Il Black Movie svela la programmazione della sua 26ma edizione
- Con 114 film, tra lungometraggi e cortometraggi, il festival di Ginevra mette ancora una volta il cinema indipendente sotto i riflettori

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The Black Movie International Independent Film Festival in Geneva (17-26 January) is once again set to bring audiences face to face with the beauty as well as the cruelty of the world, with an enticing selection of the best in independent film productions from all over the world. Enriching this fulsome programme are 17 filmmakers who have been invited along to the gathering as well as an as-yet unseen exhibition at the Fonderie Kugler, called "Photo Kegham of Gaza: Unboxing" and curated by visual artist Kegham Djeghalian Junior. Black Movie will also host the entirety of the currently available productions from From Ground Zero [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], a collection of short films made since October 2023 (the start of the war in Gaza) by Palestinian filmmakers, which is representing Palestine at the Oscars. A round-table with Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi and French producer Laura Nikolov, as well as a conversation with French-Palestinian MEP Rima Hassan, will accompany the screenings.
Furthermore, the festival will welcome Chinese helmer Wang Bing, who will present the two most recent instalments of his documentary trilogy, Youth (Hard Times) [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], and will attend a meeting with the audience. Artistic director Maria Watzlawick stresses that 2025 is meant to be the international year of peace and trust, according to the UN, and that “we can dream… Just like the dreams of those directors who make films bearing witness to the incredible diversity our planet has to offer.”
Nestled in the 11 sections that make up the programme are several co-productions and a clutch of European gems. In the To Be Followed… strand, which invites the audience to sample the latest, singular works by six filmmakers whom the festival has been following closely for several years, we find the co-production Harvest [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Athina Rachel Tsangari
scheda film] by Greece’s Athina Rachel Tsangari, a kind of tragicomic western about modernity that was presented in competition at Venice, and the aforementioned movies by Wang Bing. Cities, a section that homes in on cities going through changes, is playing host to the film L’Homme-Vertige: Tales of a City [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Guadeloupe’s Malaury Eloi Paisley, which powerfully and delicately portrays an almost ghostly Pointe-à-Pitre. Meanwhile, the In Search of Human Rights sidebar, which offers movies with protagonists whose rights are trampled upon, includes Songs of Slow Burning Earth [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Olha Zhurba
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intervista: Agnes Lisa Wegner e Cece M…
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intervista: Bogdan Mureşanu
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intervista: Bálint Szimler
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intervista: Karan Kandhari
scheda film] by India’s Karan Kandhari, an off-the-wall and liberating tale that toys with the codes of black comedy and fantastical film. Lastly, in the Sensitive People section, which gives a voice to men and women who are trying to start anew after enduring trauma or disruption in their lives, audiences will be able to discover Tata [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lina Vdovîi, Radu Ciorniciuc
scheda film] by Romania’s Lina Vdovîi and Radu Ciorniciuc, a remarkably astute examination of transgenerational trauma.
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