Venice: Horizons features healthy dose of European films
Twenty-four features (of which six are documentaries) and 27 medium- to short-length films , which comprise fiction, documentaries, animated and experimental films from all over the world, make up the selection for the Horizons section of the 68th Venice Film Festival (August 31-September 10).
Opening with Cut by Iranian director Amir Naderi, the festival’s section dedicated to new expression emerging in contemporary film-making includes a good portion of European work - among the feature-length films are Italo-Swiss Amore carne by Pippo Delbono (photo); French films L'Oiseau by Yves Caumon, Le Petit Poucet by Marina de Van and documentary Would You Have Sex with an Arab? by Yolande Zauberman; the German documentaries Die Herde des Herrn by Romuald Karmakar and Whores’ Glory by Michael Glawogger (produced by Austria); British films Two Years at Sea by Ben Rivers and Shock Head Soul by Simon Pummel (produced in co-operation with the Netherlands). In addition, there is Belgian film L’Envahisseur by Nicolas Provost, Portuguese film Cisne (Swan) by Teresa Villaverde, and Brazilian/Spanish/German production Girimunho (Swirl) by Helvécio Marins Jr and Clarissa Campolina.
The trends highlighted will range from the convergence between visual arts and cinema to the subversion of editing, as well as a new relationship with reality, turning historical references into film, reinterpreting genres, reinventing the relationship between cinema and literature and the documentary as a view into internal universes.
Orizzonti mediometraggi e cortometraggi highlights a number of experimental films - the Italian work Piattaforma Luna by Yuri Ancarani, In attesa dell'avvento by Felice D'Agostino and Arturo Lavorato, Movimenti di un tempo impossibile by Flatform; German Meteor by Christoph Girardet, Norwegian Late and Deep by Devin Horan, British Louyre - This Our Still Life by Andrew Kotting and Austrian Conference by Norbert Pfaffenbichler.
Italian documentary-maker Pietro Marcello, author of the award-winning La bocca del lupo (winner of the Torino Film Festival 2009), will also show Il silenzio di Pelesjan during Horizons.
(Translated from Italian)
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