Framing world premieres of “Maragall i la Lluna” and “Wishlist,” plus new movies from Justin Kurzel, Marjane Satrapi, Matteo Garrone and Caroline Link, Barcelona’saims to become one of the first festivals in Europe to stage a live on-site edition, running June 25 to July 2.
While pushing the pleasures of a live event, from the quality of projection and sound to cinema viewing as a social and cultural community event and driver of local economic economy, the BCN Film Fest also forms part of a New Normal for A Contracorriente Films. Barring a second spike of coronavirus, the question for the BCN Film Fest may be not so much whether the festival takes place but how large a public gathering and full-blown festival it becomes.
Maragall had the custom of lodging for a few days with Barcelona townsfolk to discover how they really lived. Lluna, the film’s narrator, remembers how he came to stay with her family when she was aged eight and, departing from these memories, paints a personal portrait of one of the most respected and charismatic of modern-day Spanish statesmen.
A Contracorriente Films, however, is also proving a champion and pioneer of complementary new distribution models in Spain. While revenues are marginal, “la Sala Virtual was first and foremost a way to help maintain a connection with moviegoers during all these weeks of lockdown,” said Eduardo Escudero, business manager at Spain’s A Contracorriente Films.
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