966) and “Amarcord” (1973). This cycle will feature his seminal work, Michelangelo Antonioni’s “L’avventura”, as well as several documentaries about his work, among which stands out “Tempo di viaggio”, co-directed with Andrei Tarkovski.

4.3 ANDREY KHRZHANOVSKI
Khrzhanovski is one of the most brilliant exponents of Russian animation, and also a member of this year’s Jury. “Il lungo viaggio” is a journey through Federico Fellini’s oneiric world. A superb work in which the Italian genius is surrounded by the myths which characterised his film career. “Il leone della barba bianca” and “A cat and a half” will complete the programme devoted to Khrzhanovski in collaboration with Tonino Guerra.

SALA BILBOROCK
4.4. C.K. (CLIP KLUB)
This cycle tells the story of Basque video clip making in the last 20 years. The pioneers, the accursed, the emblematic tandem made up by Manolo Gil and Enrique Urdanoz, today’s visual music... From Itoiz to La oreja de Van Gogh, including Barricada, Fermín Muguruza, Las Vulpes, Rufus, Tahures Zurdos, Fito, Hertzainak and a long tour of Basque rock, folk and pop through its clips. This programme has been prepared in collaboration with EITB and TVE and will be followed by a television series to be broadcast by ETB (the local Basque TV).

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
4. 5 MEGACITIES
In collaboration with the Graz Biennal on Media and Architecture, “Megacities” reflects the social and urban changes experienced by cities like Caracas, Lagos, Taipei, Bombay, New York, México City, Moscow, Tehran etc., featuring works by Austrian architects, audio-visual artists and film directors.

MULTICINES (MULTIPLEX CINEMAS)
4. 6 WALTER SALLES
He is one of the most representative directors of today’s Brazilian film scene. Together with Glauber Rocha, he represents the past and present of a deeply unconventional cinema. Walter Salles was nominated for two different sections Oscar for his film “Estaçao Central do Brasil”, and this year he has reaped no less success with his film “Diarios de motocicleta”, where he deals with the figure of Ernesto Guevara before he became the renowned South American revolutionary. “Kracjberg, o poeta dos vestigios”, “Socorro nobre”, “Emboladores” and “Todos somos filhos da terra” are the short films included in this cycle.

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
4. 7 APITCHAPONG WEERASETHAKUL
He received the Jury’s Prize in the last edition of the Cannes Festival (2004). Apitchapong Weerasethakul was born in Bangkok en 1970 and is currently one of the most important directors in experimental film-making in Thailand. The retrospective of his work includes all his short films and some acknowledged feature films such as “Blissfully yours” and “Mysterious object at noon”.

MULTICINES (MULTIPLEX CINEMAS)
4. 8 PEOPLE FROM BRAZIL
This cycle takes place in partnership with the São Paulo Film Festival, and it is made up of 4 programmes with the fiction and documentary short films which Brazil has produced in recent years, involving a complex-free look on that country through its cinema: football, music, Copacabana, the favelas, the climate, the scenery -all of this will be condensed into four intense days of cinema with the rhythm of samba. This array of tropical sensations will leave in our memory (and in our retinas) a cinematographically closer, more social and more artistic idea of that country.

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
4. 9 FEATURE DOCUMENTARIES
Masterpieces from Armenia, Japan, Korea, the United States, France, Spain, Argentina etc. Disturbing reflections on sex, life, justice, war, insanity, etc. Films will include: “Visions of Europe”, by 25 directors from 25 European countries, such as Peter Greenaway, Aki Kaurismäki, Miguel Hermoso and Tony Gatlif; “Documentarist”, an Armenian look on the issue of loneliness; “Peep TV show” which deals with isolation in a megacity like Tokyo; “Certain Women” (USA), a film about liberating fantasies; “10ème, instants d'audience”, by Raymond Depardon; “Une visite a Louvre” by Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub –all of which cannot be easily forgotten. This group of documentaries includes the premiere of “Memoria del saqueo”, a film by Fernando Solanas which recalls the plundering of Argentina during the decadence of Fernando De la Rúa’s government.

MUSEO BELLAS ARTES
4. 10 UNDER HOLLYWOOD
The history of film in an unprecedented journey through the classics. Films by Hitchcock –who inspired the cycle- such as “The Birds”, “Psicho” or “Torn Curtain” and some of the teacher’s disciples, such as Brian de Palma; Andy Warhol; masters of Western, etc., deconstructed and presented in experimental formats. By means of critical approaches and fetishistic parodies, these remakes simply and only aim at deconstructing “film art”. Discontinuous and subjective, the story told here is a revision of the cinematographic language as shown in its time by the Pompidou Centre.

GUGGENHEIM AND BELLAS ARTES MUSEUMS
4. 11 SPECIAL SESSIONS
The special sessions do not constitute a specific cycle within our Festival. Many productions are included in this special section according to the productions’ format, as well as their topicality and context. This year we have two films in this part of the programme: “Sabino Arana”, by Javier Santamaría, and “José Antonio Aguirre”, by José Julián Bakedano.

MUSEO BELLAS ARTES
4.12. D.A.C. (Contemporary Artistic Discourses)
The latest creations in the Basque video art scene will be shown here–a significant sample of the most avant-garde works in this field. Formats of the latest generation in the world of video will be present here.

MULTICINES (MULTIPLEX CINEMAS)
4.13. THE FILM’S STARTING (EMPIEZA LA PELÍCULA)
A cycle consisting of the film credits from the most emblematic films in history: “Carmen Jones”, by Otto Preminger, “Vertigo”, by Hitchcock, “West Side Story” by Robert Wise, “Dr. No (James Bond)”, “Psycho”, “Superman”, Scorsese’s “Casino”, “The Pink Panther”, “Charade”, “Barbarella”, “Golden Eye”, “Mars Attacks” and many others. For the first time, this hall of fame will include the credits of Pedro Almodóvar’s films.

4.14. RUSSIAN ANIMATION
The term “animation” comes from Latin “anima”, which means “soul”. So animation is the art of bringing a soul to inanimate images. The Saint Petersburg Film Festival gives us an opportunity to discover one of the most important and traditional animation film industries in the world, always prolific and creative.

4. 15 ALWAYS ‘CHE’ (CHE SIEMPRE)
“Fidel cuenta el ‘Che’”, “El día que me quieras”, “Una foto recorre el mundo”, "Viaje con el Che”. Once again, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara is topical… a myth from the 20th century which lives on into the 21st. This programme will bring back the figure of Guevara from a more human point of view –a figure which, far from growing old, is revised year after year by filmmakers, writers and passionate admirers who, as in the case of Walter Salles, reap awards in their remembrance of the mythic revolutionary.

MUSEO BELLAS ARTES
4. 16 OSCAR MARINÉ
Once more, the ZINEBI poster has been assigned to Oscar Mariné, author of the Festival’s corporate image -a prolific illustrator whose best-known works have taken place in the field of graphic design.

Within the framework of the Festival, two creations by this artist will be shown with the subject matter of the city of Buenos Aires: a photographic exhibition and a video installation.

TEATRO ARRIAGA
4. 17 ZINESKOLA
Under the section “Zineskola”, a classic in the Bilbao Film Festival, there is an attempt to take film to schools by means of a collaboration with the group Irudi Biziak. A full cycle of films –short films and feature films- which are both outstanding and representative of today’s film, will be devoted to the children, due to its interest from the point of view of educational values for the city’s schoolchildren.

PLAZA DE ARRIAGA
4. 18 MIKROZINEBI
The aim of Mikrozinebi is to make the Festival available to the public on the street. It involves the use of a container, transformed into a mini-cinema, which will be strategically placed at the Plaza de Arriaga. It will serve as an advertising vehicle for ZINEBI, while at the same time it will be able to hold 30 spectators in its improvised cinema.

MUSEO DE BELLAS ARTES
4. 19 BASQUE FILM ARCHIVE
As in previous editions, ZINEBI and the Basque Film Archive have a partnership in programming films which were recovered by the latter. These materials, rescued from historical archives, are unique pieces from the Basque film archaeology.

TEATRO ARRIAGA
4. 20 JANE BIRKIN
Together with the Foundation “Bilbao 700”, the Festival takes pleasure in including in its programme a concert by the Anglo-French singer and actress Jane Birkin on December 4.
Jane Birkin (London, 1946), who has one of Britain’s most extensive film careers, made her début at the age of 17 at the Haymarket Theatre in the role of a deaf-mute in Graham Greene’s “Carving a Statue”.

Ironically, her most singular voice would became a world success in with 1969 the greatly acknowledged “Je t’aime moi non plus”. Together with Serge Gainsbourg she formed a duo which, in a fruitful artistic partnership, propelled “Je t’aime moi non plus” into being one of the most controversial songs of the 1960s.
In the concert that Jane Birkin will give within the framework of the Festival –at the Teatro Arriaga, on December 4– she will present her suggestive album: “Arabesque”.

CAFÉ ANTZOKIA
4.21 DAVID HOLMES
On December 3, at 22:00, in collaboration with the Antzokia Café, there will be a party with the Irish disc-jockey David Holmes, author of music soundtracks to films such as “Analyze This” (Robert de Niro and Billy Cristal), Steven Soderbergh’s “Out of sight” (with Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney), “Ocean’s Eleven” and “Ocean’s Twelve”, and “Resurrection man”, directed by Marc Evans. On this evening David Holmes will open his performance playing soundtracks from film history, to move on to his funky and soul repertoire -to which he will add multi-generation music for all kinds of audiences.

MUSEO BELLAS ARTES
4.22 ZINEBIDOK
The programme ZINEBIDOK has been carried out in the last years within Zinebi and in close partnership with the Audiovisuals Department of the University of the Basque Country and the programme Media Antena Euskal Herria. Year after year, this film symposium takes a look at the state of affairs in the world of documentary filmmaking by bringing together film professionals for debate –from producers and scriptwriters to university professors and established documentary directors of international renown. The master classes offered here speak up for the quality of film’s most classic genre.

The Festival wants to thank the help of: Fundación Bilbao 700, São Paulo Film Festival, Saint Petersburg Film Festival, Kolhn Film Festival (Germany), Graz Biennal on Media and Architecture (Austria), EITB, RTVE, Centre Pompidou, Cineteca Nazionale (Italy), Filmoteca Española, Filmoteca de Valencia, Filmoteca de Catalunya, Filmoteca Vasca, Alliance Française de Bangkok (Thailand) U.P.V-E.H.U., Institut Français Bilbao, Media Antena Euskal Herria, Irudi Biziak.