eastern european directors star in the impropias selection of MICE’s 17th edition

The 17th MICE advances its parallel selections: Impropias, Trazas e Lindes.

Bulgarian film critic and programmer Mariana Hristova will be in charge of curating Impropias, one of the parallel selections of the Mostra Internacional de Cine Etnográfico Museo do pobo Galego, to be held in Santiago from March 28 to April 2.

Mariana Hristova’s selection, made months before the war was declared in Ukraine, makes a journey through the former Soviet lands that, nowadays in different contexts and borders, are still connected by a common past that defined the social, working and personal life of its inhabitants and that, as we see precisely with the sad events of these days, continues to have a fundamental weight. Through the subtle and penetrating gazes of four filmmakers, the program will take the audience to little-known corners of what was once the Soviet Union, with a focus on the multiculturalism of the territory, the everyday life after the disintegration, as well as the political and social perspectives that are now in the spotlight.

The films to be screened within IMPROPIAS are: Transnistra by Swedish filmmaker Ana Eborn, Sunny/Mziuri by Georgian director Keti Machavariani, Holidays by Russian director Maria Razbezhkina, The Hope Factory , by fellow Russian creator Natalia Meshchaninova, and Heat Singers by Ukrainian Nadia Parfam.

Another of the festival’s sections, TRAZAS, in which MICE collaborates with Cineclube de Compostela, has Vicente Vázquez Peleteiro as coordinator this year. As special guest will be the Catalan filmmaker Ferrán Llagostera, with the film “El mar de los peces. Notas sobre el Gran Sol”. Also to be screened in this section will be El něč em jiném, by Véra Chytilová, Lees prostituées de Lyon parlent , Carole Roussopoulos, Three Quarters, by Kevin Jerome Everson, Shannon one design, by David and Sally Shaw-Smith, and Classe de Lutte, by Groupe Medvedkine de Besançon. Trazas seeks to visualize the invisible works, the taboo subjects normally set aside from the working culture through a series of formally and thematically provocative proposals.

Santiago de Compostela, Tuesday, March 7, 2022

Bulgarian film critic and programmer, Mariana Hristova, will be in charge of curating Impropias, one of the parallel sections of the Mostra Internacional de Cine Etnográfico Museo do pobo Galego, to be held in Santiago from March 28 to April 2.

Mariana Hristova’s selection, made months before the war was declared in Ukraine, makes a journey through the former Soviet lands that, nowadays in different contexts and borders, are still connected by a common past that defined the social, working and personal life of its inhabitants and that, as we see precisely with the sad events of these days, continues to have a fundamental weight. Through the subtle and penetrating gazes of four filmmakers, the program will take the audience to little-known corners of what was once the Soviet Union, with a focus on the multiculturalism of the territory, the everyday life after the disintegration, as well as the social and personal life of its inhabitants.


LINDES is another of the parallel selections of this 17th edition of MICE. A meeting point around the creative processes and documentation of films with ethnographic interest, in which women once again play a leading role. Nación, by Margarita Ledo, A virxe roxa, by Marcos Nine and Cadernas de Olloboi, a documentary about cinema in Galician classrooms in the last 10 years, will be screened at the opening session of the 17th MICE.

The festival will take place from March 28th to April 2nd in Santiago de Compostela and has the support of the City Council of Santiago de Compostela, the area of culture of the Deputación de A Coruña, the Axencia Galega das Industrias Culturais (AGADIC).