One of the most anticipated moments of ALCINE53 has arrived: sharing with the ALCINÉFILA community the poster for this edition, which will sharpen the ordinary and the existential and will encourage you to sharpen your gaze and discover beautiful pieces.
It is the work, like those of the two previous editions, of SOPA Team, responsible among others for the image of series such as La mesías; Cristobal Balenciaga; Querer, by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, a director who has been to ALCINE several times, the last with Cinco Lobitos, or Celeste, the long-awaited series by Carmen Machi and Diego San José.
The symbolic and visual leitmotiv of the 51st edition of ALCINE was the mineral universe. In that image converged, as the artistic director of the festival, Pedro Toro, explains, “the heritage singularity of a city like Alcalá de Henares (built on the stones of the Roman Complvtvm, at the foot of the Arab fortress of Alkal'a Nahar and with the brilliance of the Cisnerian university city that hosted the Golden Age of our letters) with its vocation as a quarry festival for new audiovisual talents."
The 52nd edition delved, explains Toro, “into that literary part that also unites our city with the seventh art, the papers that hide precious pieces, but also the seed paper where the voices of the cinema of the present and the surprise of the future germinate” .
The trilogy with which this new stage of ALCINE begins is completed in the 53rd edition with the symbolic element of the scissors, which defeats the paper that defeats the stone. The blade, the edge, the cut that formally makes cinema possible through the art of editing.
“A risky film festival, of cutting-edge short films that stand out both in their form and in their substance, which points to the future knowing where it comes from. A festival that invites the viewer to challenge themselves. To choose from the vast and diverse programming your own precious pieces, carve them, polish them and bring out the shine they hide,” says Toro.
To sharpen, in short, your gaze.
