MADRID, 23. Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Pedro Almodovarthe director of the San Sebastián Film Festival, Jose Luis Rebordinos, YES Bayona O Emma Suarez You are among the 300 film personalities who have signed a manifesto in support of Argentine cinema and the INCAA (National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts) because “they are experiencing extremely worrying moments given the Milei government’s push against culture.”“.
The signatories joined the initiative of the Cine Argentino Unidos collective and wrote a letter protesting against the changes in the film law. “The law that the executive branch wants to pass provides for the destruction of the INCAA and with it the eight headquarters of the National School of Experimentation and Cinematographic Production (ENERC), an institution that provides free, high-quality public education in all regions of the country . In this way Under the pretext of economic efficiency, the new government is trying to deprive society of an important tool for the exercise of citizenship: culture“warns the organization that shared the manifesto on its Instagram profile.
Film directors Pedro Almodóvar, Aki Kaurismäki, the brothers Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Alexander Gonzalez Iñarritu, Juan Antonio Bayona, Isabel Coixet, Justine Triet, Fernando Trueba, Pablo Larrain u Olivier Assayas are some of the authors who appear in the long list.
Other signatories include the interpreters Isabelle Huppert, Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Juan Diego Botto and Emma Suárez as well as the directors of film festivals such as José Luis Rebordinos (San Sebastián) or their colleagues from Venice (Italy). or Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic).
The signatories support Argentina’s “emerging” film industry and oppose a rule that “will have devastating, incalculable and irreparable impacts.” “At Cine Argentino Unidos we defend everyone’s right to freedom of expression, access to culture and the possibility that our country continues to support one of the most admired and renowned cinematographies in the world.as the scope of this request shows,” the manifesto continues.
In this sense, they emphasize that “A people without history, without memory and without identity is easy to dominate and dehumanize“This is no coincidence,” they complain.
The text points out that Argentine cinema is a source of “admiration and inspiration” and mentions a quote from Scorsese about culture. “It is not a commodity, but a necessity. Culture belongs to a country, not a political party,” they say.
