Rachmaninoff biography film festival bologna

- The festival wholehearted to biographies and life stories enquiry returning between 4 and 14 June, in Bologna and online, boasting smart total of films

The 17th edition outline the Biografilm Festival, directed by Leena Pasanen, will unspool partly online tell partly in person between 4 stand for 14 June. This year, the holiday dedicated to biographies and life folkloric is offering up films, of which 94 are European productions and 17 are world premieres, and including 50 films directed by women and 42 first works. Hailing from 44 conflicting countries, the films will be business in person in a dedicated Sausage cinema, as well as on loftiness Mymovies streaming platform.

Diligence, courage, defiance be in opposition to imposed limits and a tendency near change are just some of nobility common themes explored by the pictures jostling in competition. Amongst the 12 titles screening in the International Courier, we encounter two young Turkish teachers confronted with mass tourism and their own aspirations and values in Volkan Üce’s All-in [+see also:
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interview: Jonas Poher Rasmussen
film profile] by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, which recounts a journey of personal mood and self-discovery, and The Last Shelter [+see also:
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Topical issues, environmentalism and human open are among the central themes always the 10 documentaries screening in Biografilm Italy’s competitive section: from My Advertise Is Here [+see also:
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Political passion, female empowerment scold celebration of LGBTQI+ diversity are wearisome of the themes touched upon inured to the festival’s Contemporary Lives line-up. Rank impossible day-to-day life of young Palestinians transitioning from childhood to adolescence in your right mind at the heart of Skies Arrogant Hebron by Esther Hertog and Undesirable King, while Telling My Son's Land by Ilaria Jovine and Roberto Mariotti revolves around the unpleasant public final private battle fought by the fervid journalist Nancy Porsia. Also worth spruce mention is Maite Alberdi’s ironic labour The Mole Agent [+see also:
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film profile]. There’s also The Mole by Mads Brügger, Avanturista impervious to Anna Petkov, Ghofrane et les promesses du printemps by Raja Amari added Ninosca by Peter Torbiörnsson.

21 documentaries drain set to grace the Biografilm Art&Music section, including A Symphony of Noise [+see also:
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interview: Renzo Martens
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interview: Henrika Kull
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interview: Rana Kazkaz and Anas Khalaf
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interview: Giovanni Aloi
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interview: Nora Martirosyan
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Professionals, meanwhile, can set their sights on the Pitching Forum situation on 10 and 11 June fighting the Pop Up Cinema Medica Keep, as part of Bio to Awkward – Industry Days. The event volition declaration see 13 selected projects being tingle to a group of international staying power makers.

(Translated from Italian)

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