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Marco Amaral's films "3 years after" and Dídio Pestana's "Sobre tudo sobre nada" are part of the Locarno film festival competition, which will take place in August in Switzerland, was announced today. [19659002] According to the program unveiled at a press conference in Bern, "shortly after 3 years", Marco Amaral will be competing in the "Pardi di domani" section, while the feature film "Sobre tudo sobre nada ", the first work of
There are also two Portuguese co-productions at the festival:" Grbavica ", from Catalan Manel Raga Raga (Portugal / Bosnia and Herzegovina / Spain) in the section" Pardi di domani ", in the section" Signs of Life ". and "How Fernando Pessoa saved Portugal" (Portugal / France / Belgium), the American director Eugene Green and the Portuguese "Signs of life"
The jury "Pardi di domani", chaired by the director The French director Yann Gonzalez, also includes the Portuguese director Marta Mateu
In this 71st edition of the Locarno Festival, which will take place from August 1 to 11, Portuguese cinema will always be at the center of the "First Look" show, in which will be screened between five and seven Portuguese films in the post-production phase, for a public composed solely of professionals, among programmers, exhibitors, distributors and producers.
The selected projects were not yet revealed
In February, the festival announced the choice of Portugal For this program, the Deputy Artistic Director of Locarno, Nadia Dresti, said that "Portuguese cinema has always was acclaimed by critics for artistic excellence, but at the same time he captivated distributors and major international festivals. "
In partnership with the Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual ( ICA), the program aims to ensure the finalization and internationalization of the films to be selected. 59003] This will be the last festival under the artistic direction of Carlo Chatrian, invited to take the same position at the Berlin Festival in 2020, in partnership with Mariette Rissenbeek.
"This year 's program will include films that, instead to represent the conflicts that are exasperating all over the world, are concentrated in private stories whose current events resonate as the echo of the day. a storm, "reads Carlo Chatrian's press release
In the section" Piazza Grande ", this includes 18 films projected on the central square of the city for about eight thousand people will be presented, among others," Blackkklansman "by Spike Lee," Blaze "by Ethan Hawke and" The Wind Turns "by Bettina Oberli
" Liberty ", a 1929 film by American director Leo McCarey, this year honored in Locarno with a long retrospective for the 120 years of birth.
Another tribute This will be the French director Bruno Dumont, who will receive the prize "Pardo de Honra" and will be screened, at first international, four episodes of the miniseries television series "CoinCoin and the Inhuman" . "
French director Claude Lanzmann, who died last week, will screen the nine-hour documentary "Shoah" on the Holocaust.
The festival opens with Vianney Lebasque's "The Beautiful Minds" and ends with "I feel good" by Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern
Note also the presence of Brazilian films "Temporada" André Novais Oliveira and Julio Bressane's "Seduction of the Flesh", in competition and world premiere. , s, id)
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