Kossakovsky's 'Antipodas' to spread out Argentine fest

BUENOS AIRES - Russian helmer Victor Kossakovsky's "Vivan las Antipodas!" (Lengthy Live the Antipodes!) will open the 26th Marly del Plata Film Festival, Latin America's only Fiapf category A fest, on November. 5. The docu, playing from competition, explores the planet through antipodal locations -- situated 180-levels opposite from one another worldwide, from Argentina and China to The country and Nz. Coordinators of Marly del Plata, which runs November. 5-13, will announce the selection for that worldwide competish within the future. The very first films revealed have incorporated a ten-pic Argentina competition along with a 16-title works-in-progress sidebar. Both lineups consist of films from first-some time and emerging company directors, an attempt seen by experts from the fest for that event to locate its very own niche regarding the regional pre-eminence from the Buenos Aires Festival of Independent Film, the greatest in the united states. One of the photos from tyro company directors are Veronica Rocha's village docu "Ferroviarios" (Railroad Employees), Sebastian Caulier's black comedy "La inocencia p la arana" (The Innocence from the Spider), Maria Eugenia Sueiro's brother or sister tale "Nosotras sin mama" (Us Without Mother) and Nicolas Gil Lavedra's "Verdades verdaderas. La vida p Estela" (True Facts. Estela's Existence), a docu about human-privileges activist Estela Carlotto. Other game titles are Nicanor Loreti's boxing thriller "Diablo," Mariano Galperin's teen romance "Dulce p leche," Dario Doria's dancing docu "Elsa y su ballet" and Baltazar Tokman's raising a child expose "Planetario" (Planetary). The job-in-progress section includes "Mujer conejo," a thriller by Veronica Chen ("Water") and "Mujer Lobo" by Tamae Garateguy, whose gangster movie "Pompeya" won the Argentina competition in the earlier edition from the event. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com