Poetry & cinema at Sulmona
Searching cinema and poetry. These are the themes of the 21st edition of the Sulmonacinema Film Festival, taking place from today until Saturday November 8 in Abruzzo city where the Latin poet, Ovid, was born. Once again this year the festival is featuring two competitions, one of feature length films and one for very short films, no longer than 5 minutes. The jury is made up of 10 film university students and is led by Maya Sansa. It will assign 4 Silver Ovid awards for Best Film, Director, Actor and Actress.
These are the feature length films in competition: Perduto amor by Franco Battiato, Fighting Fish by Daniele di Biasio and Andrea D’Ambrosio, Passato prossimo by Maria Sole Tognazzi, Piovono mucche by Luca Vendruscolo, Fame chimica by Paolo Vari and Antonio Boccola, Mundo civilizado by Luca Guadagnino, The ways to a void by Theo Eshetu, Guerra by Pippo Del Bono and My Brother-in-law [+see also:
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film profile] by Alessandro Piva. Many of the authors will be in Sulmona, together with Ciprì & Maresco who will be presented their work on the jazz musician Miles Davis. And in the meantime, Tonino De Bernardi will be shooting part of his new film, Latitudini, in the city.
The relationship between poetry and cinema is once again in the spotlight this year, with three tributes at the festival: one to Carmelo Bene, another to the Welsh poet and writer who also wrote radio plays and cinema scripts, Dylan Thomas, fifty years after his death, and one to Godfrey Reggio with the Qatsi trilogy.
(Translated from Italian)
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