In collaboration with the Aragon Institute of Women (IAM), the festival presents this Thursday 11 June the “Veladas Violetas”, an initiative that aims to approach the work of artists and creators to a cultured public. This time, the protagonist of the evening is the actress Rosa Vivas, who will present, combining both audiovisual and graphic…
Two Euros Eighty is the awarded work by the XII Cinema Short Story Contest called by Huesca International Film Festival, thanks to the sponsorship of Anselmo Pié Sopena Foundation and the cooperation of Aveletra Writers Association and Huesca Bookstore Province Association. Its author, the High Aragonese María Elisa Becana, attended the ceremony to receive the…
This Sunday 14 June and for a limited number of people with previous reservation, the festival offers a unique experience that will please the most sybarite cinephiles. A combination of cinema and food, in which the spectator while enjoying the movie “Menú Degustació” may be tasting different tapas and drinks inspired in the film. In…
This Wednesday 10th June the festival offers a different plan for movie and nature lovers. From 22:00 until 00:30 it will be projected on the facade of the Loreto Chapel the film Julie& Julia, the last work of the director Nora Ephron. The film tells the story of Julie Powell (Amy Adams), who sees how…
On June 5, this Friday, it starts the second Cocktail Route ‘Huesca. The Magic of Cinema’ in parallel with the Pre-Festival beginning. A total of X cocktails inspired on X films will be available for tasting at different venues of the city of Huesca. Cinema is a powerful advertising vehicle, something that does not go…
The 43rd edition of Huesca International Film Festival invites spectators younger than 25 to enjoy the festival for free through the corporate wristbands equivalent to a festival pass, which grant access to all the showings of New Ibero-American Filmmakers season, as well as the inauguration and closing gala ceremonies. Wristbands will be distributed to anybody…
The 43rd edition of Huesca International Film Festival is ready to become the ‘worldwide short film spotlight’ from 13th to 20th June. The complete program has been released by the organization of the Upper Aragonese festival last Wednesday; among its novelties in this edition it is to be noted ‘Huesca Festival at Home’, its online…
The 82 short films shortlisted for the present edition will be screened from Sunday 14 in two daily showings, at 17:00 and 19:30; except on Sunday, with showings at 12:00 and 17:00. ‘Our work is absolutely addressed to the public and that is why mixed showings will be maintained at appropriate timetables for the spectators’…
The 6th edition of Pepe Escriche Award will go to ‘Cine en construcción’, a joint initiative by San Sebastián Festival and Rencontres Cinémas d’Amérique Latine of Toulouse, that emerged in 2002 to support Latin American Cinema and to support the accomplishment and distribution of a series of titles selected by a group of professionals. This…
THE FESTIVAL STRENGTHENS ITS COMMITMENT TO BE LAUNCHING PAD FOR NEW TALENTS WITH 32 DEBUT WORKS INTERNATIONAL CONTEST IS CONFORMED BY 32 SHORT FILMS, LATIN AMERICAN BY 31 AND DOCUMENTARY BY 19 A total of 82 short films have been shortlisted to participate in 43rd Huesca International Film Festival consisting, once again, of three contests:…
The French director and screenwriter Laurent Cantet will receive the “Luis Buñuel” Award of the 43rd Huesca International Film Festival. The organisation wants to recognize his great international career beginning as a short filmmaker. The short films are the essence of the festival. Cantet has become one of the stars of the New Independent French…
THE FAMOUS DUTCH ILLUSTRATOR, ZELOOT, IS THE POSTER’S AUTHOR The Dutch illustrator Zeloot is the author of the 43 Huesca International Film Festival poster where “I’ve personified moving image /film, by making a character that suggest movement by its posture and the pattern of the frames that follow each other up”, declares Eline. The Festival…