MedFilm Festival 2009

ITALIAN FILM'S WEEK IN ISTANBUL
2nd EDITION

DECEMBER 4-10
> Cinema Alkazar
> Pera Museum

in collaboration with
Italian Cultural Institute in Istanbul

Italian cinema raises its 'head up'. The title of Alessandro Angelini's film, chosen as the closing film of the festival, helps us to summarize in a few words the age of a revival. A kaleidoscopic modern day Italy, made up of micro-stories and dialects, secondary characters and heroes, great writers, talented newcomers, an explosion of points of view that describe the complexity of our times.
Whether it be through the sharp lines of comedy, or through the dismal interiors of a personal drama, what always emerges is the filmmaker's quest to portray with authenticity, the sentimental and political state of a country which draws the strength to rediscover itself from its situation of historical uncertainty.
Ivano De Matteo's The Beautiful People, the opening film of the Festival, shows how, with acute, yet modern, simplicity, it is the bourgeoisie and intellectual world who come out the worst from this harsh analysis, which reveals their hypocrisy, their lack of courage and the fear and confusion created by their loss of identity. Whereas the common man, instead, comes out from this analysis with flying colours. He is in credit with life and, now more than ever, in every corner of the globe, he is no longer afraid to shout out his desire for redemption, and his will to grab on to his dreams, for a moment or for the rest of his life.

2nd ITALIAN FILM'S WEEK IN ISTANBUL

MedFilm Festival 2009

Mediterranean Cinema in Rome

Official Competition Winner

EROS AND PSYCHE AWARD

Eynaim pkohot
Eyes Wide Open
Director: Haim Tabakman

ISRAEL, FRANCE, GERMANY
2009, 35mm, colour, 100'
Vers: Ebraico, Yiddish, Inglese - Sub: Ita

for its direction and film's great formal style which challenge an unpredictable promiscuity between religion and sex.

ALL THE WINNERS OF MFF 2009

MEDITERRANEAN FILM PROFESSIONALS FORUM

2^nd edition

NOVEMBER 11/13

in cooperation with ICE-ITALIAN TRADE COMMISSION

MedFilm Festival is proud to announce the MEDITERRANEAN FILM PROFESSIONALS DAYS, 2^nd edition, open to Producers and Distributors from the Mediterranean area and designed to promote Mediterranean Films and to encourage opportunities for co-production and distribution across the area. Target of the initiative is to increase business relations between professionals of the audio visual sector - who are looking for new partners, new project for co-production and distribution markets.

NEWS 2009: MedFilm offers, to the film industry professionals interested, two focus events: the first dedicated to co-production and second to distribution, to be held on November 11/13.
Hence, the intent is to achieve the utmost increase in cooperation opportunities amongst film professionals of the Mediterranean Countries, through each channel of the cinema industry chain.
Thus, the ITALIAN-MEDITERRANEAN FILM PROFESSIONALS DAYS will provide a chance of networking opportunities and direct connections, facilitated by extensive sections of one2one meetings focused on the co-production, distribution and the selling of Mediterranean films.