DOMANI E’ UN ALTRO GIORNO Round Table on Projectuality, the constraints and the resources for Film Festivals in Italy

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DOMANI E’ UNALTRO GIORNO

Round Table on the projects, on the constraints and the resources for Film Festivals in Italy

MONDAY 30th NOVEMBER, 2:30pm held at the Auditorium of Sant’Apollonia- Florence

By now Film Festivals represent a true cinematic circuit that loosens throughout the years and in places all over Italy. It is important to maintain a platform which is the principle mode of cinematic promotion in Italy. Festivals, like all other cultural manifestations, especially in this time of economic crisis, look to maintain it by their own means and with the support of the private sector. However, it is without doubt that to generate this type of cultural economy it is necessary to have support from the State and from local entities.

But by which criteria, with which decisions and by which means?

With a look into the near future, the round table ‘Domani è un altro Giorno’  [part of the 56th season of the festival dei Popoli in Florence from 27th November to 4th December] will look at the new guidelines of the general direction for cinema by the Minister for Cultural Goods and Activities, directed by, Nicola Borrelli. It will anticipate the content on the presence of the members of the Ministeral Commission. Not forgetting the role of the regions- with the presence of the assessor for the culture of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, Gianni Torrenti, and of their Film Commission (he will interview the president of the Italian Film Commission, Stefania Ippoliti) and the importance of private provisions.

The festival system is not an alternative to that of traditional cinema, because it is often put into the same category of business and broadens the function of the promotion of the cinema. Overall it will be important to listen to the ideas of Senator Rosa Maria di Giorgi, first person to sign off on the ddl on the reorganization of the cinematic and audiovisual system.

The Italian Cinema Festival Association proposes therefore not only to analyze the true state of the public financial lines but also to propose certain projectuality and transparence for the future, drawing attention to the winners and to the resources available today, with one hopeful look to tomorrow. Which is another day.  

Arriva un weekend con esterno/giorno

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And so begins ShorTS XVI – Log of the inaugural evening

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Imagine reading a book (a good book, naturally) and arriving at page 16. We are, therefore, still at the beginning of the adventure, when the vase on the windowsill of life must produce better flowers. Sixteen is the number of this year’s ShorTS International Film Festival, and it’s breathing young air, very young air, as we will see. Classicism and modernity were already working together during the press conference in the luxurious rooms of Teatro Verdi. Then, it was still reasonably cool, but now on the first of July, the temperature is making our thermometers crack. And so we abandon ourselves to watching short films on the big screen.

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After the customary presentation by Chiara Valenti Omero – who rightly underlined the difficulties experienced when putting together any event, together with all the energy required – and after the always agreeable presence of Zita Fusco, there was only really space for pictures.child k

A dramatic impact was made by the Italian short Child K from the De Feo, Palumbo duo: starting off with a verbal disagreement between two young people on the eve of the birth of their first child; shortly afterwards  the story turned into a harsh critique of the horrors and abuse of human beings perpetrated by Nazis; such a captivating work that it left the audience in silence.

Equally drammatic was the English-Irish coproduction Here by C. Eastwood, which revolved around the insuppressable need to have closure on the past, although blood and guilt were seen in the public accusations; undoubtedly the author recalls the subtle atmosphere loved by the likes of Peter Wier.

Juan y la nubeGiovanni Macelli with Juan y la nube chose to tell a gripping story and in his own surreal way benefits from using cartoons as a figurative mirror; undoubtedly the young Juan has taken his place amongst little heroes. The first clouds contrasted with a sky that, on the other hand, seemed to uphold the proverb “red sky at night…”, however, not much time had passed before it began to rain. Chiara Valenti Omero was not afraid to tell the audience to stay put and in fact, the weather listened to her.

The evening advanced with the agitated Neko Od Nas by Anja Kavic, where verbal, and then physical, weapons gleamed threateningly: an excellent close pyschological examination of the characters.

Then we arrived at a director who knows very well the difficult art of joining cinematic entertainment with historical context, reproducing a summer in the 60s, what happened, what was hidden… credit goes to The Landing by Josh Tainer.

It would have been difficult not to have be struck with the enthusiasm of human fondness, when faced with two young brothers, aspiring businessmen, at the doors of an adult world, featuring both clients and police investigators. In the final moments, the smaller of the two brothers, showed that perhaps he had indeed learnt some commendable entreprenurial skills. And so went Tormus by Sari Bisharat.

Our Francesco Calabrese, however, played with the technicolour apartments and settings in Beverly Hills, for the grotesque ‘pochade’ The Shift; almost a throwback tribute to the feminine world and warning of when women transformed themselves from sex kittens to viragos.

Ex.Amen by Yury Sukhodolskiy, did not follow an expected path, thanks to an extraordinary male character that continually went back and forth between his own past and present; almost citing Fellini and his “Otto e mezzo”, where Marcello Mastroianni embraced a girlfriend sporting his mother’s face… a danse macabre with the Nordic weather, like Ibsen or Strindberg.

Luckily, film still moves us, as we shed sincere tears, we can only declare: Hurrah to the art of cinema! All of this to honour the beautiful Cuerdas by P.S. Garcia, where an adorable, animated girl, took care of boy much less fortunate than herself; a beautiful parable of friendship, and of support given without reserve.Berlin Troika

The most ‘musical’ amongst you will remember the surreal videoclip of Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Two Tribes, where two figures dressed as the presidents of the USA and USSR beat eachother up; nothing compared to what happens in Berlin Trokia by A. Gontcharov, where constrictions within the political world, descend into an explosive scene.

Particularly tasty was the colourful situation put forward by Hu Wei with La lampe au beurre de yak: an endless photography session with nomadic tibetan characters or assorted ages, always with different backgrounds, a guise to conduct a bitting analysis of the world of pictures.

The rich evening closed with Polish director M. Wojciechowski’s Under_Construction, reminding us through the tricks of film animation, of our daily relationship with time: almost a waltz of the synchronicity of human days.

It’s still hot, very hot, and maybe even the stars tonight have had a shower: that’s what happens when you go to the cinema with ShorTS. Until Friday evening.

Riccardo Visinitin

Presentation of the 16th annual ShorTS

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SHORTS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Trieste, 2nd – 10th July 2015

XVI edition

XVI ShorTs International Film Festival in Trieste, the city on the sea, from 2nd to 10th July 2015.Conf stampa-31

Stars under the stars: a big outdoor screen in Piazza Verdi in Trieste, next to the splendid theatre, will host a marathon dedicated to the best short films at an international level, which have already won at least one prize and have come from all over the world. 89 have been selected from over 1300 contenders, which will compete for the prize of €10,000 for the best overall short film. The Jury will be made up of actor and director Pippo Delbono, actress Chiara Caselli, producer for Rai Cinema Carlo Brancaleoni, critic Luisa Morandini and journalist Emanuela Genovese. Producer Claudio Bonivento will, however, award the special prize for Italian production, whilst the public – given voting forms at the beginning of each screening – will decide the winner of the Trieste Caffè Public’s Prize.

For lovers of feature films, there will be Cinema Ariston, reserved for 10 Italian debut works: the best will be judged by the Nuove Impronte jury, composed of producer Francesca Cima, director Francesco Parietno and actress Barbora Bobuľová. For this category too, the public will be called upon to decide who will win the Bakel Public Prize.

After Sergio Rubini, Margherita Buy, Laura Morante, Murray Abraham and Francesca Neri, the star of this year’s festival will be actress Barbora Bobuľová, who will meet with the public in Trieste and talk about her brilliant carrier.

ShorTS International Film Festival, this year like every other, renews the ‘gamble’ on new talents in Italian cinema and in 2015 the star of the “Prospettiva”, the field for emerging Italian actors, will be Jacopo Olmo Antinori. A Tuscan, from the class of 1996, he was already a stage actor before making his debut on the big screen as the lead character in “Io e te”, a film directed by Bernando Bertolucci. Antinori won the AKAI International Film Fest Award for best actor at the last Venice Film Festival, for his work in the film “I nostri ragazzi” (2014) by Ivano de Matteo, his co-stars included Alessandro Gassmann, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Luigi Lo Cascio and again Barbora Bobuľová. The film will be screened on 10th July at 21:30 at the Ariston Cinema, with both Jacopo Olmi Antinori and Barbora Bobuľová present. The two actors will also meet with the public on Thursday 9th July at 18:30 in the area of Teatro Verdi reserved for the festival.

Conf stampa-45New in 2015 for ShorTS, a real festival within a festival: SweeTS4Kids, with an actual ‘size xs’ artistic director, Tommaso Gregori, age 10. He was brought up on bread and cinema, being the son of film critic Beatrice Fiorentino. Competing in SweeTS4Kids, 27 short films from all over the world – chosen from around a hundred – made with children in mind and chosen by the youngest artistic director on the festival scene. The jury will be made up of 101 children between the ages of 8 and 13, the “Jury of the 101”, and will assign the prize of best short film. The screenings will take place in the Auditorium of Museo Revoltella on Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th July at 18:30.

During the festival, you will also be able to visit the city of Trieste under the unusual guise of ‘places from films’, through the Esterno/Giorno walks. Together with the film critic Nicola Falcinella, on Thursday 9th and Friday 10th July at 6pm, you will be able to retrace the locations and stories of many works for the big screen filmed in the city, because of the light quality of its sea sunsets, the beauty of its historic buildings and its surrounding nature. Trieste, because of its position on the border, a joining point between east and west Europe, has always been highly appreciated by directors from all over the world, from Mauro Bolognini to Luchino Visconti, from Francis Ford Coppola – who chose the old fishmarket to shoot some scenes in the Godfather II – to Cristina Comencini, from Anthony Minghella, who wanted Porto Vecchio for some scenes in The English Patient, to Giuseppe Tornatore.

The walks are free and have the themes “Once upon a time there was a city of lunatics” on Thursday 9th and “A walk in the Trieste of the Cinema” on Friday 10th. Participation is open to a maximum of 35 people for each walk and reservation is obligatory and possible until 12pm of the day preceding the visit, by calling +39 339 4535962 or emailing casadelcinema.trieste@gmail.com. In case of bad weather, the walk will be postponed.

In this 16th ShorTS, there is still the ‘Oltre il Muro’ section, which since 2009 has seen the films of Maremetraggio enter Trieste’s prison. This year once again a jury of 14 prisoners will choose the best film for the ‘Oltre il Muro’ prize. The jurors will watch the competing Italian short films on the 6th, 7th and the morning of the 8th July in prison and will award their favourite film on Thursday 9th July.

And then two other special events in the programme during the festival: 3rd July at 5pm in Teatro Verdi, as is tradition, the usual presentation of Premio Mattador jury, whilst on the 8th July at 6pm, in the area of Teatro Verdi reserved for the Festival, the press meeting open to the public will take place with Marco Taralli, composer of the music for the first Italian execution of the film “Femmine Folli” by Erich Von Stroheim (1922), programmed for the 12th July at 20:30 (tickets €5) at Teatro Verdi in Trieste.

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Meetings with actors and directors, special events, cocktails with the stars of Italian and foreign cinema, the grand finale on Friday 10th July with a double event: at 11:30, in the festival’s area of Teatro Verdi, the meeting with directors and jury members, whilst at 19:00 at the Civico Museo Teatrale “Carlo Schmidl” in the Bobi Bazlen room, the Gran Galà Finale with the announcement of the winners and the giving of prizes of the 16th annual ShorTS International Film Festival.

The festival is carried out with the contribution of the Ministry for assets, cultural activities and tourism, the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, Turismo Fvg, the district of Trieste, the Fondazione CRTrieste, the Chamber of Commerce of Trieste and the Fondazione Casali. The event profits from the collaboration with Trieste Estate, the province of Trieste, the Casa del Cinema of Trieste, Cinema Ariston and Teatro Verdi of Trieste. Jaguar, Bakel and Trieste Caffè are the official partners of the 2015 festival.

Download here the programme

Press Office:

Daniela Sartogo (+39.3428551242) daniela.sartogo@gmail.com

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ESTERNO/GIORNO – Walks to discover cinema in the province of Trieste

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What better way to discover Trieste and the Region, its surrounding areas, celebrated scenes, forgetten film anecdotes, symbolic images and places you didn’t know had been filmed, if not a “cinematic walk”?

An initiative that aims to promote, through the lens of film, the culture of the area, its peculiarities and precious sites.

For dates, routes, information and to reserve a place, visit the website of Casa del Cinema di Trieste:  http://www.casadelcinematrieste.it

If you have an Apple device, download the FVG Film Locations App with the new special Esterno/Giorno itinerary. To learn more click here.

During the walks you can post content and photos using the hashtags#esternogiorno #FVGfilmlocation #TriesteSocial and #discovertrieste.

“ShorTS Surf the Web”

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Vote on Il Piccolo’s website for your favourite short film!

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Short films are like popcorn, after one you always want another! This is why once Napoleon, being notoriously “short”, discovered popcorn could no longer do anything else, to the point where even world domination had to wait. This is the meaning of the picture, designed by Leonardo Di Rocco with graphic design by Francesco Cappellotto, from the imminent 16th annual ShorTS International Film Festival of Trieste.

There are 89 short films chosen by Maremetraggio association, selected from over 1300 from all over the world, and which from the 2nd to the 10th of July will be projected onto the big screen in Piazza Verdi, competing to become the Number One short film of the festival.

Seven of these are included in the “ShorTS Surf the Web” section and you can see them, in collaboration with Il Piccolo, on the newspaper’s website and vote for your favourite. The one that receives the most “consiglia” (recommendations) will premiere on the 10th July at 7pm in Palazzo Gopcevich. During this evening the Trieste Caffè audience prize for the best short, the Studio Universal Prize for the best Italian short and many other prizes will be awarded.

These seven short works chosen for the “ShorTS Surf The Web” section are powerful yet delicate, dealing with sensitive and current themes: the power of the pharmaceutical industries, having to leave your home to work abroad, friendship, love, death, homosexuality, fate…

The short films featured are Domoj (Germany) by Simona Feldman, Luigi e Vincenzo (Italy)  by Giuseppe Bucci, Swan (Ukraine) by Oleksandr Danylenko, Yo te quiero! (Argentina) by Nicolás Conte , Zu Risiken Und Nebenwirkungen (Germany) by Dustin Loose , Mit Besten Grussen (Austria) by Bernhard Wenger and The Shift (Italy/USA) by Francesco Calabrese.

From today until the last day of the festival, you just need to go to www.ilpiccolo.it and vote for your favourite short film with a simple “consiglia”.

 

Feature films in competition

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There are ten first Italian works in competition this year in the Nuove Impronte section of ShorTS International Film Festival of Trieste, taking place between the 2nd and 10th of July at Cinema Ariston: feature films, created by very talented Italian directors who are yet to have gained recognition, which have not found a distributor or of which only a few copies were released.

Deciding the prize for the best film will be the Giuria Opere Prime (Jury of First Works), which includes film producer Francesca Cima from Sacile. But the viewers will also be invitated to express their preferences, awarding the most apprectiated film with the Premio del Pubblico Bakel. Recognition will also go to the best actor and actress from the competing films.

Through the Nuove Impronte section, Maremetraggio wants to emphasise an aspect which is unedited and  little known in Italian cinematography. Emerging directors who, after short films are now testing themselves for the first time in the creation of a feature film. Authors who are independent, experimental, bold, or maybe already able, from their debut work, to think big thanks to ambitious, international coproductions. This does not offer an exhaustive panorama, but certainly is an indication of the present and future of Italian film. “This year,” explains Beatrice Fiorentino, film critic and head of the section, “we have sought above all to seize promising signs, researching proof of vitality of a cinema that, despite difficulties, is still able to reflect the present day and express itself through an untested process of storytelling”.

Thus competing we have films such as “Medeas” by Andrea Pallaoro, a director from Trento who relocated to the States: Medeas is a modern take and fascinating revisit of the classic myth of Medea, presented for the first time at the Biennale in Venice in the Orizzonti section in 2013 together with  “Cloro” by Lamberto Sanfelice, presented at the Berlinale in the Generation section and at the Sundance Film Festival 2015, in which the 17 year old protagonist is played by Sara Serraiocco, also the lead in Salvo by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza and “Perfidia” by Bonifacio Angius, which competed in Locarno 2014. They offer a route of study that traverses the idea of family, of jail, obession, desire and repression.

The comedies –  “Short Skin” by Duccio Chiarini, amongst the Golden Ciaks of 2015, and “The Repairman” by Paolo Mitton, from 2013, presented in the Festa Mobile section of the 31st Turin Film Festival, at the Raindance Film Festival and at the Festival of Shanghai, starting however a fresh and non conventional look that abbandoned the stereotypes of Italian comedy, in which the characters do not hide their fragility, from a bitter aftertaste, like in the best traditional Commedia Italiana, when a smile makes you reflect. In competition there is also “Abacuc” by Luca Ferri, shown at the 2014 Turin Film Festical and “I resti di Bisanzio” by Carlo Michele Schirinzi, featured in the Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema di Pesaro 2014, an avant-garde film, that shows that in Italia there are still people who want to be unconventional.

There is also “Fantasticherie di un passeggiatore solitario” by Paolo Gaudio, that won the Grand Prix du Festival at La Semaine du Cinema Fantastique 2014 in Boston and that mixes live action and animation to form a immersive and surreal atmosphere. “Senza Nessuna Pietà” a detective film by Michele Alahaique with Pierfrancesco Favino, presented at the 2014 Venice Festival in the Orizzonti section, that could by the sign of a redeparture for a new period of Italian cinema. “Last Summer” by Leonardo Guerra Serragnoli, international coproduction from 2014 with a technical cast full of big names: from Oscar winning costume designer Michela Canonero to editor Monika Willi, alongside Austrian director Michael Haneke and Japonese actress Rinko Kikyuchi who has worked in Pacific Rim.

Ten unmissable titles for those who want to be introuduced to the new authors of Italian cinema.

 

 

[:it]Ecco l’immagine ufficiale di ShorTS 2015

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Mesdames et Messieurs,

I present you the official image of ShorTS – International Film Festival 2015.

Short films are like popcorn, after one you want another. But each one, every single element in its brief duration, contains a world, a universe of emotions.

When we taste them we are like Napoleon who, facing the great and grandiose conquering of the world, prefers a single moment of taste and sensory explosion.

This year, you too will try our shorts and you won’t regret it!

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art: Leonardo Di Rocco

 

ShorTS is looking for volunteers!

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Do you like cinema? Do you want to gain a better understanding of what goes on behind the scenes of an international film festival?

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Do you want to have contact with directors, actors and producers and those who are established in the cinematography world ?

Are you enthusiastic, practical and eager to get involved?

If so, you are exactly who we need for the 16th ShorTS International Film Festival!

Our volunteers will have the opportunity to work in close contact with the staff in the execution of the most important tasks for the organisation of the event: hospitality, promotion and the setting-up of venues.

You will be able to practise any foreign languages you may know, meet lots of interesting people and discover everything that happens backstage at a big international event.

 

To let us know your availability, please fill in this film to send it to us as soon as possible at info@maremetraggio.com

 

Thanks for your help!

The selection for the “SweeTS 4 Kids” section is now also closed

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The selection for the new section dedicated to short films for children aged 8 to 13 “SweeTS 4 Kids” is now closed.

Here are the short films competing:

Bardo  by Marija Apcevska

Banka by Tatiana Kiseleva

Bendik & monsteret by Frank Mosvold

Bobby by Mehdi m. Barsaoui

Cactus et sac à puces by Nicolas Bianco-Levrin

Captain fish by John Banana

Couplet de la rue de Bagnolet by Quentin Guichoux

Dans un petit bateau by Charlotte Cambon

Dove ti nascondi by Victoria Musci

Gustave XIV by Nicolas Bianco-Levrin

Historia De Un Oso by Gabriel Osorio

Il était une feuille by Anais Scheeck

La grenouille aux souliers percés by Juliette Cuisinier

La Ragazza e la Gondola by  Abbe Robinson

Le Zèbre by Viviane Boyer-Araujo

L’école del Beaux-Arts by Anne Huiynh

Les oiseaux du soucis by Marie Larrivé, Camille Authouart

Les quatre sans cou by Alix Fizet

Min vän Lage by Eva Lindström

O canto dos 4 caminhos by Nuno Amorim

Out of This World by Viktor Nordenskiöld

Papa by               Natalie Labarre

PYSE by Siri Rutlin Harildstad

SHLYAPNAYA TEORIYA by Asya Strelbitskaya

Tant de forets by Burku Sankur, Geoffrey Godet

The Sound of Crickets by Justine Klaiber

Volk i baran by Nataliya Grebenkina