Serbia - Slovenia - France - Hungary - Croatia, 2009, 35mm, col., 105’, Serbian, Slovenian, Albanian o.v.
Trieste Award to the Best Feature Film
SHORT FILM COMPETITION
DER KLEINE NAZI (THE LITTLE NAZI)
by Petra Lüschow
Germany, 2010, 35mm, col., 14’, German o.v.
Mediterraneo Cinema Award
to the Best Short Film
The prize is offered by Mediterraneo Foundation
DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION
CINEMA KOMUNISTO
by Mila Turajlić
Serbia, 2010, HD, col. & b-n, 100', Serbian o.v.
Alpe Adria Cinema Award to
the Best Documentary Film
CEI Award - Central European Initiative
TO DUŠAN HANÁK
Alpe Adria Cinema - Trieste Film Festival has decided to award Slovak film director Dušan Hanák with the CEI Prize 2011 to because in his cinema and in his works he has always dealt with issues related to the necessity of building a dialogue among different cultures, and to the difficult and controversial relationship between individuals and power
CINEMA ZONES
SCONFINATO. STORIA DI EMILIO
(BORDERLESS. STORY OF EMILIO)
by Ivan Bormann
Italy, 2010, DV, col., 52’, Italian o.v.
The prize is offered by the Province of Trieste
January 18, 2011
WHEN EAST MEETS WEST
Trieste Cross-border Meeting
January, 19-21 2011
It will start tomorrow, Wednesday 19, and will last until January 21 WHEN EAST MEETS WEST, the co-production event organized by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Fund and the Trieste Film Festival, in collaboration with EAVE, ANTENNA MEDIA TORINO, MEDIA DESK ITALIA, and under the patronage of EURIMAGES.
The aim is to encourage the cooperation between Eastern European countries and Italy and one other Western European country in focus: after the 2010 successful pilot edition (focused on Spain) in the 2011 edition the Western selected country will be France.
WHEN EAST MEETS WEST will bring together producers, film funds representatives, commissioning editor, sales agents and film experts from both regions.
Amongst the companies/institutions which already confirmed their presence:
ARTE (France), RAI 3 (Italy), HRT (Croatia), RTV SLOVENIJA (Slovenia), EASTWEST DISTRIBUTION (Austria) FILM EUROPE (Czech Republic), COPRODUCTION OFFICE (France), SOUL FOOD (Serbia), SLOVENIAN FILM FUND (Slovenia), CROATIAN AUDIOVISUAL CENTRE (Croatia), NATIONAL FILM CENTER (Bulgaria), FILM CENTER SERBIA (Serbia), SLOVAK FILM INSTITUTE (Slovakia), GEORGIAN NATIONAL FILM CENTER (Georgia), MACEDONIAN FILM FUND (Macedonia), CNC (France) REGION PACA (France)
The programme will include the Pitching of 16 projects in development - selected amongst 92 applications from 18 countries - and a three-day Film Forum designed to investigate both Eastern and Western audiovisual panorama through round tables, presentations and case studies.
More infos on the page dedicated to WEMW on this site.
Photogallery: WHEN EAST MEETS WEST - day 1
January 17, 2011
This year’s Trieste Film Festival once again includes “WALLS OF SOUND”, now in its third edition. For those still unfamiliar with it, this is the section of the festival which concerns exclusively films on a musical topic made in central and eastern Europe in the past year. This year too there will be films for all tastes covering all kinds of musical styles, ranging from rock, punk and techno to partisan songs, as well as experimental, ethnic and folk music and there will even be time for avant-garde music (which will be setting the key to this year’s section).
ZEW WOLNOŚCI - Beats of Freedom, by Wojciech Słota and Leszek Gnoiński, takes us on a journey through Polish rock music from the late fifties to the fall of Communism thanks to an astonishing array of archive footage of the various bands, with commentary by the English music journalist Chris Salewicz. This fascinating material reveals the role of rock music in creating and molding the young rebels behind the Iron Curtain (strongly recommended to those who enjoyed last year’s How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin).
Romania’s contribution will include Alexandru Mavrodineanu’s MUZICA ÎN SÂNGE, the story of a little boy who is the victim of a perverse mechanism that tries to turn people into stars at any price, and THE SHUKAR COLLECTIVE PROJECT, by Matei-Alexandru Mocanu, which explores a human and musical experiment combining spoons and decks with the best Romanian techno music and traditional Rom tunes.
From Serbia come two stories of personal fulfilment, one set in the present and one with its roots firmly in ex-Yugoslavia: ZVEZDA JE ROÐENA, by Vanja Kovacević, describing the experiences of a Decemberists cover band whose drummer (who is also the director) only has a few months in which to learn to play the instrument before having to get up on the stage, and MICA I OKOLNE PRIČE, by Milan Nikodijević, about the legendary singer Milica Ostojic, aka Mica Trofrtaljka or Mica Davorika, who became a star in seventies Yugoslavia thanks to her controversial lyrics and is now a demure middle-aged lady who cheerfully describes the experience straight to camera.
Meanwhile, Andraž Pöschl’s PESEM UPORA - Songs of Resistance is set between Slovenia and Italy and illustrates how the partisan songs of the Second World War are still sung today, even by the younger generations.
Finally, audiences will get the taste of the most daring experimental music in V I N Y L - Tales from the Vienna Underground (by the English director A.C. Standen-Raz) played in the challenging environment of the Viennese underground. ES WIRD EINMAL GEWESEN SEIN, by Anca Miruna Lazarescu, sets its sights beyond the present into a weird future. Everyone is invited into the deconsecrated German church in this documentary, where a single note composed by John Cage rings out. There’s no hurry; it will still be echoing in the year 2640…
Completing the section again this year is a feature film, WSZYSTKO CO KOCHAM - All That I Love, by Jacek Borcuch, a story of punk, love and personal growth set in the Poland of Solidarnosc. The film was screened at the Sundance Festival and is the Polish candidate for the Oscar for best foreign film.
So that makes nine films in all, two of which will be given a special night screening, for those who like to stay up late at the cinema too. Nine films on what it means to make music yesterday, today and tomorrow. Happy listening (and viewing) to everyone!
January 15, 2011
The 22nd edition of the Festival, directed by Annamaria Percavassi, will take place at the Teatro Miela and the Ariston Cinema and will present, as usual, stimulating competition sections (feature, short, documentary) and a range of homages, retrospectives and meetings. The Festival’s 3 competition sections (representing 23 countries) as every year will try to document and interpret the most original trends coming from Central-Eastern Europe, and prizes will be awarded (for the first time this year) by the audience.
The festival will be launched by the Academy Award winner Danis Tanović's CIRKUS COLUMBIA (with which he goes back to Yugoslavia in the days before the 1991 war, telling a story of friendship and loneliness) and will be closed, on 26 January, by the latest work from genius Georgian director Otar Iosseliani, already successfully shown at Cannes: CHANTRAPAS is an autobiographical tale divided between Georgia and Paris, past and present.
Among the special events of this edition is GADKIJ UTENOK (THE UGLY DUCKLING): Andersen’s fairytale and Tchaikovsky’s music for a great Russian animated film which was six years in the making and directed by Garri Bardin (Palme d’Or for Best Animation Film at Cannes in 1988 for VYKRUTASY); INDIGENE D’EURASIE (EASTERN DRIFT): a story spanning East to West, from Lithuania to France, escaping the Russian mafia, and with the director himself Sharunas Bartas (original and meticulous author of multi-award winning films) and top model Elisa Sednaoui as the leads; and, staying with Bartas, SHARUNAS BARTAS, AN ARMY OF ONE by Guillaume Coudray, who has worked and lived with the Lithuanian director and filmed both his portrait and a very personal view of his life.
The retrospective of this edition will be dedicated to Sergej Loznitsa, feted at Cannes 2010 for his wonderful SČASŤJE MOJE (MY JOY). This is a powerful and dark narration of a sort of descent into Hell, which won the Grand Prix at the recent Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn. This retrospective on Loznitsa’s work (12 films from ‘96 to the present) allows us to retrace the author’s creative journey. Born in Belarus, he grew up in Ukraine and matured by attending the cinema schools of St. Petersburg and Moscow before emigrating to Germany in 2001.
The Trieste Film Festival, by looking in-depth at his ‘real cinema’, will also explore the talent of Slovak director, scriptwriter and photographer Dušan Hanák by showing 4 of his feature films.
The tribute to Dušan Hanák has been realised in collaboration with the Slovakian Cinema Institute.
This year’s programme will provide various opportunities for study and in-depth reflection, offering our young guests the chance to take advantage of the presence of some important professionals attending both the Trieste Film Festival and the When East Meets West event. This is a co-production event in its second year, organised by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Regional Fund, together with the Trieste Film Festival, EAVE, ANTENNA MEDIA TORINO, MEDIA DESK ITALIA and under the patronage of EURIMAGES. The objective is to encourage co-operation among Eastern European countries, Italy and another Western European country, which, in 2011, will be France. The programme includes the pitching of 16 projects selected in collaboration with EAVE and a Film Forum aimed at exploring the audiovisual landscape of Eastern and Western Europe through round tables, presentations, case studies and showings.
The Eastweek Project, organised by Elena Giuffrida, currently in its third edition, is keeping its commitment to bring to Trieste about thirty young directors and scriptwriters from Central-Eastern European cinema schools and academies, giving them the opportunity to take part in the Festival as well as in meetings, seminars and special showings. Two great masters - director Jiří Menzel and actor Rade Šerbedžija - will meet students and audience alike to talk about their amazing careers.
Also Walls of Sound is back: the Festival section dedicated to music films produced in Central-Eastern Europe in the last year is now in its third edition. Rock, punk, techno, but also partisans’ choir songs, ethnic, folk and experimental music, and - in the very spirit of this section - even an excursion into avant-garde music.
This year, as in previous editions, the musical section will include a feature film: WSZYSTKO CO KOCHAM (ALL THAT I LOVE), by Jacek Borcuch is a fictional story about punk, love and growing up, set in Poland at the time of Solidarność. This film was presented at Sundance and is the Polonian candidate for the Academy Awards in the category “Best Foreign Language Film”.
The 2011 edition will also include the ZONE DI CINEMA (Cinema Zones) section focussing on the best films most closely linked to the territory. This section was shown this year at the Pécs Film Festival, the Hungarian city that was the European Capital of Culture in 2010.
“LO SCHERMO TRIESTINO” (“Cinema People Of Trieste”) will pay homage this year to an important cinema figure from Trieste - Callisto Cosulich, one of the most prestigious film critics in Italy. He was asked to choose four cult movies that are especially representative of his very own cinematic values. One of the four scheduled films (LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN) will be presented in its full version, having been restored by the Cineteca Del Friuli which has recently acquired it from the MoMa in New York. The film will be shown with live music accompaniment at the piano.
Among this year’s innovations is the Corso Salani Award. The ‘Associazione Corso Salani’ has decided to create an award dedicated to the memory of the director (who passed away prematurely last June) who, more than anyone else, was able in these last few years to create an incredibly innovative kind of cinema, showing an exemplary commitment to independent movie making against any market demand. In the spirit of Salani’s work, €10,000 will be awarded to one of the “works in progress” of 5 independent Italian filmmakers, in order to contribute to the completion of the work.
(more info and the complete programme of the festival are available in the section “programme”)
The opening film of the 22nd edition of the Trieste Film Festival will be CIRKUS COLUMBIA, by the Oscar winner Danis
Tanović (who won in 2002 with No Man's Land), with the director present. In Cirkus Columbia, Tanović comes back to 'his' Yugoslavia, in the days before the war of '91, with a story of loneliness and friendship, drawn from literary debut of Croatian journalist Ivica Ðikić. The main character is played by Miki Manojlović, one of Kusturica's and Paskaljević's favourite actors. With him, one of the most famous actresses from ex Yugoslavia Mira Furlan, also well-known for her roles in television series LOST and BABYLON 5.
“I was attracted to making a film set in this pre-war period because I was interested in the lives of these everyday people in the advent of big historic shifts, the storms of history. I wanted to show how oblivious they were in that narrow space between peace and war ... I was also interested in how the ordinary man next door can become a war camp warden, a torturer, a murderer… I sometimes feel that in 1992, when communism fell, we stood on the edge of a wide abyss. The rest of the world watched silently on the other side. We were forced to jump, but we did not make it to the other side. And we are still falling.” (D. Tanović)
november 4, 2010
WHEN EAST MEETS WEST 2011
Trieste Cross-border Meeting
CALL FOR ENTRIES!!
Deadline: December 3, 2010.
WHEN EAST MEETS WEST is a co-production event organized by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Regional Fund, the Trieste Film Festival, in collaboration with EAVE, MEDIA DESK ITALIA, ANTENNA MEDIA TORINO, and under the patronage of EURIMAGES. The aim is to encourage cooperation between Eastern European countries[1] and Italy and one other Western European country in focus (in the 2011 edition the Western selected country will be France).
After the 2010 successful edition focused on Spain, WHEN EAST MEETS WEST will be held in Trieste from the 19th to the 21st January 2011, and will bring together 14 selected producers with one project in development suitable for co-production between Eastern European countries, Italy and France.
Applicants should be experienced producers who already produced an international co-production and wish to create long term creative and business relationships between East and West. The projects should be feature films or documentaries, preferably with a minimum of 20% of the budget already in place.
All applications must include:
- producer’s CV
- CV of the writer and (if already attached) director
- company profile and track record
- synopsis (1 page maximum)
- approx. 5 – 8 page treatment / exposé in English
- financing plan
All documents must be in English and must be sent via email before December 3, 2010 to udine@fvgfilmcommission.com
The 14 selected producers will have the chance to meet individually a large panel of decision makers and film experts from both regions. One of the attending producers & projects will be awarded a scholarship for the EAVE 2011 European Producers Workshop. WHEN EAST MEETS WEST will also include a two-day Film Forum designed to investigate both the Eastern and Western audiovisual panorama through round tables, presentations and case studies.
Amongst the experts who attended the first 2010 edition:
Àngela Bosch CATALAN FILMS & TV (E), Nerina Kocjancic SLOVENIAN FILM FUND (SLO), Sanja Ravlic CROATIAN AUDIOVISUAL CENTRE (HR), Jovan Marjanovic CINELINK (BiH), Mira Staleva SOFIA MEETINGS (BG), Victor Carrera TV3 CATALUNYA (E), Igor Palcic RTV SLOVENIJA (SLO), Hrvoje Juvancic HRT (HR), Lorenzo Hendel RAI TRE (I).
The projects selected will be announced the 16th of December. WHEN EAST MEETS WEST will offer up to 4 nights of accommodation in Trieste and will reimburse the travel expenses to all 14 producers selected.
For making a mockery of the word “provider,” Dogtooth’s twisted language reveals painful contemporary social problems common to everyone and marks a new era of Greek film.
The young Hungarian director explores sexual relationships, provokes understanding of reality, shows awareness of visual style and talent for a precise cinema language. She shows compassion for her characters without any sentimentalism. The jury is already waiting for the new film of this very promising director.
Mediterraneo Cinema Award
to the Best Short Film
FELICITÀ
by Salomé Aleksi
Georgia, 2009, DigiBeta, col., 30', Georgian o.v.
The film is a precise and bitterly funny portrait of rural Georgian and European society in time of economical and political chances.
Special Mention
ODIGIES CHRISEOS
(INSTRUCTIONS)
by Costas Yiallourides
Cyprus - Greece, 2008, DigiBeta, col., 27', no dialogues
The film is charming and speaks about loneliness with lightness in a total cinematic way without words but with feelings, bodies and repetitions.
Special Mention
Documentary Film Competition
DIE FRAU MIT DEN 5 ELEFANTEN
(THE WOMAN WITH THE 5 ELEPHANTS)
by Vadim Jendreyko, Switzerland - Germany, 2009, 35mm, col., 93', German, Russian o.v.
The Jury unanimously agreed on the winner of the Documentary competition. The award goes to the director who impressively managed to grasp the nature and the essence of the personality of his main character. Through a very subtle and simple film language he introduces this adorable human being, driven by the values of humanity and art. With a great commitment and respect to the topic, he explores all the layers of a complex personality that stimulates the awareness and sensibility in all of us. We were very much impressed by this touching portrayal of a character in her advanced age who still offers an inspiration and creative energy also to the youngest generation and provides the viewer with an overwhelming spectre of emotions.
Alpe Adria Cinema Award
to the Best Documentary Film
17 AVGUSTA
(17 AUGUST)
by Aleksandr Gutman
Russia, 2009, DigiBeta, col. & b-n, 62', Russian o.v.
The director manages to create a great empathy with his character; without predjudices and through a special visual style, he explores with an impressive respect to a human being the life in prison and the endurance of the human mind to survive in any condition.
Special Mention
HOLKA FERRARI DINO
(FERRARI DINO GIRL)
by Jan Němec
Czech Republic, 2009, DigiBeta, col. & b-n, 68', Czech o.v.
The director gave us a great example of the call of an author’s engagement and by using filmmaking as a mean of autobiographical diary he brings to our present time the cruel history of his nation. He uses the film as one of the main characters, which plays an important role in the narrative structure, thus creating a great example of metacinema.
For the capability to tell a story with efficiency and proportion, a story that is emblematic of the problems linked with globalisation and at the same time stresses the profound humanity of the leading characters.
For the film that best interprets the contemporary reality and dialogue between cultures
STURM
(STORM)
by Hans-Christian Schmid
Germany - Denmark - Netherlands, 2009, 35mm, col., 105', English, German, Bosnian, Serbian o.v.
feature film competition
BOB
by Jacob Frey, Harry Fast
Germaniy 2009, 35mm, col., 3'30'', no dialogues
short film competition
DIE FRAU MIT DEN 5 ELEFANTEN
(THE WOMAN WITH THE 5 ELEPHANTS)
by Vadim Jendreyko
Switzerland - Germany, 2009, 35mm, col., 93', German, Russian o.v.
documentary film competition
WAITING FOR THE FESTIVAL -january 8, 2010
One of the most important French and international actresses, Fanny Ardant, will be attending the Festival Closing Night. Since her debut in 1976, Ardant has played the leading role in several and unforgettable films such as The Woman Next Door (1981) directed by François Truffaut and in the same year in Bolero by Claude Lelouch. She starred in Benvenuta by Delvaux in 1983 together with Vittorio Gassmann, with whom she worked also in Ettore Scola’s The Family and The Dinner; in Sabrina by Sidney Pollack in 1995 and in 8 Women by Ozon in 2002. She worked as an actress with Volker Schlöndorff, Alain Resnais, Costa-Gavras, Margarethe Von Trotta, Patrice Leconte and Tsai Ming-liang. She has often worked also in Italy, where she made her last appearance in Paolo Sorrentino’s Il Divo, and where she had led the role of Maria Callas in Zeffirelli’s Callas Forever).
This year she made her debut as a filmmaker, directing and writing the film that will close the 21st Trieste Film Festival, the French-Rumanian co-production Ashes and Blood: the story of a woman (the Israeli actress Ronit Elkabetz) that raises her three children alone after her husband being murdered, and who goes back to her native country, Rumania, after 18 years to attend a wedding.
The film will be presented January 28 at the Cinema Ariston, where Ardant will meet the public before the screening and after the Award Ceremony of the 21th edition of the festival.
Among the Festival guests we are honoured to welcome also the Greek Maestro Theo Angelopoulos, who directed films such as O Megalexandros(1980), The Beekeper(1986), Landscape in the Mist(1988, Silver Lion in Venice), The Suspended Step of the Stork(1991), Ulysses’ Gaze(1995, Grand Jury Prize, Cannes) and Eternity and a Day(Golden Palm in Cannes in 1998, the only one assigned to a Greek film director so far). The Festival will screen his Voyage to Cythera(1984, starring Giulio Brogi, never released in Italy) and also premiere his last film The Dust of Time(screened out of competition in Berlin in 2009), second episode of his new trilogy/historical saga, whose first episode was The Weeping Meadow, and starring Willem Dafoe, Bruno Ganz, Michel Piccoli and Irène Jacob.
An event of great interest will be held at Museo Rivoltella (via Diaz 27, Trieste) on January 26th, where Theo Angelopoulos and Claudio Magris will talk on the historical, political, geographical and cultural changes from the Fall of the Berlin Wall until today. Among the other participants of the open encounter also Omero Antonutti and Franco Giraldi.
WAITING FOR THE FESTIVAL -december 28, 2009
Among the special events of this year, the Festival will present Politist, Adj. (Police, adjective) by Corneliu Porumboiu. The Rumanian film director was born in 1974, studied Cinema in Bucharest and is among the best representatives of the “New Wave” of cinema from Rumania. With his previous works (such as his short film A Trip To the City, 2003, awarded both in Cannes and in Montpellier) he received several prizes in many international film festivals. In 2006 his debut film A fost sau n-a fost? (12:08 East of Bucharest) won the Caméra d’Or in Cannes for the Best First Feature Film and was also awarded in more than 20 festivals. Politist, adjectiv is a comedy with dramatic elements which - as Porumbou himself has declared - owes a lot to Italian Neorealism and to De Sica’s films: Cristi’s story, a policeman refusing to arrest a young boy who offered some hashish to a couple of school mates. In spite of the fact that the criminal offence should be punished, Cristi thinks that the law related to this specific issue is about to be modified, therefore does not want to be held responsible for the boy’s destiny… although his chief does not agree with him. Politist, adjectiv has been written, directed and produced by Corneliu Porumboiuand won the Jury Prize at the last Cannes Film Festival, in the section "Certain regard".
The Festival is delighted to have as mostly welcome guests for the first time both Goran and Vladimir Paskaljevic. The first, born in 1947, made very well-known films such as Time of Miracles, Tango Argentino and The Powder Keg and has been a constant as well as a friendly presence at the Trieste Film Festival with his works. This year he will attend the festival presenting his last film Honeymoons, the first Serbian-Albanian co-production which premiered in Venice within the section Venice Days and won the Audience Award at the last Thessaloniki Film Festival. The film follows the parallel stories of two young couples of today Serbia and Albania, who decide to leave their countries in search of a better life in Western Europe. The film is narrated with a visionary and colourful style which has always been characterising Paskaljevic’ filmography.
If Paskaljevic senior and his Honeymoons are one of the special events of the Festival, his 35-years-old son Vladimir will premiere in competition his debut film Djavolja varos (Devil's Town),a choral and sharp black comedy. The film is articulated in several stories blending in only one day – the day of a very important tennis championship live on Tv, where the greatest Serbian tennis stars will compete) and set in modern Belgrade, the ‘Devil Town’ of the title.
Among the feature films competing – all of which Italian premieres – there will be the revelatory KYNODONTAS (Dogtooth) by Yorgos Lanthimos, awarded by Paolo Sorrentino at the last Cannes Film Festival as the best film in the Certain regard section, a savage and bitter investigation into the family as institution, told in a grotesque, surreal style. This is a film that once again exemplifies the great vitality of Greek cinema, which in recent years has produced a generation of young filmmakers now making names for themselves in numerous international festivals.
A house, a tall fence surrounding it, a father, a mother and their three kids, brought up without any infuence from the outside world live into a microcosm about to explode. Yorgos Lanthimos studied film and television direction at Stavrakos Film School in Athens. Since 1995 he has directed feature films, theatre plays, videodance and a large number of TV commercials. He was also a member of the creative team which designed the opening and closing ceremonies of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.
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The opening film of the 22nd edition of the Trieste Film Festival will be CIRKUS COLUMBIA, by the Oscar winner Danis
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Among the special events of this year, the Festival will present Politist, Adj. (Police, adjective) by Corneliu Porumboiu. The Rumanian film director was born in 1974, studied Cinema in Bucharest and is among the best representatives of the “New Wave” of cinema from Rumania. With his previous works (such as his short film A Trip To the City, 2003, awarded both in Cannes and in Montpellier) he received several prizes in many international film festivals. In 2006 his debut film A fost sau n-a fost? (12:08 East of Bucharest) won the Caméra d’Or in Cannes for the Best First Feature Film and was also awarded in more than 20 festivals. Politist, adjectiv is a comedy with dramatic elements which - as Porumbou himself has declared - owes a lot to Italian Neorealism and to De Sica’s films: Cristi’s story, a policeman refusing to arrest a young boy who offered some hashish to a couple of school mates. In spite of the fact that the criminal offence should be punished, Cristi thinks that the law related to this specific issue is about to be modified, therefore does not want to be held responsible for the boy’s destiny… although his chief does not agree with him. Politist, adjectiv has been written, directed and produced by Corneliu Porumboiu.jpg)
The Festival is delighted to have as mostly welcome guests for the first time both Goran and Vladimir Paskaljevic. The first, born in 1947, made very well-known films such as Time of Miracles, Tango Argentino and The Powder Keg and has been a constant as well as a friendly presence at the Trieste Film Festival with his works. This year he will attend the festival presenting his last film Honeymoons, the first Serbian-Albanian co-production which premiered in Venice within the section Venice Days and won the Audience Award at the last Thessaloniki Film Festival. The film follows the parallel stories of two young couples of today Serbia and Albania, who decide to leave their countries in search of a better life in Western Europe. The film is narrated with a visionary and colourful style which has always been characterising Paskaljevic’ filmography. .jpg)
Among the feature films competing – all of which Italian premieres – there will be the revelatory KYNODONTAS (Dogtooth) by Yorgos Lanthimos, awarded by Paolo Sorrentino at the last Cannes Film Festival as the best film in the Certain regard section, a savage and bitter investigation into the family as institution, told in a grotesque, surreal style. This is a film that once again exemplifies the great vitality of Greek cinema, which in recent years has produced a generation of young filmmakers now making names for themselves in numerous international festivals.
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