Do you know Culinary Cinema? All those who are passionate about gastronomy and cinema have an appointment from September 17 to 25 at the 69 º San Sebastian International Film Festival. In the section dedicated to gastronomic cinema, Culinary zinema, this year five feature films are presented. Four of them are world premieres and one opens in Spain. From Gastronomic Information we want to offer you an aperitif of this billboard.
Culinary Zinema 2021 Billboard:
The Pursuit of Perfection
A documentary directed by the Japanese director Toshimichi saito and shot in Japan. The film focuses on four top Japanese chefs in search of perfection and excellence. You can also see in this the different paths that each of these chefs explore in search of this excellence.
A documentary that goes beyond gastronomy and who seeks in the personality and experiences of each one his creativity y personal perfection. The documentary uses gourmet experts to help understand the creative path of each of these chefs. In addition, all this set in Tokyo, one of the gastronomically richest cities in the world.
Michelin Stars II: Nordic by Nature
Nordic by Nature takes us to the Faroe Islands. A remote place where it reveals its culture, its landscape, its traditions and its history. He does all this by discovering KOKS, a remote restaurant that has become a world reference.
A haute cuisine restaurant that gastronomy lovers wanted to visit and traveled to get to know it. The documentary reveals the young chef rasmus dinesen, which takes advantage of gastronomy to publicize all the products of this land of subpola climater, windy, wet, cloudy and cold. A place with average temperatures close to the freezing throughout the year, perpetual light in summer and oppressive darkness throughout winter.
Delicious
A film by the French director Eric Besnard which arrives at the San Sebastián International Film Festival after its premiere in France.
The film is set in the XNUMXth century France, at the beginning of what would be the French Revolution. At this time, the prestige and differentiation of each noble house depended on the quality of its cuisine. The film picks up the story of the dismissal of a talented chef Manceron by the Duke of Chamfort. This one retires to the field, Louise makes him return his passion for cooking and helps you open the first restaurant in France.
Reinventing Mirazur
A documentary film from the directors Franck Ribiere y Verane Frediani that tell the story of the Mirazur restaurant during the confinement.
Just before the Covid pandemic the Mirazur restaurant from the Argentine chef Mauro Colagreco receives its third Michelin star. In full confinement and on the French Mediterranean coast, where Mirazur is located, the chef and his team take this whole tragedy as a challenge. They work tirelessly to reimagine the menu following the principles biodynamic. From all this effort and passion arises the call Moon Menu.
The Footprints of elBulli
The directors Inigo Ruiz Aquerreta y Jose Larraza In Las Huellas de elBulli they review the history of Ferrán Adrià as the alma mater of what was the best restaurant in the world.
«The footsteps of elBulli» is a documentary that in addition to reviewing the trajectory of Ferran Adrià tries publicize your passion for creation. Also his spirit in search of this creation based on reformulation and the question of everything in a quest for innovation.
The most important chefs of the moment participate in the documentary, some of whom worked at elBulli. All of them convey the passion for exploring the unknown of the famous chef and where the mastery of a leader in forming the best team is appreciated. His most personal side stands out from the hand of his wife and his brother.
Thus, the documentary is used to publicize and explain Ferran Adrià's new project, at elBulliFoundation, a space for the study of creation and innovation that uses gastronomy as the axis of this study.
The documentary pays tribute to all those who were part of the Bulli and to everything they created for gastronomy. Las Huellas de elBulli is a documentary produced by Movistar that will premiere on this platform on October 7.
