7th Cines del Sur Film Festival

The seventh edition of Cines del Sur, under the theme "Images of the Millennium," takes place from June 9 to 15, 2013, and is explicitly linked to the commemoration of the Millennium of the Kingdom of Granada (1013–2013), asserting the city as a historical meeting place for cultures. Over seven days, more than fifty works from the cinemas of Africa, Asia, and Latin America are screened, allowing for the sharing of diverse dreams and realities without losing sight of the festival's intercultural vocation.

The festival's structure is organized around a high-level Official Section screened at the Isabel la Católica Theater, the open-air section "Pantalla Abierta" (Open Screen), and a significant block of retrospectives, notably featuring "The Shochiku New Wave: The Cinema of Kijū Yoshida and Mariko Okada," produced in collaboration with the Japan Foundation. Additionally, there is a significant presence from the Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival, contributing a selection of award-winning documentaries, previously unreleased in Spain, screened at the Corral del Carbón along with a musical film series.

The festival strengthens its academic and regional dimension: the University of Granada joins the program with the "So Far, So Close" series, dedicated to Asian feature films distributed in Spain but never screened in Granada cinemas, while the Provincial Council promotes a Moroccan cinema section linked to the Millennium and the usual provincial extension cinesdelsur.ext. This extension is structured around "Pearls of the South," which revives emblematic titles from previous editions and brings them to both the capital and the province's municipalities.

Overall, the seventh edition is presented as a "mature" festival, supported by the Regional Government of Andalusia, the City Council, the University, and other institutions, which continues to bring to Granada films made "with effort and mastery" in remote corners and almost absent from commercial circuits. The catalog emphasizes that, in difficult times, Cines del Sur is a necessary space to look beyond the immediate, filling the beginning of summer with the lights, colors, and perspectives of a South that feels close and with which Granada recognizes itself in continuous dialogue.