Il BRIFF svela la sua seconda edizione
- Il Brussels International Film Festival annuncia la sua programmazione per una seconda edizione molto europea
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For its second iteration, the fresh-faced Brussels International Film Festival will offer a selection of films hailing from the four corners of the Earth – and, in particular, from Europe – that have been unveiled at the biggest festivals over the course of the last year. The opening film of BRIFF 2019 will be It Must Be Heaven [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Elia Suleiman
scheda film] by Elia Suleiman, fresh from its Cannes screening.
The festival will take place under the patronage of several prestigious guests, such as Belgium’s Bouli Lanners and Emilie Dequenne; French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius, whose next film, The Lost Prince [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], is expected to arrive in early 2020; and cult Italian-based US helmer Abel Ferrara, who will present his latest film, Tommaso [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Abel Ferrara
scheda film], which was shown as a Special Screening last month on the Croisette, among others.
Among the nine titles in the International Competition, we find seven European movies, including the opening film, as well as Zombi Child [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Bertrand Bonello
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intervista: Labina Mitevska
intervista: Teona Strugar Mitevska
scheda film] by Teona Strugar Mitevska, Ray & Liz [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Richard Billingham
scheda film] by Richard Billingham, unveiled at Locarno and festooned with awards ever since, the Irish documentary Shooting the Mafia [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Kim Longinotto, and the co-productions The Orphanage [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Shahrbanoo Sadat
scheda film] by Afghanistan’s Shahrbanoo Sadat and Unremember [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Flavia Castro. The selection is rounded off by So Long, My Son by China’s Wang Xiaoshuai and Ghost Town Anthology by Canada’s Denis Côté.
The festival is devoting a whole competitive section to European film, its Director’s Week, supervised by the filmmakers from the ARRF (Association of Male and Female Film Directors). Eight movies are on the menu: the French title Sophia Antipolis [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Virgil Vernier
scheda film] by Virgil Vernier (and incidentally, tribute will be paid to the French filmmaker, as the gathering will programme two of his previous films, Mercuriales [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] and Andorre), Light as Feathers [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Rosanne Pel
scheda film] by Rosanne Pel (Netherlands), Animus Animalis (A Story about People, Animals and Things) [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Aistė Žegulytė
scheda film] by Aiste Zegulyte (Lithuania), Aren’t You Happy? [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Susanne Heinrich (Germany), The Last to See Them [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Sara Summa (Germany), All About Yves [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Benoît Forgeard
scheda film] by Benoit Forgeard (France), Where There Is Shade [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Nathan Nicholovitch (France) and Koko-Di Koko-Da [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Johannes Nyholm
scheda film] by Johannes Nyholm (Switzerland/Denmark).
Lastly, it is worth noting that the festival is also organising a National Competition, which will boast Belgian productions (Cavale by Virginie Gourmel, Century of Smoke [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Nicolas Graux and Jeunesse sauvage [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Frédéric Carpentier) and co-productions (Good Favour [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Rebecca Daly, Oleg [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Juris Kursietis
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intervista: Sacha Polak
scheda film] by Sacha Polak) as well as a Panorama that will enable audiences to (re)discover the best Belgian flicks of the past year. The festival unspools from 20-29 June – be there or be square.
(Tradotto dal francese)
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