The Biarritz Festival Latin America (french: Festival Biarritz Amérique Latine) is an international
film festival
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held annually in the
French
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city of
Biarritz
Biarritz ( , , , ; Basque also ; oc, Biàrritz ) is a city on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the French Basque Country in southwestern France. It is located from the border with Spain. ...
, since 1979
to promote the Latin American cinema and culture with the French people and offer opportunities to distribution or coproductions to Latin American films.
Description
The Biarritz Festival of Latin American Cinema offer competitions of unreleased films in long films, short films and documentaries (in partnership with Latin Union).
Furthermore, the films in competicion each year, festival presents annually homages and retrospectives around different themes.
The festival also offer discover the Latin American culture in other forms with literary meetings, expositions of fotographies and academic conferences.
The famous Village festival of conviviality and exchange located oceanfront, allows to attend exhibitions, lectures and evening concerts for free.
Awards
* HUG for Best Feature
* Jury Award for Best Feature
* Best Actress
* Best Actor
* Feature Film Audience Award in collaboration with Air France
* Prize of the French Union of Film Critics
* HUG for Documentary, Latin Union Festival of Biarritz
* Audience Award for Best Documentary Film
* HUG for Best Short film
* Special Mentions of the Short Film Jury
* Prizes Shorts TV Numéricâble
See also
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Cinema of Latin America
This is a list of films produced and filmed in Latin America, ordered by country of origin.
North America Mexico
South America Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
* ''Coronación'' (2000)
* ''Estadio Nacional'' (2002)
* ''Machuca'' (2004)
...
References
External links
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Official Facebook Page
Film festivals in France
Latin American film festivals
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