The magic of Hungarian cinema at the Roma Film Fest
New European and, this year in particular, Hungarian filmmakers will be featured at the 10th edition of the Roma Film Festival, held from November 24 – December 1 in the capital’s Nuovo Olimpia cinema. The Comparing Cinemas Section, organized in collaboration with Filmuniò, the Hungarian Film Institute, features works by young directors who surprise with their their style and perspective on today’s world. Death Rode Out of Persia (o.t. A halal kilovagolt perzsiabol) by Horvat Putyl; Eastern Sugar (o.t. Szezon ) by Ferenc Török; Tamara by Szabolcs Hajdu; Joseph and his Brothers (o.t. József és testvérei) by András Jeles; and Dealer by Benedek Fliegauf are just some of the titles of the program’s feature films.
On its 10th anniversary, the festival offers a rich program through its various sections. The official, thematic and non-competitive section (this year’s entitled “The Sign and the Times”) is made up of an international panorama of new, quality films: from the debut film of young, stateless director Fred Kelemen, Krisana/Fallen; to the “Portuguese trio,” comprised of short apologues by Teresa Garcia, Joao Botelho, Rita Azevedo Gomez; to the new, grim parable by Iranian Amir Naderi, Sound Barrier; to the discovery of another isolated, stateless director such as Joseph Morder with his El cantor; to Garua, the second feature film by promising Argentine director, Gustavo Corrado, and co-produced by Italian Esperia Film, an anomalous and courageous film, such as Hungarian Roland Vranik’s Black Brush or the “erotic-theatrical documentary” featuring an adolescent cast by Catalan Roger Bernat, Todo es perfecte.
The Preview Section includes soon-to-be released and anticipated films from the 2006 slate in collaboration with distributors such as BIM, Fox, DNC and AB Film. Other sections include a survey of the independent Italian cinema of Paolo Brunatto, with seven never before released portraits entitled The Underground Filmmakers of Italian Cinema: from Straub-Huillet to Bondì, from Giuseppe Gaudino to Roberta Torre, from Rezza and Mastrella to Stefanelli, to Zarantonelli. The Homage Section this year turns its gaze to Philippe Garrel, with a triptych of inedited films, to the genius creativity of Kim Ki Duk. The Remembrance and Restoration Section looks at filmmakers such as Fellini, Cocteau, Bergman, De Seta, Welles and includes two restored films from the Cineteca Nazionale: Familiare (o.t. Cronaca Familiare) by Valerio Zurlini and Immigrants (o.t. Emigrantes) actor/director Aldo Fabrizi’s film on the history of Italian immigration. This year’s Retrospective Section was organized in collaboration with the Cineteca Nazionale and is dedicated to one of the great masters in the history of Italian cinema: Ettore Scola.
(Translated from Italian)
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