One of our favorite festivals is assembling yet another impressive line-up this year; the Sitges Film Festival, which our man John “The Arrow” Fallon faithfully covers year after year, has released its schedule for the 2011 edition, a partial listing of which we have for you below. In addition, we’ve got a still and teaser (above and below) for the opening night film, EVA, which is new to me, but looks most intriguing.
SITGES 2011 delves into the concept of artificial intelligence, examining how it’s been discussed in film and what its future prospects are as regards to fiction and reality.
With the tenth anniversary of A.I. (Steven Spielberg, 2000) as a point of contact, the Festival will consider the questions that inspired Kubrick and Spielberg for this project: the emotional intelligence of machines and communication between synthetic intelligences.
The Catalan production Eva (Escándalo Films), distributed by Paramount Pictures and with the international participation of companies like Wild Bunch, will be opening the Festival’s 44th edition on 6 October.
Eva, Kike Maillo’s first work, explores science fiction through a very coherent approach with this year’s leitmotif, and is a new commitment to new talents, following the Festival’s line in recent years (J.A. Bayona, Guillem Morales…).
At the opening gala the film will be screened in Catalan and the following public screening will be in Spanish, with press screenings in both languages.
In addition, there will be other long-awaited Catalan and Spanish film productions like:
Mientras duermes (Sleep Tight), by Jaume Balagueró, a filmmaker who will be receiving one of the Festival’s tribute awards, The Time Machine.
La Mujer del Eternauta, by Adán Aliaga, a documentary revolving around the comic, an allegory of Argentinean society in the times of Videla.
The Spanish Cuban co-production Juan de los Muertos, an ironic vision of Cuban reality, that will be the main attraction on Zombie Walk day, 14th October.
Emergo, by Carles Torrens and produced by Rodrigo Cortés for Versus Entertainment.
Some of the outstanding international films that will be participating include:
The Turin Horse, by Béla Tarr.
The Yellow Sea, by Na Hong-jin, director of The Chaser (Korea).
Les Contes de la Nuit, 3D animation, by Michel Ocelot.
Grave Encounters, directed by The Vicious Brothers, a recent blockbuster in Italy.
Burke and Hare, by John Landis.
Continuing with our commitment to Latin American genre film, we will be including productions like Trabalhar cansa, from Brazil.
Once again the Festival will focusing on 3D Cinema in different sections, with movies like Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy, in Midnight X- Treme, one of the big box office hits in Hong Kong or The Mortician, by Gareth Maxwell Roberts, in the in Competition Official Section, an innovative stereoscopic technology proposal.
Asian cinema will continue to be represented in several movies programed in the Festival’s different sections, identified with the Casa Asia hallmark.
Noves Visions (Fiction, Non-Fiction and Discovery), Anima’t, Nova Autoria, (in collaboration with SGAE), Seven Chances, Brigadoon and Midnight X-Treme, the Festival’s main sections, will be announced over the upcoming months.
For the full schedule, click right HERE. The Sitges Film Festival runs from OCTOBER 6 – OCTOBER 16.
EVA teaser trailer
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