During the next month of November, Lanzarote will once again look at itself in a cultural mirror and offer the world its reflection in a journey from the local to the global that the Film Festival has been developing for fourteen years, and that gives it its originality and transcendence in the universe of film festivals.
Beyond the public screening of films and the development of a competitive section that selects and awards the best international works of each year, this meeting, which has become a reference in international forums, will invite to delve once again into an issue intimately linked to the idiosyncrasy of Lanzarote, but that also marks the lives of many other places on the planet.
After having analyzed in recent years themes such as 'the volcano', 'the salt', 'the emigration' or 'the fishing', the guiding thread of the 14th edition of the Film Festival will be the concept 'islands' in all its breadth; the way in which the physical limits defined by the sea are both a border and a bridge of connection with other places and the inevitable generation of external dependence that this circumstance entails.
“The fact of being an island is, possibly, the most important aspect that defines the social and natural identity of Lanzarote. Islands are heterogeneous spaces but that, on many occasions, share identity aspects such as a certain degree of isolation, a certain exoticism, political and economic dependence on some administrative center, limitation of resources or social networks with logics linked to clearly bounded territories” says the president of Tenique Cultural and director of the Film Festival, Javier Fuentes Feo.
And he continues: “In the history of cinema, islands have been presented as fascinating spaces with innumerable perspectives: places of retreat and shipwreck, prison spaces, longed-for paradises, places of recreation and enjoyment, homes of evil geniuses, territories dedicated to sinister social processes or military enclaves. Islands are, without a doubt, one of the most interesting geographical spaces in universal culture.”
“Lanzarote has a lot to tell the world as an island full of wisdom linked to scarcity, isolation, the creation of opportunities in critical situations and the intelligent relationship with the natural environment, together with its status as a vanguard in growth containment policies, something in which the islands allow a fundamental reflection”, he concludes.
The poster
As in previous years, the image has been conceived by the international designer Jurgis Griskevicius, recently awarded with the third prize in the D&AD Awards, one of the most important recognitions in the field of design worldwide. The image synthesizes, as in previous occasions, the concept of the edition, in this case the possible idea of an island.
These posters, together with the t-shirts, the tote bags, the catalog, the program and the entire integral design of the project, seek to link the deepest aspects of Lanzarote's island identity with the current lines of contemporary design, always attending to the aesthetic approach of Tenique Cultural and the Film Festival.
The 14th Lanzarote Film Festival is organized by the non-profit association Tenique Cultural and is sponsored by the Cabildo de Lanzarote, the Centers for Art, Culture and Tourism, the Lanzarote Foreign Promotion Society through its Lanzarote Film Commission product brand, the Canarian Institute for Cultural Development (ICDC), the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts of Spain (ICAA), the Government of Spain through the Ministry of Industry and Tourism, the Government of the Canary Islands, Canary Islands Latitude of Life and the European Union, through the Next Generation initiative and the EU-Plan for Recovery, Transformation and Resilience.
