We're going back to Biarritz! And as usual, there will be some incredible, innovative Chilean films on display in this French city..

The 30th edition of the competition has selected four productions in two categories: Best Short Film and Best Documentary.

In addition, the great Ignacio Agüero will be given a Retrospective that celebrates his masterful career during the last decades, through a Retrospective with 13 of his films. Agüero's documentary work is one of the most thought-provoking from among the national cinematography, since he does not settle for recording reality, but seeks to recompose it.

The retrospective will include works such as: Animal de costumbre (1978); No olvidar (1982); El diario de Agustín (2008), and one of his last works, Nunca subí el provincia (2019).

SHORT FILM COMPETITION

 The way we look at today's films is necessarily influenced or guided by the global pandemic. This viewpoint has found its way into the short films that have entered this competition.

 Herbarium, by Francisca Lila, will premiere in this category. The production is a depiction of the current state of affairs, bearing witness to a breakage between man and his environment, portrayed through an attractive and judicious editing style.

DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

The cinematic experience put forward by the ten Latin American films that make up this year's selection is a journey through time, where the intimate details from each country brush up against universal themes, inviting us to question our relationship with the world.

The Chilean films selected for this new version of Biarritz include three outstanding titles:

• Cantos De Represion by Marianne Hougen-Moraga and Estephan Wagner, a film that distills the information and revelations on the history of the former Colonia Dignidad with tact and elegance.
• Cartas de una fanática de Whistler a un fanático de Conradby Claudia Carreño Gajardo, which begins with a trip made by the American painter James Whistler to Valparaíso, and seeks to follow the epic footsteps of the great adventurers.
• Nidal by Josefina Pérez-García and Felipe Sigala, a critical film that reminds us that cinema exists not to demonstrate but to show; in this case, showing the reality of the city of Concón, on the coast of Chile, which has been destabilized in its natural environment.

Fiction Competition

This year, the ten films in competition, whether more fantastically or more realistically, all seek to find gateways that allow the viewer to move from one world to another, to reconnect man with reality.

This is how these parallel worlds will be presented with the two Chilean films in competition, which are:

• Date Una Vuelta En El Aire by Cristián Sánchez, an absurd, hilarious and devastating comedy that has its roots in the films of Raúl Ruiz and Luis Buñuel and centers on the need to be part of a story, and to remember our origins in order to get to know each other better.
• Piedra Noche by Iván Fund, a co-production between Argentina, Chile and France, seeks to be a film that portrays the grief of childhood and the possibility (or impossibility) of reconnecting with it, with that capacity to amaze that is characteristic of age, seeking to portray that cinema must also be part of that reconnection.