ESCENA23 - Oslo Ibero-amerikanske filmdager

About the festival:

ESCENA. Oslo Ibero-amerikanske filmdager is a platform for cultural exchange between Norway and the Ibero-American region.

The aim of the festival is to promote the interest in film from the Spanish and Portuguese speaking nations of Europe and the Americas and showcase the vibrant film expressions of these nations.

The films convey social, political, and historical aspects of this cultural context as well as the challenges currently facing the societies of the region. Even though these nations share a common cultural mainstream; they form a rich tapestry of diverse backgrounds that translate into their cinematic expression.

ESCENA also provides a gathering place and discussion forum for film enthusiasts, for those with roots in the region and others who have an interest in Ibero-America.

About ESCENA 23:

ESCENA23 will present 7 films with wide international recognition of great directors and filmmakers from 6 different countries.

This year’s edition brings forward the most recent award-winning films from Ibero-america: Salvadoran Mexican director Tatiana Huezo returns to her documentary roots with her new film “The Echo”. We will also premiere award-winning rural thrillers “The Beasts” and Fogaréu” and the family film “Anina”, a wonderful film full of heartwarming moments.

Also, we are happy to present the Oslo premiere of Pedro Almodovar´s latest film “Strange Way of Life”, the filmmaker’s take on the Western genre starring Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke.

We are also celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Almodovar´s classic “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” in which the western genre also plays a prominent role.

Finally, we are marking the 50th anniversary of Chile’s 1973 Coup with the screening of Pablo Larrain´s classic “Tony Manero” set in the early Pinochet years. A scathing satire providing a metaphor on what was happening in Chile at that time, about the aggressive influence of US culture in Chile´s society.

The Echo

A moving documentary about children and teenagers in a remote village in Mexico. The film shows them dealing with frost and drought, and encountering death, disease and love for the first time.

After the film, we will have a conversation with Oslo-based Argentinian director Mirko Støpar on hybrid films and reality in documentary films.

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The Beasts

An international award-winning film (in world-renowned film festivals in San Sebastian, Tokyo, Chicago, Miami, among others) about a disturbing conflict in a rural area in Spain between the locals and newcomers regarding a new wind power plant.

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Fogaréu

On the border between the real and the fantastic, between the colonial past and the overwhelming modernity of agribusiness, the city of Goiás, in central Brazil, is the stage of a dark and disturbing journey.

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Anina

An award-winning animated film that tells, through a simple hand-made animation, the adventures of a girl who must endure the ridicule of her schoolmates because of her palindrome name: Anina Yatay Salas. The film was presented in the Generation Section at the Berlinale.

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Strange Way of Life

The newest production of the renowned director Pedro Almodovar. A western that challenges the conventions of the genre with issues of queerness and love.

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Women on the verge of a Nervous Breakdown

A film classic from Pedro Almodovar and his most iconic film turns 35 this year and we want to celebrate the anniversary with a special screening. After the film, PhD candidate Daniel Ovalle Costal will give a presentation analyzing Almodovar's artistic choices in the film's residential scenography, and the capacity of queer design language to challenge mainstream residential solutions and validate dissident lifestyles.

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Tony Manero

A powerful satire, set in Chile during Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship. Filmmaker Pablo Larraín makes a conscious effort to depict the decay, violence and darkness of the time.

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