Today kicks off the 19th edition of the Lanzarote International Film Festival

This Friday returns the International Film Festival of Lanzarote (FICL), which this year celebrates its 19th edition. From May 10 to 18, and with the CIC El Almacén as the main venue for the screenings, it brings with it a program that again has the short films as protagonists.

In total, 91 works in its five official sections: Documentary, Animation, Canaries, National and International. A selection committee was responsible for screening among the 3,191 works of 116 nationalities that were presented, a figure that managed to beat the record of participation in the FICL one more year.

For Ismael Curbelo, director of the FICL, “this is undoubtedly the most important work of the entire Festival, an invisible work, but of vital importance to continue with the high qualitative level that the FICL has shown”.

We must remember that since the year 2017 the FICL is one of the qualifying festivals for the Goya Awards. This implies that the short filmmakers who win the National Short Fiction and Short Documentary categories will also get the direct inscription in the Goya Awards granted by the Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences of Spain. All the programming can be consulted here