On the opening night the LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2016 a Gianni Amelio, and the latest film by Egyptian director Yousry Nasrallahad
Will the Egyptian director Yousry Nasrallahad usher,the festival with
the Italian premiere of the film Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces (Al Ma 'wal Khodra wal Wajh El Hassan). Three years after the presentation to MedFestival of After the Battle, the author, active protagonist of the Arab Spring, He will return to Rome to meet with the public and critics, and to present his latest work, a wild melodrama behind
glittering patina, It chronicles the daily problems in a complex country like Egypt.
The evening will open with the transfer to Gianni Amelio the Lifetime Achievement Award 2016. Amelio, director and witness the passions and stories of women and men, tirelessly questioning the forms of cinema will be honored with a screening – Wednesday 9 November – de The first man. On the same evening it will be awarded today Koine Prize 2016 a SaMiFo – Health Forced Migrants – the first medical reception center, a collaboration between the Centre and Astalli Asl Roma, intended to protect the right to health and taking care of victims of torture.
This year confirms the collaboration between MedFilm Festival and the office of the Italian Representative of the European Parliament with LUX FILM
DAYS ROME and the screening of two films of the three finalists Lux prize 2016: As soon as I open my eyes Dustin and di Bouzid Toni Erdmann Maren Ade. This year on the occasion of the celebrations for the 10th anniversary will be extended the public of the LUX Film Days, including also the city of Salerno. In fact there is a direct streaming with the Festival Shadow Line, to be held in the city of Salerno, for the presentation of the film in contemporary Tunisian Leyla Bouzid.
To pick up the threads that unite peoples and cultures, rather than raise walls that separate them, the festival will host this spirit two special showcases dedicated to the Guests of Honor Countries: l’Iran e la Tunisia.
But we come to the films in competition that features and shorts are 39. For the Official Competition Eros and Psyche Award, edited by Giulio Casadei, nine films which may be all or nearly included in the vast and varied world of genre cinema: melodrama (Brooks, Meadows and Lovely
Faces di Yousry Nasrallah, l’iraniano Inversion di Behnam Behzadi, Tunisian Hedi di Mohamed Ben Attia and The Italian Accabadora Enrico Pau) the French-Tunisian gangster-movie Chouf Karim Dridi, dal prison-movie giordano Blessed Benefit di Mahmoud Al Massad, the horror fantasy Algerian Kindil Damien
Ounouri, by French road movie Jours de France Jérôme Reybaud the meta-Algerian film The Trial Garden Dania Reymond. Beyond the inevitable differences, what emerges in every single movie is the willingness to put man at the center, with all its load of fragility, hopes, want. An ode to everything that cinema capable, says Aldo Spiniello about Hedi, the "hurt and rescue at the same time".
The International Documentary Competition Open Eyes Award, always curated by Gianfranco Pannone, shows ten films united by the theme of memory, found among villages, city, province, different nations, linked by the desire to put it back into play in this, in a world subject to the continuous pressure of geopolitical conflicts. Representing Italy, new film Mario Brenta Karine de Villers, Delta Park, set in a hotel, in which the time between slow is the amount of the loss of the sense of whether the guests, young refugees waiting for a destination.
The official selection of the International Short Film Competition Methexis Award and Cervantes Prize, edited by Alessandro Zoppo, they are part of 20 courts that move along the expressive spectrum of contemporary cinema, from fiction to documentary, from animation to experimental. genres, looks and identities blend and hybridize. At the center of these jobs, habit / obsession of the film and the filmable, our relationship with images, wild eye that tries in every way to capture life.
Then there 's the large space dedicated to Italian cinema showcase with Pearls, Our focus on independent cinema and its young authors. Opens the section on stateless cinema and physical Amir Naderi, at the height of his abstraction with Monte.
Finally, among the Special events. MedFilm it incontra International Mediterranean Film Festival of Tetouan the con anteprima italiana di Small Pleasures, New Moroccan filmmaker Mohamed Chrif Tribak, won the Audience Award in Tetouan.
The symbol of this year's festival is a mural, unearthed in the maze of streets of Tunis. A design that in simplicity and delicate irony tract expresses its evocative power. A drawing Project Zoo, stage name of Bilal Berreni, French-Algerian artist who died in Detroit in 2013 just 23 years.
Countless government entities and embassies that sponsor and support this 22nd edition together with leading national newspapers including The Republic.