Two Italians and many Europeans in competition with Alice in the City
Immigration, homosexuality and the relationship between fathers and sons: these are the themes carrying this year’s tenth edition of Alice in the City, the autonomous section running in parallel of the Rome Film Festival (8-17 November 2013) dedicated to the young. The number of films in competition is twelve (two more still need to be announced), all of which will be in their international premiere, with fourteen countries represented in the official selection.
For the first time, two Italian films will compete: Se chiudo gli occhi non sono più qui by Vittorio Moroni, with Giorgio Colangeli and Beppe Fiorello, and Fabio Mollo’s feature film debut Il Sud è niente (photo), with Vinicio Marchioni and Valentina Lodovini. The first film tells the story of Kiko, a sixteen-year-old originally from the Philippines who must come to grips with difficulties tied to integration. The second, a French Italian coproduction, also touches on the theme of immigration: Grazia lives in Reggio Calabria and is seeking out the truth surrounding her brother, who emigrated to Germany years before and is now considered dead.
France is present in competition with three films: Juliette [+see also:
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A further Italian film will be running out of competition, Il mondo fino in fondo by Alessandro Lunardelli, together with French Belle & Sebastien by Nicolas Vanier and documentary School of Babel by Julie Bertucelli, filmed in a multi-ethnic high school in Paris. Animation film My Mommy is in America and she met Buffalo Bill, directed by French Marc Boréal and Thibaut Chatel has been inserted among the special events, as was British Mexican Who is Dayani Crystal? Produced, directed and played by Gael Garcia Bernal. Among the non-European films is Futbolin [+see also:
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A novelty this year will be the virtual online movie theatre, which will show in competition films online (following the model of the Horizons section at the Venice Film Festival) on the Mymovies website. A collaboration with the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (cinema experimental centre) will be the opportunity to host Japanese director and screenwriter Hirokazu Kore-Eda and an open casting will seek to select actors for Giuseppe Piccioni’s next film in collaboration with the Libreria del Cinema (cinema library).
(Translated from Italian)
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