The Saturnia Film Festival 2022 is growing with the new section dedicated to Italian feature films and a focus on artist films between Sorano, Grosseto and Venice, guests Ricky Tognazzi, in homage to his father Ugo on the centenary of his birth, and Francesco Montanari.
The Saturnia Film Festival 2022, the itinerant event dedicated to short films set in the heart of the Tuscan Maremma, grows and opens up to feature films and video art. Scheduled from 28 to 31 July 2022 in widespread form in four villages of the Tuscan Maremma, the initiative chaired by Antonella Santarelli with the artistic direction of director Alessandro Grande celebrates its 5th edition and inaugurates a section of Italian auteur feature films in tribute to the three most significant first and second works produced in the last year and to their protagonists, whose guests and contents will be revealed shortly. Not only that, the Art Short section was born this year: 5 video works in competition, selected by Mas Tassini Studio and signed by the protagonists of the contemporary art scene, which will be presented at the festival and exhibited in parallel at the Le Clarisse cultural center in Grosseto. , the Orsini Fortress in Sorano (GR) and the San Vidal gallery in Venice (info: www.saturniafilmfestival.it).
The screenings will be hosted in symbolic places of the territory: Thursday 28 July in Piazza Magenta in Manciano, to continue on Friday 29 at the Orsini Fortress in Sorano and end on Saturday 30 in Piazza del Castello in Montemerano. Award ceremony, as usual, on Sunday 31st in the spaces of the Terme di Saturnia Natural Destination thermal park. Among the guests the actor, screenwriter, director and producer Ricky Tognazzi, who will participate in the initiative to remember his father Ugo, the iconic face of Italian comedy, on the 100th anniversary of his birth. The actor was also present Francesco Montanariknown to the general public for the role of the “Lebanese” in “Romanzo Criminale – La serie”, the editor Jacopo Quadri, with a thirty-year artistic partnership with the director Mario Martone, the film critic Augusto Sainati and the documentary maker Francesco Del Big.
To date, more than 2000 films have received the competition for short films, the traditional fulcrum of the event. Twenty works selected this year between in and out of competition, with nine shorts entered in the competitive section in the three categories of animation, fiction and documentary. Among the titles: “Footsteps on the wind” by Maya Sanbar, Faga Melo and Gustavo Leal, the story of two young refugees with the original soundtrack by Sting; “Migrants”, 3d animation signed by Zoé Devise, Lucas Lermytte, Hugo Caby, Aubin Kubiak and Antoine Dupriez that photographs the difficult situation of polar bears due to climate change; the dystopian fable “Stone Heart” by Humberto Rodrigues, from Brazil; “Roman Night”, by Valerio Ferrara, this year’s candidate for the David di Donatello; “Big” by Daniele Pini, awarded at the Rome Film Fest; “Destinata Coniugi Lo Giglio” by Nicola Prosatore with Lello Arena, winner of the 2022 Silver Ribbons; “Free Fall” by Emmanuel Tenenbaum, a reinterpretation of the World Trade Center attack awarded in Canada and the United States; “Don VS Lightning” by director duo Big Red Button; “Lost Kings” by American filmmaker Brian Lawes: a boy breaks into a house in search of food, but when the owners return he will be stuck inside with them.
Within the Art Short section works by authors of the caliber of Nana Dix, nephew of the famous German painter Otto Dix, who will bring his “The Secret Garden” to Saturnia, inspired by the poem “Il Corvo” by Edgar Allan Poe with music by Tobias Laemmert; Roz Delacour with “Univers to Atom”, an investigation along the frontiers of perception, between the unknown and the unknowable; the photographers Pirre-Jérôme Jehel and Fabrice Laroche with “The Imagined Archives”, a visual exploration that recalls the principles underlying photography itself – the positive and the negative, the creation of the image, the light -; the Swiss painter and visual artist Bernard Garo who, together with the director and screenwriter Marc Décosterd, will present “Crevasses”, a reflection on the effects of global warming on ice and its inevitable consequences; Stéfanie Renoma with “The Banquet, an Opera”, an ironic critique of the consumer society, characterized by the glamorous touch that has always characterized the French artist and designer.
The awards will be awarded by a jury of professionals in the cinema sector, chaired by the director of distribution of Medusa Film Paolo Orlando and composed of Mario Mazzetti (Vivilcinema), Manuela Rima (Rai Cinema) and Mirella Cheeseman (Wildside). The Women in Cinema award, reserved for works directed by female directors and assigned by the Mujeres nel Cinema group, the audience award and from this edition the student jury award of the Accademia Cinema Toscana have been confirmed. In addition, the short films in competition will be streamed for a single appointment on the Mymovies platform of the La Compagnia cinema in Florence, in collaboration with the Fondazione Sistema Toscana.
Source: opentapes.org
