The Lanzarote Film Festival, which celebrates its fifteenth edition this year, will start in November with the firm intention of offering a unique journey through cinema that connects the local to the global.
With the purpose of connecting with the public of Lanzarote, since 2018 the project revolves in each edition around an emblematic theme of the island that, at the same time, has a universal dimension. After having analyzed in recent years issues such as "the volcano", "the salt", "the emigration" or "the fishing", among others, the common thread of this year will be "the water", an element deeply linked to the deepest identity of Lanzarote, but also a fundamental element for the history and experience of all humanity.
The chosen films will bring us closer to the water
As the director of the Film Festival, Javier Fuentes Feo, has said, "the programming team has carried out an exhaustive investigation on the representation of this element in the history of cinema to gather those titles that evidence its overflowing symbolic, aesthetic and narrative richness. The chosen films, from different cinematographies and eras, will bring us closer to water as a landscape and as a metaphor, as a destructive force and as a source of life, as a presence that shines and as an absence that destroys, giving rise to diverse narratives and a great variety of genres: adventure, drama, science fiction, animation or documentary".
The Lanzarote Film Festival has the collaboration of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, the Centers of Art, Culture and Tourism, the Society for Foreign Promotion of Lanzarote through its product brand Lanzarote Film Commission and the sponsorship of the Government of the Canary Islands - Canary Islands Latitude of Life -, the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts of Spain (ICAA) of the Ministry of Culture and the Canary Institute of Cultural Development (ICDC) and its unit Canary Islands Film.
