New dates and a brand new setting are in the offing for the Milan Film Festival, which will be held from 4-10 October at The Space Cinema Odeon, with Gabriele Salvatores heading up artistic direction for the second year running, flanked by Alessandro Beretta. The twenty-fourth edition of the event will also be launching its new Industry section, which is scheduled to run from Saturday 5-Tuesday 8 October.

The opening of this year’s Festival has been entrusted to the new stoner comedy by Harmony Korine, The Beach Bum [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], starring Matthew McConaughey, and two competitive sections are likewise in the line-up, namely the International Feature Film Competition, which comprises 7 first and second works set to be screened in Italian premieres, and the International Short Film Competition, comprising 41 shorts, all helmed by directors under 40 years of age and hailing from more than 30 different countries.

“Change” is the theme uniting all of the works selected within the International Feature Film Competition; first and foremost in the sense of growth, a “coming of age” - that is, the transition to adulthood - but also as regards a shift in mentality or social status, such as that observed in the American work Swallow [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (US/France) by Carlo Mirabella-Davis. For its part, Koko-di Koko-da [+lire aussi :
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interview : Johannes Nyholm
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interview : Johannes Nyholm
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interview : Michal Hogenauer
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fiche film], by Hungary’s György Mór Kárpáti, sees the torments of youth come face to face with the cruelty of 1849’s Hungarian Revolution. In O Fim do Mundo [+lire aussi :
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interview : Basil Da Cunha
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Looking towards the national cinema landscape, “Incontri italiani/Italian Encounters”, will showcase the richness and vivacity of independent Italian film, screening works such as Fulci For Fake [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Beniamino Barrese in the presence of their directors. Other sections featuring in the Festival programme are “The Outsiders”, offering up titles by now well-known masters, including The Souvenir [+lire aussi :
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interview : João Nicolau
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fiche film] by Takashi Miike; “My Screen”, which will see social-media celebrities and artists come together to reveal their favourite films; “Focus Animation”, offering a sneak peek of new trends in international animation; “Immigration Day”, an event which has been organised in collaboration with Naga for a number of years now, with this year’s edition centring on Ai Weiwei’s new documentary The Rest [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], and; last but not least, “Special Events”, where a number of exclusive premieres are set to be held, along the lines of Nyman’s Earthquakes – “work in progress” ungraded and with temporary sound mix by the composer and musician Michael Nyman.