Fernand Melgar retrospective at BAFICI in Buenos Aires
The Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente (BAFICI), one of the leading festivals in Latin America, is devoting one of its retrospectives to the Swiss filmmaker Fernand Melgar.
10.04.2012
Following retrospectives of films by Peter Liechti (2010), Thomas Imbach and Daniel Schmid (both in 2011), the major Argentine festival (April 11-22, 2012) is now directing its attention to Fernand Melgar. Last November SWISS FILMS had already initiated a retrospective comprised of films by this filmmaker from Lausanne at the Muestra Internacional Documental in Bogotá (Columbia).
The collaboration with BAFICI made way for further films from Switzerland: the 14th edition of the festival will close with the film “Sister,” which was honoured with an award at the Berlinale. Film director Ursula Meier is present with a second film “Des épaules solides” (2002), which will be presented in conjunction with a retrospective comprised of films screened in Cannes in the ACID section. In addition, the BAFICI will also draw attention to Swiss documentary filmmaking by presenting the films “Kampf der Königinnen” by Nicolas Steiner and “The Substance” by Martin Witz, as well as the short films “La faute à Rousseau,” launched by Rita Productions in Geneva.
Zurich, April 10, 2012