The organisers of the Lanzarote Muestra de Cine (a film festival held on the beautiful Canary island of Lanzarote between 22 November and 1 December 2018) want the seventh art to become a collective and thought-provoking experience. For that reason, last Saturday, its jury – made up of Vanesa Fernández Guerra (the director of ZINEBI, the Bilbao International Documentary and Short Film Festival), Italian filmmaker Francesco Clerici (Hand Gestures [+leggi anche:
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According to the festival, which kicked off with a screening of the Werner Herzog documentary Into the Inferno [+leggi anche:
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The jury also handed a Special Mention to The Wolf House, a Chilean stop-motion animation film helmed by Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León, while the Numax Award was bestowed upon Still Recording [+leggi anche:
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The competitive Official Section of the festival, which this year was dedicated to the theme of volcanoes, was rounded off by Austria’s ★ by Johann Lurf, Trot [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Xacio Baño
scheda film] (Spain/Lithuania) by Galicia’s Xacio Baño and the French title M [+leggi anche:
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