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The projection of the movie ‘The Kings of the world’directed by the Colombian Laura Mora, and which was the winner of the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián Film Festival in 2022, will put the finishing touch this Saturday at 8:00 p.m. to the eighth edition of WofestHuelva.
The film collects a story about disobedience, friendship and dignity that exists in the resistance, in which five boys from the streets of Medellín embark on a journey in search of the promised land. Graduated in Film Directing from the RMIT University of Melbourne, Laura Mora is also the director of the feature film ‘Matar a Jesús’, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and at the San Sebastián Film Festival in 2017, where it was awarded a mention special in the New Directors section, Eroski Award and Critics’ Signis Award. She has also directed series for Netflix such as ‘Green Border’ or ‘The Robbery of the Century’.
Before, at 6:00 p.m., the short films will once again be the main protagonists in the Gran Teatro with the session dedicated to projecting the works presented in the ‘Made in Huelva’ contest, the short film competition directed by Huelva filmmakers who live in Huelva, or that have been filmed in the province. The filmmakers Edith Fernández and Lucía Espinosa, Inmaculada Vázquez González, Luichi Macías and Natalia Escaño are the finalists of this edition of the contest, with which WofestHuelva aims to enhance and promote the talent of women directors, screenwriters and filmmakers.
After the screenings, the prizes will be awarded, both from those awarded by the official jury of the contest -formed by the secretary of the Social Council of the University of Huelva, Susana Duque, the journalist and writer Mari Paz Díaz Domínguez and Alfonso Díaz, producer and distributor of LINE UP – Film Agency- as well as the one awarded by the audience with their votes.
Tickets to see both sessions are priced at 2.50 euros each and are available online on the website https://entradas.huelva.es/ and in person at the ticket office of the Gran Teatro in the afternoon one hour before the start of the session.
Friday with documentaries and independent cinema as protagonists
Today, Friday, has had an intense agenda, which began in the morning at the University of Huelva, where the award-winning documentary directed by Laura Hojman ‘A las mujeres de España’ was screened for secondary school students. Maria Lejarraga. The film focuses on the figure of this writer and pioneer of feminism in Spain during the 20s of the last century, and whose works came to light under the name of her husband, the theater manager Gregorio Martínez Sierra.
The act was attended by the director of the documentary, who held a discussion with the attendees together with the director of the Juan Ramón Jiménez Chair, Rosa García. Hojman highlighted that, in his opinion, the story of María Lejárraga is “an example of the invisibility that has fallen on women” and that, through her voice, she wanted to speak “of that history of women that has been buried unfairly”.
Rosa García also wanted to highlight the importance of art to “create awareness” since “if today we are talking about all this, and the case of María Lejárraga makes us think, it is because another woman artist, such as Laura, has made a work of art that manages to reach people’s emotions and awaken consciences”.
In the afternoon, the people of Huelva were able to enjoy the work of a local filmmaker, Inés Romero, co-director with Pablo Coca of the documentary ‘Generación Jarcha’, which was premiered internationally. After the screening, the attendees -among them several former members of the group- were able to enjoy an endearing meeting with the directors, in which Inés Romero insisted on the idea that this is a “memory” documentary of an entire era and which reflects how the group managed to verbalize what many people felt at that time and that it was, fundamentally, “the search for that space for Andalusia”.
He also considered that, in this documentary work, they have combined “the look from within, of the person who has been a member of the group and who, therefore, has some feelings about it, with the external view that Pablo contributed, with what I believe which is round from the point of view of telling the story of Jarcha”.
Pablo Coca stressed that he considered making this documentary considering that “there was a soundtrack that had to be told about the contemporary history of Andalusia from late Francoism to now and that this was Jarcha”. In his opinion, the members of this group were, in addition to the chroniclers of Andalusian history, “those people who tried to find a decent place for this land in the world and who taught us to be Andalusians, which is nothing else than being able to look at other peoples face to face, without complexes”.
After the screening of this documentary, it was the turn of independent cinema, which Wofest pay special attention this year. At 8 pm the film ‘Ramona’, Andrea Bagney’s first film and in which the singer Lourdes Hernández debuts as an actress, was screened. Before the film, a short presentation video of its director was projected, who was unable to be present at the show.
At 22:00 the day ended with the screening of the acclaimed first feature film by British director Charlotte Wells. This is the film ‘Aftersun’, with which the director has won awards such as the Bafta for best debut by a British director or seven awards at the British Independent Film Awards, among many others.
