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Dir: Joaquín Bravo
Bajada de los Pescadores
Dir: Pablo Schulkin
Pavilion VIK
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Dir: Celeste Lois & Marina Artigas
El visitante
Dir: Lucía Nieto Salazar
Chacra La Mallorquina
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Dir: Gonzalo Pintado
Exoesqueletos
Dir: Mariana Castiñeiras
Los nuevos románticos
Dir: Santiago Banchero
Saturday 21st january
Bajada de Pescadores
JIIFF's Short Film Competition is a great opportunity to meet the up and coming local filmmakers. Professionals who are making a name for themselves in both filmmaking and production. Organized in partnership with Fundación Diciembre, it is intended exclusively for Uruguayan productions and co-productions completed in 2022, that have not yet been released in the country and that do not exceed 15 minutes in length. The award is a ticket to the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
All short films are premiered on our screen before the Oficial Competition feature films.
A jury brought together by JIIFF is responsible for choosing the Jury's Prize of the 13th edition.
The filmmakers and producers of the competing short films actively participate in the screenings presenting their work to the public.
Alejandra Trelles
(Montevideo, Uruguay, 1974)
Journalist, film critic and teacher. Since 2009, she has been the director of the Uruguayan International Film Festival, organized by Cinemateca Uruguaya, which this year celebrates its 41st edition.
She has also been a programmer for the Punta del Este Film Festival, the Llamale H Festival and Cine a Pedal. In Spain, she programmes for the Cineuropa Festival in Galicia and the Malaga Film Festival. She has participated as a jury in numerous international film festivals such as the Berlinale, Karlovy Vary, Mar del Plata or Viennale. She is a translator and teacher and collaborates as a cultural journalist and film critic in various written medias, mainly the newspaper La Diaria and the weekly Brecha.
César Troncoso
César Troncoso is a Uruguayan filmmaker, theater and television actor active since the 90s. He's participated in more than 30 plays -including Fate of Two or Three Things, Frozen, Cruel Checkers and The Grönholm Method. In 2003 he made his first cinematographic work, the film El viaje hacia el mar. Since then he has participated in more than 30 films and series, in 5 different countries, including The Pope's Bath, Clandestine Childhood, O Seller of Dreams, The Night of 12 Years and Iosi, the Repentant Spy. He has received recognition for his work and career at various international festivals.
Gastón Solnicki
Gastón Solnicki is an Argentine director and producer, born in 1978. He studied at the International Center of Photography and earned a BA in Film from the Tisch School of the Arts - NYU. He directed Süden his first film in 2008. His second feature film Papirosen premiered at Locarno Film Festival in 2011, won the Best Film Award at BAFICI and was released in the United States. Solnicki's third film, Kékszakállú (2016), won the FIPRESCI for Best Film at Venice Film Festival. It was later screened at TIFF, NYFF and Viennale. Kékszakállú was selected by the renowned magazine Artforum as one of the ten best films of 2016. In 2018, he directed and produced Introduzione all'Oscuro, which premiered at Venice 75'. His films have recently been acquired by MoMA.
DECEMBER FOUNDATION
Fundación Diciembre is an initiative/opening move that comes along and promotes projects in the area of education and social inclusion. The December Foundation intends to contribute in the improvement and promotion of the values of freedom, solidarity, equality and respect for diversity. Its projects include support for organizations that promote educational debate, public schools in vulnerable areas, organizations with field projects in areas of extreme poverty, as well as projects that promote free expression.
DECEMBER AWARD
All the short films selected in the 13th edition of JIIFF compete for the December Award: an airplane ticket for the 2023 Cannes Film Festival appointed by a specially selected JIIFF jury and a piece created by the Uruguayan artist, Carlos Vignolo. In addition, each of the short films in competition will be part of the market catalog of the Short Film Corner of the Cannes Festival.
CARLOS VIGNOLO
The piece awarded by Fundación Diciembre is a creation of the Uruguayan artist, Carlos Vignolo. With roots in drawing and in the industrial design, he has experimented with different materials since the 1980s. This extensive exercise in the manipulation of shapes and different techniques leads to a dexterous handling of wood sculpture. Created especially for the winner of the JIIFF 2023 Short Film Competition, the piece is made of black acacia and it's inspired by the waves of José Ignacio, where the artist has been surfing since he was a child.
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