Your festival
In addition to being the film festival with the highest attendance in Central America, your Panama International Film Festival is
Do you remember that innocent childhood prank? “1+1= 11”
Alas!, as the Bard loved by Kurosawa Akira-sensei said, here we are: one you, plus one us, together we add our eleventh Festival in this 2022.
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And in this, its eleventh edition, your Festival will also be... unusual.
Like every year, we seek to share with the whole world the cinema of Central America and the Caribbean, written with C de Cine: a phoenix filmography that is born with strength, magic, and freshness from the ashes of history, suffering and the joie de vivre from our region C and C.
As we finish putting together your eleventh Festival, we share with you what the IFF Panama Festival has achieved in these eleven years:
Let's take a closer look at the elements that make up your Festival.
This 2022 we will have 11 films This 2022 we will have 11 films to celebrate our 11th birthday.under at least two curators.
These will include the national premiere of The Stars at Noon (France/Panama 2022) directed by our ally and accomplice Claire Denis, recognized worldwide for moving films such as Chocolat (Chocolate, 1988) and Beau Travail (Good job, 1999).
Always reflecting the diversity of Panama and its complex history, your Festival has had various venues whose disparate origins are intertwined, however, by cinema:
The City of Knowledge Athenaeum
La Manzana
Auditorium of the Museum of the Interoceanic Canal of Panama
Among many other curious facts, your Festival is possibly the only international film festival that takes place throughout the year —and high! —, no more and no less than 10,000 meters above sea level.
This is because Copa Airlines, Panama’s flagship airline and historical sponsor of your Festival, offers the IFF Panama Channel on all its flights, a special curatorship that elevates the best of IFF Panama to the skies of the Americas.
Although your Foundation carries out Industry activities throughout the year, your Festival dedicates part of its programming to specific Industry activities at the Festival, such as workshops, talks and master classes, sometimes aimed at experienced filmmakers, at others to our audience. In general, or to specific groups such as adolescents and young people and even girls and boys.
Our Festival Industry enriches its experiences with those of distinguished representatives of the international industry, in safe spaces that nurture new possibilities for inspiration, development, production, marketing and distribution of projects.
