A new edition of the José Ignacio International Film Festival has just ended. Sponsored by Clarionfeature films were seen in preview for Latin America, many of them now with Oscar nominationsafter passing through the Cannes Festival.
JIIFF viewers had the opportunity to decide, day by day and with their vote, which was the best film of this 14th edition. And the winner turned out to be The Taste of Things. The feature film, directed by Trán Anh Húng, was screened on Tuesday, January 16, in the first screening that was scheduled at an unusual time for the Festival, in the morning. It was screened at one of the festival venues, at Pavilion VIK, and was followed by a debate that lasted almost 4 hours at Parador La Huella.
Regarding the film with Juliette Binochewhich was the one that France sent to compete for the Oscar for best international film, said Pablo Mazzola, JIIFF programmer: “The film talks about the possibility of loving through cooking as an art. It gives us a moment of poetry that It comforts us in moments when, sometimes, reality hits us harder. And resting in love is very important.”
The prize itself consists of a work by the Uruguayan plastic artist, Federico Benites, who worked through the recycling of wood that is more than 100 years old, works of great visual impact. The work crosses between artisanal and pictorial, classical European and Uruguayan constructivist, playful, reusing elements and discards.
The other films that were shown were Anatomy of a fallde Justine Triet; poor creaturesde Yorgos Lanthimos; The area of interestthe Jonathan Glazer; Perfect daysthe Wim Wenders; The wind that sweeps away, by Paula Hernández; and May Decemberby Todd Haynes.
There was also a winning short film
Viewers were also able to choose the Audience Award Winning Short Film. And it was for Fortressdirected and produced by Mica Tyler and Daniiel Bielosheikin.
The Jury of the Short Film Competition of the 2024 edition was made up of the Argentine filmmaker, Paula Hernández, the Chilean director Dominga Sotomayor and the Uruguayan screenwriter, director and producer, Rodo Sayagués. The three decided that the December Prize would be awarded to Fortressby Mica Tyler and Daniil Bielosheikin, “for the austerity and honesty with which it portrays a deep bond through the observation of the space and time they inhabit.”
An image of “The Zone of Interest”, probable winner of the Oscar for best international film.The December Prize consists of a trip to the 2024 Cannes Festival and a work by the Uruguayan artist, Carlos Vignolo.
The short film Black Cubeby Gabriel Pagola, obtained a Special Mention “for the original use of sound and visual archives to rescue a fragment of a man’s real journey into space.”