Le Festival de Bolzano déménage sur le web
par Camillo De Marco
- Le festival prépare sa 34e édition en ligne, avec pour film d’ouverture le titre suisse My Wonderful Wanda de Bettina Oberli
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Under the slogan #imKINOdaCASA, the 34th Bolzano Film Festival Bozen (13 - 18 April) is preparing itself to unspool online on account of the pandemic. The opening slot is entrusted to Bettina Oberli’s Swiss title My Wonderful Wanda [+lire aussi :
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interview : Bettina Oberli
fiche film], a dramedy presented in a world premiere at Tribeca 2020 and revolving around a Polish woman who upsets the balance of a well-to-do family.
Six films will battle it out for the Autonomous Province of Bolzano Award, presided over by a jury composed of long-term Berlinale consultant Claudia Landsberger, German screenwriter and director Sonja Heiss and Italian independent filmmaker Corrado Ravazzini.
Making its way over from Switzerland is Beyto [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Zurich director Gitta Gsell, which won the Audience Award at the Solothurn Film Festival and tells the tale of a student who’s a rising star at a swimming club in Berna and who ends up falling for his trainer. The Bolzano-born director working in Vienna Evi Romen, meanwhile, will present her first feature film Why Not You [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], which has already claimed victories in a variety of festivals. Hailing from Germany, director Leonie Krippendorff (gracing Variety’s list of “10 European talents to watch in 2020”) will bring Cocoon [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] to Bolzano, a film which opened the Generation section of last year’s Berlinale, while Bolzano director Maura Delpero (who triumphed in 2008 by way of her medium-length work Nadea e Sveta) is set to return to the festival with the Italian-Argentine co-production set in Buenos Aires Maternal [+lire aussi :
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interview : Maura Delpero
fiche film]. For his part, Italian director Maurizio Zaccaro will tell the story of Nour [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], a ten-year-old girl who has journeyed across the Mediterranean towards Europe all on her own, and Bolzano director Nancy Camaldo will offer up the German-produced work Windstill.
A jury composed of three experts in the genre field - namely film professor Sven Ilgner, Italian director Michela Occhipinti, and the Viennese director and actress Andrea Schramek - will decide upon the best documentary in competition. Within this category, Luca Lucchesi’s A Black Jesus [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] takes us to a small village in southern Italy where a statue of a black Jesus has been worshipped for centuries; Cecilia Mangini and Paolo Pisanelli sign their names to the medium-length work Due scatole dimenticate, which follows the discovery of photographic negatives taking them back to 1964-65, when North Vietnam was at war with the US; the Austrian-produced movie Glory to the Queen [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Tatia Skhirtladze, set in Tbilisi, Georgia, sees four world draughts champions meeting up again after 25 years; Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter tell the tale of Laika, the stray dog who became the first living creature to be sent into space, by way of the Austrian-German co-production Space Dogs [+lire aussi :
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interview : Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter
fiche film]; Swiss director Ivo Zen explores a village where young people in the 80s and 90s sought refuge in drug addiction in Under Blue Skies [+lire aussi :
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fiche film]; and Portuguese director Nuno Escudeiro, a graduate of Bolzano’s ZeLig School, is scheduled to present The Valley [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], a documentary set on the border between Italy and France amidst migrants fleeing from war.
Two additional, noteworthy line-ups are likewise confirmed for 2021: Made in Südtirol/Alto Adige, which comprises a selection of 6 international films, partly shot in Italy with the support of the IDM fund, and the workshop intitled Final Touch #6: Intense Feedback from Experts, which will take place online, featuring its 4 selected projects.
(Traduit de l'italien)
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