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Choice Cinema is back in April: Macau International Film and Video Festival 2010

11/03/2010 09:15:00
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Still early, but about time to secure your tickets if you, as a movie-lover, want to be treated to selected movies that sometimes take long to go to the commercial circuits or are not shown there. Plus a chance to look at the latest videos and documentaries screened, both local and internationally made.
Macau International Film and Video Festival (MIFVF), on its Fourth edition, runs from 4-11 April at the Macau Cultural Centre (CCM)’s Small Auditorium.
To highlight the festival, there is Argentina’s “El secreto de sus ojos” (The Secret in Their Eyes) by Juan José Campanella, recently awarded an Oscar for “Best Foreign Language Film” by the Academy Awards (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ) in Los Angeles.
The movie to be shown on April 11, at 9:30 pm, closing the MIFVF with a golden key, was also awarded top film prizes at the Goya Awards in Spain, and the Havana Film Festival in Cuba.
Argentinean Campanella also directed “Hijo de la Novia” (Son of the Bride) in 2001 nominated for the Academy Awards’ Oscar and has been working on popular TV series such as  “Law&Order” and “House M.D.”.
 “The Secret in Their Eyes”, his return to feature filmmaking, is a superbly honed police procedural thriller, though one in which love is the central theme. With excellent performances by Ricardo Darin and Soledad Villamil as unconsummated lovers, Campanella uses flashbacks to establish an unresolved crime committed 25 years ago. Benjamin, now a retiree, is determined to find justice for this case once and for all. The thriller is based on a novel by      Eduardo Sacheri and is set to       Buenos Aires in 1999.
Argentina’s movies were nominated six times for the Academy Awards “Best Foreign Language” movie category but won only three times, counting Campanella.

Tickets already on sale at CCM’s box office and Kong Seng ticketing outlets. Priced MOP 40,00 but discounts apply.
For further enquiries and tickets purchase please visitwww.ccm.gov.mo or call (853) 2840 0555.

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