Unspooling 19 to 27 January, the 35th edition of the Trieste Film Festival is set to open with Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World [+lire aussi :
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interview : Radu Jude
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fiche film], by master of European cinema, Polish director Agnieszka Holland, who scooped the Special Jury Prize in Venice. Meanwhile, the festival’s closing film - The Zone of Interest [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Jonathan Glazer - bagged the Grand Prize and Fipresci Prize at the most recent Cannes Film Festival.

The feature film competition will offer up 7 titles this year. Georgian director Elene Naveriani is returning with Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry [+lire aussi :
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interview : Elene Naveriani
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interview : Vladimir Perišić
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fiche film], revolving around a group of Croatians and Bosnian refugees cohabiting in Pula in the early ‘90s; the Hungarian director of Romanian origin Katalin Moldovai will also be in on the action with Without Air [+lire aussi :
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interview : Katalin Moldovai
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interview : Tudor Giurgiu et Cecilia S…
fiche film], about the civil uprisings in Sibiu following the death of Ceausescu. Janez Burger, a pioneer of new Slovenian cinema, is likewise competing with a social thriller boasting paranormal overtones entitled Observing [+lire aussi :
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interview : Janez Burger
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Five feature films are set to screen Out of Competition, starting with Cristi Puiu’s new movie MMXX [+lire aussi :
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interview : Cristi Puiu
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fiche film], Una Gunjak’s Excursion [+lire aussi :
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interview : Una Gunjak
fiche film], which scooped a Special Mention in Locarno’s Cineasti del Presente line-up and triumphed in Venice’s Orizzonti section, Gábor Reisz’s Explanation for Everything [+lire aussi :
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interview : Gábor Reisz
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interview : Stephan Komandarev
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Unfolding alongside the festival’s opening and closing movies are two Special Events, namely screenings of Beautiful Beings [+lire aussi :
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For its part, Off the Beaten… Screens, a section dedicated to stylistic solutions and innovative narration, will be presenting the debut film Cherry Juice by Bosnia’s Mersiha Husagic, the road movie Arthur & Diana [+lire aussi :
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Ten titles will grace the Documentary Competition, most of which directed by young, talented women directors, including the recent winner of Amsterdam’s IDFA, Armenian filmmaker Shoghakat Vardanyan with her movie 1489 [+lire aussi :
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interview : Shoghakat Vardanyan
fiche film]. Well worth a mention amongst the documentaries screening Out of Competition are a selection of titles by directors hailing from the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, including Al di là dei lupi by Ennio Guerrato, 50 anni di CLU by Erika Rossi, and Il Cinema Volta by Martin Turk. Equally noteworthy on Trieste’s agenda is Smoke Sauna Sisterhood [+lire aussi :
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The line-up for the Corso Salani Prize will consist of 5 Italian titles yet to be distributed in Italy, ranging from Marco Amenta’s Anna [+lire aussi :
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interview : Ludovica Fales
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Last but not least, attendees will get to enjoy the Wild Roses focus section, revolving around women filmmakers from a Central Eastern European country and dedicated, this year, to female authors of German films, as announced by Cineuropa back in December (read our article).