Resounding success for the 35th edition of the festival dedicated to Alberto Farassino that appointment at Cinema Farnese in Rome from 8 to 12 June with the award-winning films Sagre balere by Alessandro Stevanon and Hidden photos by Davide Grotta
It ended on Sunday 28 May with the awards ceremony and the big concert of Stefano Bollani, the edition number 35 the Bellaria Film Festival, historic appointment with the cinema of reality which this year has recorded a resounding success with the public and which will bring the winning films of both this year and previous years to Rome from 8 to 11 June at the Cinema Farnese.
The jury that awarded the awards was chaired by the author and director Gianfranco Pannone assisted by the director Natalie Cristiani winner in 2016 of the Bellaria Casa Rossa Art Doc, by the director of the Festival dei Popoli Alberto Lastrucci, by the musician and visual artist Marco Migani and by the director Enza Negroni, president of D.E-R Documentaristi Emilia Romagna.
To win the prestigious Italia Doc Competition, showcase of the best Italian documentary production, has been Dance festivals by Alessandro Stevanon, presented at the festival as an Italian premiere with the following motivation: A window onto a marginal piece of Italy, or more properly marginalized by the so-called “high culture”. Omar Codazzi, the lead singer, he is a pure? Of course he is much loved by his audience. And here the author tries to give us back the man thanks to an intelligent complicity. The portrait of an Italy in danger of extinction also emerges, but not too much. An Italy that makes you think from both a social and anthropological point of view.
In the same competition the Mention Gianni Volpi, named after one of the historical fathers of the BFF, it went to the film See you in Texas by Vito Palmieri the following reasons: It's a research film, of discovery, in which the young couple is the protagonist, with his daily life, he reveals to us an ancient world to which he has chosen to belong with passion. A world made of hard work and dreams, where the past and our rural origins come back to life forcefully after years of consumer culture. The work opens a further window on the ongoing debate between the cinema of reality, fiction cinema and its contaminations.
To win the Casa Rossa Competition, reserved for documentaries on the world of art, it was the film Hidden photos by Davide Grotta with the following motivation: Hidden Photos reveals an authentic and terrifying hidden part of Cambodian history: that of Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge. The film presents itself with a rigor and simplicity that also takes into consideration the spectator's point of view. The two witnesses give us back, thanks to the author's attentive gaze and the construction of the story, a generational gap that does not belong only to Cambodia: the man from the past who unscrupulously turns history into a business and the young man who tries to make sense of the ancient history of his country.
The list of winners is completed by Tomba del diver by Yan Cheng and Federico Francioni who wins the Special Mention dedicated to the memory of Paolo Rosa, the following reasons: Through the pleasantly unusual combination of typical and evocative situations, the film offers a poetic and reasoned survey of one of the most famous tourist locations in our country.
It was a special edition, with many events such as the tribute to the film critic Alberto Farassino which saw the presentation of the special re-edition, CUE Press Press, of one of its main titles: Neorealism. Italian cinema 1945-1949; or the evening dedicated to Ustica with the presentation of the documentary film Ustica. The French missile followed by the cross-media event in which Colapesce's sounds met the images of Vittorio De Seta; or even the premiere of Listen! Romagna Relax by the Menoventi company.
Not only, the participation of authors from all over Italy, arrived in Bellaria to present their works of cinema of reality, made the event even more of a point of reference for the entire documentary world.
But let's move on to the program scheduled for the next few days at the Cinema Farnese
Rome that ibegins on June 8th with the filming of the winning films all 19.00 Playback projection. The Malien case by Roberto Giglio presented in the Casa Rossa Art Doc competition, following 21.00 from the winning film in 2016 Nicola Costantino La Artefacta by the Argentine Natatlie Cristiani.
But let's move on to the program scheduled for the next few days at the Cinema Farnese
Rome that ibegins on June 8th with the filming of the winning films all 19.00 Playback projection. The Malien case by Roberto Giglio presented in the Casa Rossa Art Doc competition, following 21.00 from the winning film in 2016 Nicola Costantino La Artefacta by the Argentine Natatlie Cristiani.The day 9 It's time at 7pm for Tomb of the Diver by Yan Cheng and Federico Francioni, Mention Paola Rosa Casa Rossa Art Doc, followed by hours 21.00 of the winner Hidden photos by Davide Grotta on Cambodia of the horrors of the Kmer Rouge but also of the macabre exploitation of photos from that tragic era. The evening ends with the doc Sopra il Fiume by Vanina Lappa.
Saturday 10 we start at 19.00 with the film See You in Texas which received the Gianni Volpe Italia Doc Mention, following 21.00 from the winning film Sagre Balere by Alessandro Venanon, a road movie about Omar who has become a famous singer who gives himself to the public at village festivals and dance halls, the other face of the Italy of the Triveneto and Lombardy far from the Northern League envy.
The evening ends with Showbiz by Luca Ferrari on the second-class worldliness of the Grande Bellezza with the Jep Gambardellas of the suburb.
Finally, the resumption of the Bellaria Film Festival in Rome ends on Sunday with two documentaries on two forgotten massacres: the first on the Moby Prince tragedy of 1991 entitled Centoquaranta. The forgotten massacre of Manfredi Lucibello, and the second on Ustica. The French Missile by Emmanuel Ostian.