We are twice as excited: not only the American film festival in Barcelona, Americana Film Fest (our favorite film festival in Barcelona) is already here but also we will be covering the event as accredited media. Yay!
Our must-watch movie selection of the Americana Film Fest 2021
And we already have our selection of must-watch movies for this edition:
Palm Springs, (2020).
- Director: Max Barbakow.
- Reception: Palm Springs had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and it received two nominations at the 78th Golden Globe Awards (Best Motion Picture in Musical/Comedy and Best actor in Musical/Comedy.
- Plot: Science fiction romantic comedy film, two strangers met in a wedding in Palm Springs and get stuck in a time loop.
Feels Good Man, (2020).
- Director: Arthur Jones
- Reception: This documentary premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won a U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker.
- Plot: Documentary film about the meme Pepe the Frog, from its creation process to the creator’s struggle to reclaim control of the character as members of the alt-right start using the image for their own purposes.
The Last Black Man in San Francisco, (2020).
- Director: Joe Talbot.
- Reception: It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, and won awards for Best Directing and a Special Jury Prize for Creative Collaboration.
- Plot: Jimmie Fails is a young African-American who is trying to reclaim his childhood home, which is now an expensive Victorian house in a gentrified area of San Francisco.
The Killing of Two Lovers, (2020).
- Director: Robert Machoian.
- Reception: Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
- Plot: Drama movie about the complexity of relationships and family structures, reflected through the couple of David and Nikki. It has been described as the “rural counterpart of the movie ‘Marriage Story’”.
A special guest: film director Kelly Reichardt
Also, Filmoteca de Catalunya will hold a retrospective dedicated to film director Kelly Reichardt. We watched her film “Certain Women” at the Americana Film Festival a couple of years ago, and fell in love with its narrative poetry. Also, the movie was set in Montana and from that screening on she really got us :))
Want to attend the Americana Film Fest?
This year, due to covid restrictions the festival is offering two options of attendance: virtual and at cinemas in Barcelona (Phenomena, Cinemes Girona, Filmoteca). You can find all the information at Americana Film Fest website.