Italy and France among fiction and non-fiction
With two more surprise films to be revealed, the Horizons section of the 65th Venice International Film Festival is offering a line-up of 18 films and seven out of competition events.
The sidebar will open with Marco Pontecorvo’s debut film Pa-ra-da, shot in Romania and starring French actor Jalil Lespert, while the section will close, for the second year in a row, with the latest undertaking by Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz, the seven-hour epic Melancholia.
Europe is represented by another three feature films: Il primo giorno d’inverno by debut filmmaker Mirko Locatelli; the second film by France’s Arnaud Des Pallieres, Parc, starring Sergi Lopez and Jean-Marc Barr; and Philippe Grandrieux’s Un lac.
From France come three documentaries as well: L’Exil et le royaume by Andrei Schtakleff and Jonathan Le Fourn, Puisque nous sommes nés by Jean-Pierre Duret and Andréa Santana (a French/Brazilian co-production) and Z32, another co-production by Israeli director Avi Mograbi.
Events include two films on the ThyssenKrupp tragedy, as part of the “cinema verite” cycle: Mimmo Calopresti’s La fabbrica dei tedeschi and ThyssenKrupp Blues by Pietro Balla and Monica Repetto).
Other titles include Verso Est by Laura Angiulli, a traditional archive footage film by Antonello Sarno (celebrating the 40th anniversary of Venezia ’68 ), and journalist Matt Tyrnauer’s tribute to one of the symbols of Italian haute couture, Valentino: The Last Emperor.
(Translated from Italian)
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