The Català Som Cinema Audiovisual Festival will host the preview of Isabel Coixet's new feature film, Un Amor, in the 14th edition of the event.
Lleida will be the first place where the film, based on the novel of the same title by Sara Mesa, can be seen after its presentation at the last edition of the San Sebastián Film Festival and before its arrival in theaters on the 10th. November.
Between October 18 and 22, the festival will screen a total of 47 films, including feature films and shorts, fiction and documentaries, on different stages in Lleida. The contest is committed to local talent with the screening of short films made by students from Ponent high schools and a filming practice for students.
The artistic director of the contest, Judith Vives, said at the presentation of the fourteenth edition of the festival that it is a "joy" to be able to once again feature a work by Coixet, and added that the film will be screened on Saturday 21 October, out of competition.
Last year, the festival screened the documentary The Yellow Roof by the Barcelona filmmaker, about the abuses in the Aula de Teatre de Lleida.
In total, between the Screenbox Lleida, Ilerna and the University of Lleida this year you can see 47 works, including feature films and shorts, both fiction and documentaries, coming from Catalonia, the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands.
The exhibition dedicated to Catalan film productions maintains its commitment to young talent with the Som Secondary competition, in which you can see the works made by students from Ponent high schools and film students.
The inaugural session will be on October 18 in the Capponte Campus Auditorium of the UdL and will include the screening of the film Beach House, by Héctor Hernández. Apart from this film, the official section of fiction features is completed by Marc Esquirol's Two Days and Eternity; The dead remain with their mouths open, by Fabrizio Ferraro; Quest, by Antonina Obrador and Theory of Bodies, by Joan Ramon Armadàs. As for the official section of the fiction course, the contest has selected 12 works.
Six long documentaries can be seen: Maria and the forgotten film, by Núria Abad and Marta Hierro; Alteridades, by Noara Haddad and Alba Cros; Art of Height, by Sandra Bull; Empty Screens, by Miguel Eek; 'Toda una vida', by Marta Romero and '¿Cómo te llamabas antes y otras preguntas estupidas?', by Ibán Pàmies, Belén López and Toni Torbellino. The short documentary section includes five films.
Within the Som Secondary, this year eight short films made by students from the Caparella and Josep Lladonosa high schools, in Lleida, and La Serra, in Mollerussa, will be screened.
The contest will also present five short films made by students from Ilerna's Higher Level Training Cycle for Audiovisual Show Production and four from the Escola Catalana de Cinema i Televisió (ECCIT), based in Lleida.
Additionally, on Thursday, October 19, the students of Ilerna and the Higher Level Training Cycle in Theater Acting Techniques of the Lleida Theater Class will do a filming practice, in which they will reproduce a scene from last year's winning film, ' My emptiness and me'.
The competition will close on Sunday, October 22, with the awards ceremony and the screening of the documentary Clot, directed by Bòreas Talent, dedicated to the changes that the Clot de las Granotes square in Lleida has experienced over the years.
