14/02/2023 - The music-centric film festival, unspooling in Turin from 24 February to 2 March, will open with a tribute to the dissident Russian director, exactly one year on from the start of the war in Ukraine

The nineth edition of the Seeyousound International Music Film Festival - the first event in Italy to be entirely dedicated to music-centric film, this year unfolding in Turin between 24 February and 2 March - will open with the Italian premiere of Tchaikovsky’s Wife [+see also:
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79 fiction feature films and documentaries, short films and music videos, from among the best recently produced works worldwide, accompanied by concerts, soundtracks and DJ sets held in 7 different locations in the city, all grace the 2023 programme of the festival directed by Carlo Griseri, with 5 titles screening in first ever premieres, 2 in European premieres and 26 in Italian premieres.

The Long Play Feature competitive section will offer up 5 fiction feature films, including Kurdwin Ayub’s Austrian work Sonne [+see also:
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film profile]. The Long Play Doc line-up, dedicated to cinéma du réel, will showcase another five titles, including Germany’s Can and Me by Michael P. Aust and Tessa Knapp, Miúcha - The Voice of Bossa Nova [+see also:
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There’ll also be space for a couple of exhibitions: Into the Groove, gathering together a variety of genres and trends in the form of 13 films (9 feature films and 4 shorts), including Infernòt. Viaggio nella musica folk by Elia Romanelli, charting the birth of Italian folk music, French film Not My Type [+see also:
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Last but not least, the fourth workshop of the RED – Re-Educating Digitisation Programme is set to unspool in parallel with the festival. Organised within the framework of the MFFN - Music Film Festival Network, made up of 12 European, music-centric festivals, the workshop will revolve around the creation of an audience survey model to help cultural players expand their audiences. The project is funded by Erasmus+ and coordinated by Soundtrack Cologne.

(Translated from Italian)