Capalbio Cinema 2013

Capalbio Cinema turns twenty this year, and is back in the summer. The festival, directed by Tommaso Mottola, that promotes Italian and international short art film, will take place once again in the beautiful scenery of Piazza Magenta and the historical last Capalbio beach to celebrate the twentieth anniversary and to explore new worlds of cinema. Great guests for this edition, from 17 of july to 21. Among them Otar Iosseliani, which pays tribute to Capalbio proposing some of his short films. The Georgian director will present on July 17 Un petit monastère en Toscane, on the life of the monks of Montalcino, shot in Tuscany in 1988. On July 18, Iosseliani and Ugo Gregoretti will be together for the first time in Capalbio for a unique encounter in the setting of Piazza Magenta. The Festival will dedicate them the section Tribute to the great director, by Bruno Roberti, with the collaboration of Enrico Ghezzi and Rai 3 TV program Fuori Orario. Among the highlights of the festival, on 19 July the Lifetime Achievement Award to Giuseppe Rotunno, the great cinematographer who has lent his art in films such as The Leopard by Luchino Visconti, which marks the fiftieth anniversary this year. Moreover, in recent times Rotunno has been a valuable reference point for the restoration of the great cinema. On the same day there will be a focus on the transition from film to digital, and Laura Delli Colli will conduct a meeting with some of the masters of photography, since because from the end of 2013 the film won’t be printed anymore and cinema will enter forever the digital age. Enrico Ghezzi, with Bruno Roberti and Tommaso Mottola will take care of The Night of the New World, the marathon of Cinema and poetry to be held July 20 in the historic Last Beach Capalbio. A film-j-set by Enrico Ghezzi made of shards, fragments of sounds and images with special guests: voices, live appearances and readings by actors, filmmakers, poets, artists and writers.

Open the Night of the New Worlds will open with an exceptional event, the preview of a film that has so far remained invisible: the first film by Stanley Kubrick: Fear and Desire, with the help of Minerva / Rare Video that will distribute the movie in theaters and then edit it in digital.

Among the highlights Focus on Turkey. The cue comes from the recent events in Taksim Square and the many beautiful shortfilms which arrived at the competition. The guest of honor of the Focus on Turkish will be actress Serra Yilmaz, who starred in many films by Ferzan Ozpetek.

On July 21, the grand finale of the festival with Franco Battiato, who will star in a public meeting with Enrico Ghezzi Orbetello in the characteristic square Spanish fishermen. A fishermen boat will bring the guests of the festival through a magical tour of the lagoon of Orbetello and will dock at night in the square where, for the occasion, it will be screened Nothing is as it seems, the third film in chronological order by Franco Battiato, and a video made by Enrico Ghezzi titled Strange days, starting from the homonymous song by Battiato. Following the meeting with Ghezzi.

Capalbio Cinema, directed by Tommaso Mottola, was founded by Stella Leonetti. Godfather of the Festival was at the time Michelangelo Antonioni. The Festival is organized in collaboration with the Fondazione Sistema Toscana and has the support of the Ministry of Culture, the Tuscany Region, the City of Capalbio and the Municipality of Orbetello, and the patronage of all the major organizations of Italian cinema including: Anica, AGPC, ADCI, AIC, AGIS SCHOOL, FICE, SNGCI.

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