Over the last few years, great international personalities from independent cinema have passed through FICX. Names such as Aki Kaurismäki, Claire Denis, Todd Haynes, Philippe Garrel, Lucrecia Martel, Darren Aronofsky, Pedro Costa, Kelly Reichardt, Tsai Ming-liang, Lisandro Alonso, Nicolas Winding Refn or Chloë Sevigny, and, as part of our juries , John Cale, Maria Schneider, Monte Hellman, Luis San Narciso or Whit Stillman. During the celebration of the Gijón / Xixón International Film Festival, meetings, exhibitions, talks, masterclasses and FICX Pro, a program of activities for professionals in the audiovisual world, are also organized.
Gijón is a festival of commitment, of commitment to new filmmakers and new avenues of expression, a festival always open to the latest trends and with an interdisciplinary vocation that calls for heterodox authors and movements, new proposals and new paths.
With a flexible and open programming scheme that incorporates numerous activities - thus demonstrating that fun and rigor are compatible - it has progressively become a forum where distributors, producers and the media can check the scope and depth of a certain type of cinema, always before an increasingly numerous and participatory audience.
In this sense, the festival fundamentally seeks to help these ‘other’ cinematographies, other than blockbusters, stop being a cult object for initiates and gradually reach a wider audience.
Gijón is a festival of commitment, of commitment to new filmmakers and new avenues of expression, a festival always open to the latest trends and with an interdisciplinary vocation that calls for heterodox authors and movements, new proposals and new paths.
With a flexible and open programming scheme that incorporates numerous activities - thus demonstrating that fun and rigor are compatible - it has progressively become a forum where distributors, producers and the media can check the scope and depth of a certain type of cinema, always before an increasingly numerous and participatory audience.
In this sense, the festival fundamentally seeks to help these ‘other’ cinematographies, other than blockbusters, stop being a cult object for initiates and gradually reach a wider audience.
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