Multi-culturalism thrives in European cinema at Viareggio
Grbavica [+see also:
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The jury, headed by German director Margarethe von Trotta, will judge 11 films, seven of which were disclosed by festival director Felice Laudadio: Nachbeben by Stina Werenfels (Switzerland), Out of Sight by Daniel Syrkin (Israel); Mother of Mine by Klaus Härö (Finland), The Judge (Drommeren) by Gert Fredholm (Denmark), Fragile by Laurent Nègre (French Switzerland), Slumming by Michael Glawogger (Austria/Germany) and Something Like Happiness [+see also:
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With a budget that has been cut down by a third this year (to just €370,000), and presided over by Luciana Castellina (former president of the Cultural Commission of the European Parliament and honorary president of Cineuropa.org), the festival, with the collaboration of the University of Pisa and Arsenale Center for Film Culture, will organise a sidebar event from April 19-21 in Pisa and Viareggio, a series of films screenings on multiculturalism in European cinema, which will include a discussion in Viareggio among the invited directors on the morning of April 20. The selected films are En garde by Ayse Polat, a Turkish director who has been living in Germany since the age of eight; Lettere al vento by Edmond Budina, the former vice director of the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Tirana who today lives and works in Italy; 17, rue bleue by French/Algerian director Chad Chenouga; and a short by Hedy Krissane, a Senegalese filmmaker living in Italy, entitled Colpevole fino a prova contraria.
(Translated from Italian)
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