Two competitive contests SchermoNapoli Corti and Nuovo Cinema Italia with screenings at the French Institute of Naples and the Auditorium Santa Luisa di Marillac.
Retrospective for the 120th anniversary of the birth of Georges Simenon.
Two competitive contests and tributes to Georges Simenon, Buster Keaton and Peter Bogdanovich. These are the first ingredients of the 24th edition of the Naples Film Festival that will be held from 25 to 30 September directed by Mario Violini and organized by WooW with the French Institute of Naples and the contribution of the Campania Region and the Fondazione Film Commission Regione Campania.
In addition to the traditional SchermoNapoli Corti, which focuses on short films made by authors from the region, the Nuovo Cinema Italia competition for feature films by young directors is also back with screenings between the Sala Dumas in Grenoble and the Auditorium Santa Luisa di Marillac, a 230-seat hall that is opening to the city for the first time, in via Andrea d'Isernia 23, in the complex managed by the Figlie della Carità.
"Twenty-four years full of prestigious guests, great previews and important retrospectives. Covid has slowed down the fervor that was there and the desire to discover a different cinema full of content. We have restarted from a single location compared to the usual six and a single competition out of the five that we previously announced. Two editions without contributions, created only with our own efforts while waiting for the public to start frequenting the cinemas again. Today we are starting to increase the offer", thus the director Violini, who this year was supported in the organization by the manager Antonio Ciotola of Wonder Management and availed himself of the collaboration of Antonio Borrelli, Giuseppe Borrone, Ludovico Brancaccio, Marco Chiappetta, Maria Di Razza, Massimo Saidel, Alessandro Savoia, Tiziano Sossi, Evelina Violini.
The works in competition
Competing for the Vesuvio Award in New Cinema Italy will be the feature films “L' Anima In Pace” by Ciro Formisano (screened on September 25 at 18.30:26 pm in the Sala Dumas of Grenoble), “Quanno Chiove” by Mino Capuano (September 18.30 at 27:18.30 pm), “Bellezza Addio” by Carmen Giardina and Massimiliano Palmese (September 28 at 18.30:29 pm); “Le Ragazze Non Piangono” by Andrea Zuliani (September 30 at XNUMX:XNUMX pm); “La Luna Sott' Acqua” by Alessandro Negrini (September XNUMX); “Corsa Abusiva” by Andrea Bifulco (September XNUMX).
In the SchermoNapoli Corti section, the following films have been selected: “A Mia Immagine” by Giuseppe Bucci; “One Kiss Too Many” by Vincenzo Lamagna; “Brotherness” by David Power; “Happy Birthday Noemi” by Angela Bevilacqua; “Who Shoots First” by Emanuele Palamara; “It's Only the Wind” by Enrico Iannaccone; “Fatman” by Raffaele Patti; “Geisha” by Antonio Longobardi; “Leggerissima” by Lidia Riccardi; “Malafede” by Chiara Borsini, Marialuisa Greco and Paolo Corazza; “The Sea That Moves Things” by Lorenzo Marinelli; “Little Things” by Elio Nubes De Filippo and Jessica Squillante; “The Father's Place” by Francesco D'Ascenzo; “Something Stays” by Pasquale Napolitano; “Alone Girls” by Gaetano Acunzo; “Dreaming of Venice” by Elisabetta Giannini; “Last Empire” by Danilo Monte; “The Alley of Dreams” by Lorenzo Giroffi.
The winner will be announced during the awards ceremony scheduled for Saturday 30 September at 20.30:XNUMX pm by juries composed of film critic Alberto Castellano, actor Vincenzo Nemolato, and director Marcello Sannino for Nuovo Cinema Italia and director Marco Chiappetta, actress Cristina Donadio and film critic Ignazio Senatore for SchermoNapoli Corti.
Tributes to Georges Simenon, Buster Keaton and Peter Bogdanovich
The image of this edition, curated as usual in recent years by the Open Art graphics school of Federico Donatelli, is by Ivan Oliva and is inspired by the retrospective that the festival is offering for the 120th anniversary of the birth of the great Franco-Belgian writer Georges Simenon, with the screening of five very different films made from the 50s to today by authors of different eras and styles: “Le chat” by Pierre Granier-Deferre (September 25 at 17 pm at Grenoble), “The Bottom of the Bottle” by Henry Hathaway (September 26 at 17 pm), “The Blue Room” by Mathieu Amalric (September 27 at 17 pm), “Maigret” by Patrice Leconte (September 28 at 17 pm) and the gem by Bela Tarr “The Man from London”, unreleased on the big screen (September 29 at 16.30:XNUMX pm).
Tributes will also be paid to two cinema greats, Buster Keaton and Peter Bogdanovich, with the screening of Bogdanovich's “The Great Buster” (September 30, 16.30:XNUMX pm), a celebratory film about “Face of Stone”, one of the greatest comedians of silent cinema, a true lesson in cinema, full of interviews and truly dazzling film scenes, never screened in Naples before.
Space also for Mediterranean cinema and cinematographic literature
The festival has always dedicated a competition to Mediterranean cinema, but since there is not yet the possibility of realizing it, it has decided to propose or re-propose notable unreleased films or films that have been seen as meteors in Naples at the Auditorium Santa Luisa di Marillac: “Amira” (September 26), Il frutta della tarda estate (September 27), Mediterranean Fever (September 28) and Miserere (September 29).
There will be four meetings with the authors of books related to cinema at the Santa Luisa di Marillac Institute. Salvatore Iorio and Salvatore Aulicino Mazzei will help us enter the “Troisi Universe”, a volume dedicated to the late and unforgettable protagonist of cinema (September 26 at 18 pm); Giancarlo Giacci, with readings by Cristina Donadio, presents “Fino all'ultima sala” a research on the historic Neapolitan cinemas from the beginning to the present day (September 27 at 18 pm); Ignazio Senatore takes us through anecdotes, curiosities and gossip with “Cinema seen from the keyhole”, in the analysis of the film “Blade Runner” which maintains its charm intact 41 years after its release in cinemas (September 28 at 18 pm); finally Paolo Spagnuolo and Paolo Speranza will introduce Napoli Calibro 35 mm, an organic and articulated journey through a century of films inspired by criminal Naples from the beginning to Gomorrah and beyond (September 29 at 18 pm).
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