A pivotal meeting point where
the East meets the West, Trieste is a privileged and crucial
observatory of the Central and Eastern European countries. The
zero edition of Alpe Adria Cinema dates back to 1988, during a
period of great historical changes, when the free circulation of
ideas was obstructed by cultural, economical and political
division between the Western and the Eastern blocks. The great
challenge of Alpe Adria Cinema then was to contribute to
demolish that division, offering unknown masterpieces to a large
audience.
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The festival has been the
natural result of a long and silent work of study and research
on the cinema coming from Central and Eastern European countries,
and it has taken place in Trieste, where a group of film experts
who were already working with the cineclub “La Cappella
Underground” and who, without any kind of economical support, in
the 70s and 80s had organized several screenings and special
tributes to the cinema from the countries beyond the iron
curtain (Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia…),
completely isolated by their belonging to the Soviet block
itself, and by the Western markets’ censorship, but nevertheless
enlivened by interesting ferments, which have been particularly
perceived an felt by a town like Trieste, on the border with the
East. In the history and the culture of these Eastern European
countries Trieste has intertwined the roots of each own past and
its own difficult present, being a strategic and open border
zone, a crossing and a meeting place.
The 17th edition of Alpe Adria Cinema – Trieste Film Festival is
nowadays the most rich and articulated Italian film festival
devoted to the cinema from Central and Eastern Europe and beyond.
The Festival, run by artistic director Annamaria Percavassi,
owes its international well-establish prestige first of all to
the curious and long-term opening to the more ad more wide and
new geographical areas, and also to the focusing attention
towards the very high quality of the selection. The Festival is
a unique opportunity to meet with filmmakers, actors, film
professionals coming from these explored areas of interest, in
order to discuss freely with film critics and experts.
Every year the Festival displays a wide and diversified program,
composed of about 150 titles, with an increasing number of
international and national premieres of feature films,
documentaries and short films, all screened in three theatres in
their original version and subtitled into both English and
Italian. In addition to the presentation of the best films made
during the last year in the Central and Eastern European
countries, the Festival offers special events, unique
monographic sections and a retrospective traditionally devoted
to an important and original filmmaker of our areas of interest.
The Trieste Film Festival is an official member of the European
Coordination of Film Festivals and of CENTEAST, the Coordination
of Central and Eastern
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