GLORIA! BY MARGHERITA VICARIO WILL BE THE OPENING FILM OF THE 62 FICX

Monday 4 November, 2024

FICX joins the promotion of Spanish talent by including in its opening the short film La causa del accidente que provocó el incendio (Spain) directed by Lope Serrano for the production company CANADA. The Audiovisual from Spain (ICEX) campaign entitled ‘Spain, Where Talent Ignites’ is based around this work and aims to promote the visibility […]

TWELVE TITLES REFORMULATING CLASSIC GENRES LIGHT UP THE GENERACIÓN MUTANTE OF 62 FICX

Thursday 31 October, 2024

In this section, which in 2024 will have its own section outside of Esbilla, FICX offers a carefully chosen selection in which the classic genres are approached from unique and wildly heterodox artistic points of view. Four feature films will have their state premiere at Generación Mutante: Laguna Mental by Cristóbal Arteaga (international premiere), Real […]

THE FILM INDUSTRY LANDS IN GIJÓN

Tuesday 29 October, 2024

Gijón will host the FICXPro industry conference and the SEMILLERU Campus and SEMILLERU Lab film project training and nutrition laboratories from 28 October to 23 November. FICXPro, the conference aimed at film sector professionals For the eighth consecutive year, the Gijón/Xixón International Film Festival (FICX), in co-production with the Asturias Paraíso Natural Film Commission, is […]

FROM 15 TO 23 NOVEMBER, FACE TO FACE CINEMA

Thursday 17 October, 2024

‘Film face to face’. This is how the Gijón/Xixón International Film Festival will become, from 15 to 23 November, an ideal meeting place for audiences and filmmakers in which the city will also take on a leading role. In this 62nd edition, FICX will screen 75 Spanish (co-)productions, which reinforces its commitment to Spanish cinema. […]

PRESTIGIOUS FILMMAKERS RETURN TO FICX ALONGSIDE NEW VOICES IN INTERNATIONAL CINEMA

Wednesday 9 October, 2024

From 15 to 23 November, the Gijón/ Xixón International Film Festival will once again focus on quality, daring and innovative cinema. To this end, it will feature the work of renowned filmmakers such as Patricia Mazuy and Matías Piñeiro, as well as emerging directors such as Zsófia Szilágyi and Jaydon Martin, who are making and […]

ALBERT SERRA, RECENT WINNER OF THE CONCHA DE ORO IN SAN SEBASTIÁN, WILL PRESENT ‘TARDES DE SOLEDAD’ AS PART OF THE 62FICX SPECIAL SCREENINGS.

Friday 4 October, 2024

As every year, the 62nd Gijón/ Xixón International Film Festival will have its Special Screenings Section, which will bring some of the most eagerly awaited contemporary auteur films to the public. The prestigious filmmaker Albert Serra returns to FICX to present Tardes de soledad (Spain, France, Portugal), one of the most daring works of his […]

ENFANTS TERRIBLES, NEW LOOKS FOR CINEPHILES

Wednesday 2 October, 2024

The 62nd FICX will feature 16 exceptional titles in its Enfants Terribles section, especially dedicated to children and young people, including the world premiere of one of the most renowned sagas of contemporary animated cinema, Ernest & Célestine, Springtime Tales, by Aurélie Raphaël. Similarly, this section will host a total of 12 Spanish premieres, including […]

THE 62ND FICX WILL INCLUDE THE LATEST FILM BY THE ASTURIAN RAMÓN LLUÍS BANDE IN ITS OFFICIAL SECTION ALBAR

Monday 23 September, 2024

Retaguardia, the latest work by the renowned Asturian filmmaker Ramón Lluís Bande, will have its international premiere at FICMonterrey this Friday and will premiere in Spain in the Albar Official Section of FICX. After winning the Special Jury Prize in 2018 with Cantares de una revolución, Ramón Lluís Bande competes on this occasion alongside filmmakers […]

CROSSROADS CELEBRATES ITS FIRST SEVEN YEARS WITH SIX OUTSTANDING TITLES

Friday 20 September, 2024

Crossroads – SSIFF FICX, the section with which the Gijón/Xixón International Film Festival and the San Sebastian International Film Festival (SSIFF) collaborate with a joint programme, celebrates its seventh anniversary and celebrates it with the enthusiasm of having become one of the most successful sections of FICX. Filmmakers such as Maider Fernández Iriarte with Las […]

62 FICX: FIRST NAMES OF A FESTIVAL ON A HUMAN SCALE

Thursday 19 September, 2024

The 62nd edition of the Gijón/Xixón International Film Festival, to be held from 15 to 23 November, is bringing forward nine of the titles that will have their world premiere in Spain as part of its programme. None of them have been assured commercial distribution in our country, which confirms the Festival’s commitment to favouring […]

THE FICX WILL PREMIERE IN SPAIN THE FINAL WORKS OF JEAN-LUC GODARD AND WILL DEDICATE A FOCUS TO FILMMAKER GALA HERNÁNDEZ LÓPEZ

Thursday 29 August, 2024

The Gijón/Xixón International Film Festival, which celebrates its 62nd edition from 15 to 23 November, will have an exclusive exhibition and will screen the last two films by the much-missed master Jean-Luc Godard, the short films Scénarios and Exposé du film annonce du film ‘Scénario’, the Spanish premiere of which will take place in Gijón. […]

OPEN CALL FOR SEMILLERU LAB MODALITY | (POST)PRODUCTION

Wednesday 14 August, 2024

Divertia Gijón S.A. opens the call for SEMILLERU Lab Modality | (Post)Production, the film laboratory programme that will take place in Xixón in an on-site format from the 18th to the 21st of November. SEMILLERU Lab Modality | (Post)Production is part of SEMILLERU, a space for the nurturing and care of film projects with the […]

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THE SEMILLERU CAMPUS CINEMATOGRÁFICO (FILM CAMPUS) IS OPEN

Thursday 1 August, 2024

Divertia Gijón S.A. opens the call for SEMILLERU Film Campus, whose third edition will be held from 28 October to 23 November, coinciding its second phase with the 62nd edition of the FICX. SCampus is part of SEMILLERU, a sowing space, a training project and a laboratory for emerging filmmakers, where to sow talent and […]

OPEN CALL FOR SEMILLERU LAB MODALITY : DEVELOPMENT OF PROJECTS LABORATORY

Thursday 1 August, 2024

Divertia Gijón S.A. opens the call for SEMILLERU Lab Modality | Development, the film laboratory programme that will take place in Xixón on 18, 19, 20 and 21 November. SEMILLERU Lab Modality | Development is part of SEMILLERU, a space for the nurturing and care of film projects with the aim of generating a rich […]

THE 62ND EDITION OF THE GIJON/XIXÓN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF OPENS THE CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 

Thursday 16 May, 2024

Gijón/Xixón International Film Festival (FICX) opens the call to present feature films and short films in the 62nd edition, which will be celebrated between the 15th and 23rd of November, 2024. This prestigious event is dedicated to bringing together a wide selection of quality auteur cinema from around the world, highlighting innovative proposals and emerging […]

‘WOMAN BITES DOG’ WINS PARTICIPATION IN SEMILLERU LAB 2024

Monday 29 April, 2024

The project Woman Bites Dog, which participated in the seventh edition of MECAS last weekend in Las Palmas, in the Almost Made Cinema modality, won the SEMILLERU Lab Award for the diffusio of the project. The award consists of the participation of the project in SEMILLERU Lab 2024, which will take place from 18 to […]

THE 61ST FICX TAKES STOCK OF ONE OF ITS BEST EDITIONS EVEREL 61 FICX HACE BALANCE DE UNA DE SUS MEJORES EDICIONES

Thursday 21 December, 2023

The 61st edition of the Gijon International Film Festival, celebrated between the 17th and 25th of November in 2023, screened 191 title exhibitions in 204 different sessions throughout Gijon through the exclusively offered cycles within the FILMIN portal. The combined number (both in person and online) of viewers and viewings of FICX in 2023 reached […]

ALICIA LUNA, COMADRE OF CINEMA 2023: «I’M ALWAYS FIGHTING»

Saturday 25 November, 2023

The screenwriter Alicia Luna will receive the Comadre de Cine Award at the closing ceremony of the 61st FICX. The Festival is giving her this award in collaboration with La Tertulia Feminista Les Comadres to celebrate not only her achievements in her career, but also her firm commitment to the advancement of women in film […]

AUGUSTO M. TORRES: «I HADN’T SEEN THE WOODEN HAND SINCE IT WAS PROJECTED IN PESARO, IN 1968, AND I WAS COMPLETELY AMAZED»

Saturday 25 November, 2023

If we had to write a short biography, we could classify Augusto M. Torres as a writer and filmmaker, but that would be an understatement. At 81 years of age, the Madrid-born writer has had so many facets to his life that to pigeonhole him in any one of them would not do him justice. […]

A COKE AWAY WITH… THE DIRECTORS OF ‘DISCO BOY’ AND ‘AFTER’, TWO OUTSTANDING DEBUT FILMS IN DIALOGUE WITH EACH OTHER

Saturday 25 November, 2023

Ricardo Apilánez, a member of the FICX selection committee, talks to Giacomo Abbruzzese, the director of Disco Boy; and Anthony Lapia and Natalia Wiszniewska, the director and actress, artistic designer and creative producer of After. Both films have in common, in addition to being debut films, having premiered at the Berlin Film Festival; having French […]

CARLOS MARTÍNEZ-PEÑALVER MAS: «WE WANTED TO DEAL WITH THE ISSUE OF RURAL AREAS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF CREATIVITY AND THE IRONY OF POLITICAL DISCOURSE»

Friday 24 November, 2023

Carlos Martínez-Peñalver Mas presents his first feature film, À procura da estrela, in the Tierres en trance Official Selection. He does so accompanied by the leading actor Joel Fontan Martínez and the producers Nico Martínez Millán and Arnau Abella Travesset. The film «arises from an encounter with a fable of the place that gives its […]

AGNÈS GODARD “I AM VERY SURPRISED TO RECEIVE AN AWARD LIKE THIS. SOMETIMES, WHEN SOMEONE TELLS ME THAT MY FILM HAS PROVOKED CERTAIN FEELINGS IN THEM, I AM NOT AWARE OF IT”.

Friday 24 November, 2023

Before taking up filmmaking, Agnès Godard spent a long time going through each of the photographs that her recently deceased father had left scattered around. With them, Agnès inherited, in addition to memories, a way of looking at the world and, after abandoning journalism for film school, she began her career by working alongside a […]