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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\u00a0Ricky Tognazzi<\/strong>, 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\u00a0Francesco Montanari<\/strong>known to the general public for the role of the \u201cLebanese\u201d in \u201cRomanzo Criminale \u2013 La serie\u201d, 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.<\/p>\n 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: \u201cFootsteps on the wind\u201d by Maya Sanbar, Faga Melo and Gustavo Leal, the story of two young refugees with the original soundtrack by Sting; \u201cMigrants\u201d, 3d animation signed by Zo\u00e9 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 \u201cStone Heart\u201d by Humberto Rodrigues, from Brazil; \u201cRoman Night\u201d, by Valerio Ferrara, this year\u2019s candidate for the David di Donatello; \u201cBig\u201d by Daniele Pini, awarded at the Rome Film Fest; \u201cDestinata Coniugi Lo Giglio\u201d by Nicola Prosatore with Lello Arena, winner of the 2022 Silver Ribbons; \u201cFree Fall\u201d by Emmanuel Tenenbaum, a reinterpretation of the World Trade Center attack awarded in Canada and the United States; \u201cDon VS Lightning\u201d by director duo Big Red Button; \u201cLost Kings\u201d 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.<\/p>\n 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 \u201cThe Secret Garden\u201d to Saturnia, inspired by the poem \u201cIl Corvo\u201d by Edgar Allan Poe with music by Tobias Laemmert; Roz Delacour with \u201cUnivers to Atom\u201d, an investigation along the frontiers of perception, between the unknown and the unknowable; the photographers Pirre-J\u00e9r\u00f4me Jehel and Fabrice Laroche with \u201cThe Imagined Archives\u201d, a visual exploration that recalls the principles underlying photography itself \u2013 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 D\u00e9costerd, will present \u201cCrevasses\u201d, a reflection on the effects of global warming on ice and its inevitable consequences; St\u00e9fanie Renoma with \u201cThe Banquet, an Opera\u201d, an ironic critique of the consumer society, characterized by the glamorous touch that has always characterized the French artist and designer.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n