This past weekend, Dénia lived his third and fourth film session of the RIURAU FILM FESTIVAL with the presence, among other personalities and renowned professionals of the cinema, of the Councilor for Culture of Dénia, Raúl García de la Reina, Dora Martí, Promotion of Audiovisual at Institut Valencià de Cultura; José María Fraguas, producer, director and writer and Fernando Vera, film director who came expressly from San Sebastián to collect the prize.
With an absolute full, on Friday, September 6, short films of the general section were presented, including the winner of the Best Direction and City of Dénia Award, the Turkish Kassetby Serkan Fakili and the French Les Trompes de ma Mère from Sarah Heitz de Chabaneix who won the best screenplay award.
During this session the short films of the Dénia School were also screened, and the winner of the Riurau Cinema School Prize, which fell to Tornant, a film full of poetry about the passage of time made by the young Inma Gavilà and Vicent Avellà.
The screening of the short films by l'Escola de Cinema RIURAU at the festival supports the success of the students, which this year were also: Christine Willems for “Halima, Vola!”, María Chornet for “A La Que Vinga”, Anne Adam -Lemoine for “It's Like This” and Philippine Nordmann for “Lluny”.
On Saturday's screening day, presented by actress Inma Rodríguez, four films of General Fiction were screened, including the one that won the Special Jury Prize, presented by José María Fraguas, Steal You One Night of the director Fernando Vera, who explained that his will with this short film was to normalize and not dramatize the condition of disability of some people, but to integrate them fully, with their specificities, just as others have ours, in our society.
The three short films of the Social Thematic section, this year dedicated to Ethnic Integration were of great quality, however, highlighting North American production Skin by Guy Nativv, who won the Best Social Fiction Film Award.
Tribute to the Pessic Cinema Club
On Saturday he paid tribute to the PESSIC CLUB FILM, with the assistance of its president and his vocal Romualdo Soler. As every year, Riurau Film Festival pays tribute to a relevant figure in the cinematographic world. This year, in Dénia, we wanted to honor the work of this club, so dear to moviegoers in the region.
Created in 1991 in Pedreguer, the second year he moved to Ondara and from 1993 they work from Dénia. Like the Riurau Film Festival, the Pessic Cinema Club has a regional vocation. With almost thirty years of existence, this group came up with the idea of making movies in the villages and in Dénia, offering alternative programming, original subtitled versions, Spanish or Catalan films outside commercial circuits, cinema classics, films with interest for the younger audience and summer movies.
International Dance Meeting
Parallel to the projections, the VI INTERNATIONAL ENCOUNTER OF FILM OF DANCE, organized by the Riurau Film Festival and the Choreographic Center of Dénia with Joan Bernat Pineda, was also held at Artístics de Dénia. The papers, which have been published, "They constitute a compilation of the versatile elements to the representation of the human body in the work of art, dance and new technologies".
The speakers were Diego Rodríguez Soria, Carmen Martínez Samper who spoke about the Bauhaus, which marks the centenary of his birth this year, and its importance for the consideration of the human body in design and architecture. Leticia Fayos Bosch also attended the meetings that also spoke about the study of another of the speakers David López Ruiz, and completed the published studies Kevser Akçil, Carlos Salvador Balfagón, Daniel Jiménez Tena and Özlem Oguzhan, all of them from the universities of Kokaeli , Sakaria and Medeniyet from Istanbul (Turkey), from the University of Murcia, Polytechnic University of Valencia and University of Zaragoza.
