Valladolid film festival to screen Chilean movies, look at Spanish Civil War

Chilean filmmaking in the postPinochet era, the Spanish Civil War and Richard Linklater’s pioneering role in independent films in the United States will be among the themes at the 61st Valladolid International Film Week, which will take place Oct. 2229.

The other themes include the 30th anniversary of Cuba’s San Antonio de los Baños International School of Film and Television, and movies based on works by Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare, the festival’s artistic director, Javier Angulo, said Monday.

Twenty titles produced in the past 25 years are part of the “Chilean Film in the 21st Century” offerings, which look at three generations of directors.

The festival will screen works by filmmakers who opted to remain in Chile during the 19731990 military regime, others who were forced to exile, like Patricio Guzman, and a new generation of directors led by Matias Bize, who won the Espiga de Oro award at the 2005 Valladolid International Film Week, and Pablo Larrain.

Eighty years after the start of the 19361939 Spanish Civil War, the conflict will the subject of a special presentation headlined by the documentary “Spain in the Trenches,” produced by Francisco Escribano for the Discovery Channel.