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Trieste Film Festival 2015, 16-22 January |
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14 January 2015 |
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Italy΄s celebration of Central and Eastern European cinema, Trieste Film Festival, kicks off this Friday with the film Two Women by Vera Glagoleva, a Russian/Latvia n/French production, starring Ralph Fienes. Among the highlights of the twenty sixth edition will be Krzysztof Zanussi΄s masterclass on January the 18th. The acclaimed Polish filmmaker will also be presenting his latest film, the psychological drama Foreign Body.
Trietse Film Festival 2015 is again holding three international competitions, the Feature Film Competition (feature films from Central and Eastern Europe produced in the last two years competing for the Trieste Award), the Documentary Competition (documentaries produced in Italy and Central Eastern Europe) and the Short Film one (short feature films produced in Central and Eastern Europe). What΄s different from the previous editions is that the awards for these three competition sections will be given by the audience.
Numerous Balkan films and co-productions are programmed for screening, in the various sections and sidebar events of the festival.
Presentation of the 26th edition
International Feature Film Competition includes 6 succesful productions from the Balkans:
International Documentary Competition is also screening 6 Balkan documentaries:
8 Balkan shorts feature in the International Short Feature Films Competition:
The Execution by Petra Szőcs, Hungary/Romania, 2014, 14’
Chain by Eicke Bettinga, France/Germany/Bulgaria, 2014, 22’
A Fine Day for Bananafish by Stefan Malešević, Serbia, 2014, 26’
Have Sweet Dreams by Ciprian Suhar, Romania, 2014, 20’
The Restitution by Nicola Zambelli & Viron Roboci, Italy/Croatia, 2013, 25’
Maria’s Episode by Sanja Živković, Serbia, 2014, 25’
The Chicken by Una Gunjak, Germany/Croatia, 2014, 15’
It Can Pass Through the Wall by Radu Jude, Romania, 2014, 17’
The other much-anticipated event of the twenty sixth edition will be the three-day WHEN EAST MEETS WEST ( WEMW) co-production forum. Out of the 22 selected projects, 5 come from the Balkans (read the related article).
The Forest by Sinisa Dragin
Special screening of David Lean΄s Doctor Zhivago (celebrating its 50 years) and Věra Chytilová΄s legendary Daisies as a tribute to the Czech director who passed away during 2014. Other special screenings, include the omnibus Bridges of Sarajevo, the documentary What About Mojca? by Urša Menart (Slovenia, 2014) and Danis Tanovic΄s latest Tigers (India/France/UK, 2014).
Živan Makes a Punk Festival by Ognjen Glavonić will be screened -among other non Balkan films- at Trieste FF Arthouse, a showcase dedicated to contaminations between cinema and contemporary art, with a focus also on music documentaries, while Love & Engineering by Tonislav Hristov (Finland/Germany/Bulgaria, 2014) and Sofia’s Last Ambulance by Ilian Metev (Germany/Bulgaria/Croatia, 2012), both documentaries, will be screened among other films at the Sidebar Events section.
Last, the 2014 Italian/Slovenian/British/Dutch co-production The Perfect Circle by Claudia Tosi, a documentary competing for the Corso Salani Prize and a check of €2,000 at the Italian Screenings section, where independent Italian feature fiction and documentary films are seeking international distribution. Two last films to mention, are two shorts: The Dance is Over, Maria by Natko Stipaničev (Croatia, 2013, 10’) and Thousand by Danijel Žeželj, (Croatia, 2014, 6’), included on the Animation Programme.
Source: Trieste FF official site
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