7th Iff Panama Opens with ‘A Fantastic Woman’

Panama City — On Thursday night, Panama City’s Teatro Balboa hosted the opening ceremony of the 7th Panama International Film Festival, screening the 2018 best foreign-language Oscar winner, Sebastián Lelio’s “A Fantastic Woman” in the presence of the pic’s lead actress, Daniela Vega.This year’s edition has a record number of films and participating countries – 75 films from 51 countries, including two world premieres.

Since the fest’s launch in 2012, it has welcomed over 4,300 films and over 700 international guests.Speaking onstage to a packed audience in the 1,200-seater cinema, fest director Pituka Ortega Heilbron greeted “extraordinary films, extraordinary guests, a passionate audience and a hopeful future for the cinema of our region, to which we are deeply committed.”She noted that more than 10% of our program is occupied by Panamanian cinema.

“The local industry is growing and we are happy to be its platform.

We are absolutely ecstatic that our

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