Fishing will be the protagonist of the XII edition of the Lanzarote Film Festival that will be held this year between November 24 and December 4.
More than twenty films from the history of cinema from all over the world in which fishing is the protagonist can be seen in the different municipalities of Lanzarote. The well-known pateadas that are held every year around the chosen theme will also be carried out, as well as conferences, panel discussions and meetings.
From the Exhibition they point out that "fishing is and has been fundamental for Lanzarote and for the Canary archipelago, as it has also been at a universal level throughout history, since it crosses numerous cultures and societies." "Following its objective of linking the local context with the global sphere, the Lanzarote Film Festival has selected this theme to focus a large part of its programming and the various activities it will carry out," they add.
Javier Fuentes Feo, director of the Film Festival, has stated that "this is going to be a very special year. Both the selected films and the chosen theme are incredible. The world of fishing is rooted in the memory of the people of our island and the Canary Islands. Until very few decades ago it was our most important source of income and shaped both the natural landscape and our ways of life. It has a social, human, aesthetic, festive and work dimension. Thinking about Lanzarote and its history is undoubtedly thinking about fishing, something that happens in other latitudes of the world. Once again we are going to connect the most local with the most universal.”
The design of the poster, made by the prestigious Lithuanian designer Jurgis Griškevičius, this year refers both to the scales that characterize much of the marine world and to the tails of the millions of fish that are caught every day.
