CATHERINE BREILLAT: «I MAKE INTIMATE FILMS, AND IN THAT COMMON PLACE THAT IS INTIMACY, WE RECOGNIZE OURSELVES».

Sunday 19 November, 2023

French director Catherine Breillat, who competes in FICX’s Albar Official Selection with El último verano, presented her most recent work accompanied by the leading actress, Léa Drucker, who plays the role of a lawyer who has a secret intimate relationship with her seventeen-year-old stepson. Catherine Breillat and Léa Drucker The French filmmaker, known for her controversial view […]

LUIS ALEJANDRO YERO: «I WANTED TO MAKE A FILM TO REFLECT THE LONELINESS OF THE EMIGRANT; AS IF THEY WERE GHOSTS COHABITING THE SAME SPACE».

Sunday 19 November, 2023

After several award-winning short films at festivals such as Mar del Plata, FICUNAM and Havana, and after its world premiere in the Forum section of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, Cuban filmmaker Luis Alejandro Yero has presented in Gijón Llamadas desde Moscú, his first feature-length documentary in the Tierres en Trance Official Selection. Llamadas […]

PODCAST ‘LA IMPORTANCIA DE LLAMARSE ERNESTO Y LA GILIPOLLEZ DE LLAMARSE ERIC’

Sunday 19 November, 2023

«In the film, Eric speaks and sometimes Ernesto speaks, and in all of this there are many lies and some truths», says César Martínez Herrada, director of La importancia de llamarse Ernesto y la gilipollez de llamarse Eric. La importancia de llamarse Ernesto y la gilipollez de llamarse Eric by César Martínez Herrada The most […]

SAMU FUENTES ON ‘THE LAST SHEPHERDS’: «THE IDEA WAS THAT THE CAMERA SHOULD GO UNNOTICED BUT AT THE SAME TIME BE VERY CLOSE TO THEM».

Sunday 19 November, 2023

Los últimos pastores, with which the Asturian director Samu Fuentes competes in the Retueyos Official Selection, approaches a universe similar to that of his previous work, Bajo la piel de lobo; but in this case, it does so in a non-fiction key. The director had lived with Fernando and Manolo Mier, two shepherd brothers from […]

MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM: «THE COLONIALIST MISTAKE MADE A HUNDRED YEARS AGO BY GREAT BRITAIN IS NOW BEING REPLACED BY THE U.S.A.»

Sunday 19 November, 2023

The prestigious filmmaker Michael Winterbottom presents at FICX the Spanish premiere of Shoshana, a film with which the director connects the past and present of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict from the time of the British Mandate of Palestine: «a part of history that is little talked about when it comes to British colonialism». Shoshana by Michael Winterbottom The […]

FIEN TROCH: “WITH HOLLY I WANTED TO ADDRESS HOW A COMMUNITY COPES WITH A TRAUMATIC EVENT”.

Saturday 18 November, 2023

In all of her work, Fien Troch focuses on reflecting human complexity and gives children and teenagers the leading role, who are shown as a mirror for the adult world. In Holly, her fourth feature film, with which she competes in the Albar Official Selection at FICX after its screening at the Venice Festival, the […]

‘LOBO’, DIRECTED BY ALFONSO CORTÉS-CAVANILLAS AND WRITTEN BY AND STARRING MARIAN ÁLVAREZ, OPENS 61 FICX

Saturday 18 November, 2023

With careful documentation, Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas tells in Lobo “the journey of reconstruction of a person who has suffered mistreatment”. The idea stems from a true story that caught the attention of Goya-winning actress Marian Álvarez, about a woman who, while fleeing from her abuser with her dog, is forced to live in a tent. The […]

LILIÁN DE CELIS, WINNER OF THE IV ISAAC DEL RIVERO AWARD: “I FEEL VERY HAPPY, VERY POSITIVE, VERY SATISFIED WITH MY CAREER AND IN THE SPIRIT OF CONTINUING”.

Saturday 18 November, 2023

The actress and great cuplé diva, Lilián de Celis, will receive this afternoon at the opening gala the IV Isaac del Rivero Award in honour of her brilliant professional career; a career that for the artist reaches a new impulse with this recognition that she considers “a second chance that life has allowed her”. When […]

THE FICX AND FILMIN OFFER FIVE EXCLUSIVE CYCLES OF THE BEST AUTEUR FILMS

Wednesday 15 November, 2023

The Gijón/ Xixón International Film Festival has worked with Filmin, with whom it is collaborating for the seventh consecutive year, to create five exclusive cycles by thematic blocks, which can be seen until 10 December on the platform’s channel dedicated to the event. They are an inspired selection of films made by the FICX programming […]

ASTURIAN CINEMA GOES THROUGH THE 61ST FICX

Monday 13 November, 2023

30 Asturian films, including short and feature films, will be screened at the 61st edition of the Gijón International Film Festival. The event thus consolidates its commitment to making the region’s cinema more visible and demonstrates that Asturias has an audiovisual sector with a greater representation every year. Three Asturian titles will have their world […]

ASTURIAN CINEMA GOES THROUGH THE 61ST FICX

Monday 13 November, 2023

30 Asturian films, including short and feature films, will be screened at the 61st edition of the Gijón International Film Festival. The event thus consolidates its commitment to making the region’s cinema more visible and demonstrates that there is an audiovisual sector in Asturias that is more and more represented every year. Three Asturian titles […]

61 FICX: CINEMA IN AND OUT OF CINEMAS

Friday 10 November, 2023

As every year, the Gijón International Film Festival includes a wide range of complementary activities, including exhibitions, talks, book presentations and meetings with filmmakers and protagonists of the event, which will also be distributed throughout the different venues and collaborating spaces of the FICX: Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto, Antigua Escuela de Comercio, Teatro Jovellanos, […]

BE DAZZLED BY THE BEST AUTEUR CINEMA AT THE 61ST FICX

Tuesday 7 November, 2023

From 17 to 25 November, under the slogan “Let yourself be dazzled by the best auteur cinema”, Gijón/Xixón will become an enclave to celebrate cinephilia with the programming of nearly two hundred films that will be complemented, among multiple activities, with meetings between spectators and filmmakers. An invitation to the public to enjoy cinema in […]

SPANISH CINEMA TAKES CENTRE STAGE AT THE 61ST FICX

Thursday 26 October, 2023

From 17 to 25 November, a total of 76 Spanish films will be screened at the Gijón International Film Festival, 25 more than last year. The 61st FICX thus increases the national representation in most of its sections and offers support to works which, for the most part, do not have guaranteed commercial distribution in […]

THE 61ST FICX REVEALS THE COMPLETE PROGRAM OF ITS OFFICIAL SECTIONS

Tuesday 17 October, 2023

From November 17th to 25th, the 61st edition of the Gijón International Film Festival is consolidating its position as an unmissable cultural event. In its eagerness to broaden our vision of the world and bring us closer to other realities, the FICX bets, with an unwavering personality, for the best independent cinema. In its 61st […]

ENFANTS TERRIBLES: AN APPRENTICESHIP IN CINEMA

Wednesday 11 October, 2023

In its commitment to foster artistic sensitivity and transmit love for cinema, the Gijón International Film Festival is especially dedicated to young audiences and remains faithful to its beginnings as an event aimed at children and youth. The Enfants Terribles section, in which the students themselves award the Prize for Best Feature Film, will offer […]

THE FICX IS THE SPANISH FESTIVAL OF ITS CALL THAT WILL RECEIVE THE MOST FUNDING FROM THE ICAA – MINISTRY OF CULTURE IN 2023

Friday 6 October, 2023

The Spanish Ministry of Culture, through the Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA), has made public the provisional resolution for the support to the organization of film festivals and competitions in our country during the year 2023. It notifies that the evaluation committee has awarded the FICX the maximum economic allocation […]

CHRISTINE MOLLOY & JOE LAWLOR AND ELENA MARTÍN GIMENO, SPOTLIGHTS OF THE 61ST FICX

Monday 2 October, 2023

This year, the Gijón International Film Festival is devoting special attention to the Irish filmmaking couple Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor, in a just recognition of their extensive and highly personal career; and it is also focusing on the Spanish actress and director Elena Martín Gimeno, who has her first two feature films as the […]

PROGRAM PREVIEW: A CAREFUL SELECTION OF THE MOST DESIRABLE AUTEUR FILMS TO PREMIERE IN SPAIN AT THE 61ST FICX

Friday 15 September, 2023

The 61st edition of Gijón’s International Film Festival, which will take place from November 17th to 25th, reveals a strong personality in its choice of feature films and previews some of the titles that will be part of its Official Selection. The Albar Competition, where established filmmakers compete with some of the most eagerly awaited […]