FUGA
Belgium, Netherlands, France | 2024 | 100 min | col.
A young man is going down the river on a boat. His face is sad. The young man is escorting the body of a trans girl to bury her in the Peruvian village from which she hailed. This comeback triggers encounters and memories. Along the journey, he meets people who tell him stories. Memories of tragic events linked to the civil war that has tormented the country for two decades. Memories of the massacres perpetrated by militiamen against those who lived their sexuality freely. The film is a collective story on the homophobic persecution at the expense of LGBTQ+ individuals during the last decades of the 20th century, a story that turns into a film narrative in the style that has long characterized the work of Bénédicte Liénard and Mary Jiménez. By way of the form of ‘poetic fiction’ which they privilege, empirical lives take on a universal character and become cinema. (d.d.)
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 08 Nov 2024
- Time: 11:00
Location
- Cinema La Compagnia - Via Camillo Cavour, 50/R, 50121 Florence
Organizer
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Mary Jiménez, Bénédicte Lienard
Mary Jiménez was born in 1948 in Lima (Peru) where she graduated in Architecture and Urban Planning. She then decided to move to Brussels to study Cinema at ISAS. Her career as a filmmaker runs parallel to her work as a teacher and her highly original filmography, active in both documentary and fiction cinema, makes her one of the most innovative and interesting filmmakers of her generation. On the occasion of its 56th edition, the Festival dei Popoli presented the first retrospective dedicated to her. ‘I found out that I wanted to be a film-maker in a dream’. | Bénédicte Liénard was born in 1965 in Frameries (Belgium). After studying cinema at the Institut des Arts de diffusion (IAD), she made some creative and commissioned short films. She was assistant to R. Ruiz, R. Depardon and the Dardenne brothers. She later signed her works as a filmmaker both on her own (D'arbres et de charbon) and in collaboration with Mary Jimenez (Sobra las brasas, By the Name of Tania).
