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MedFilm Festival 2010
Mediterranean Cinema in Rome
16th edition
Rome 11/21 November
SPAIN and LEBANON as the Guest of Honor
THE WINNERS OF MEDFILM FESTIVAL 2010
OFFICIAL COMPETITION
Eros and Psiche Award
Min dît
The Children of Diyarbakir
Director: Miraz Bezar
TURKEY, GERMANY
2009, 35mm, colour, 102'
A film made with great truthfulness and mastery. The starring children are authentic and veritable, their look, their silence are more eloquent than words. Light, shots and camera movements perfectly adapt to the situations put up. The author remains in the shade of his film with a remarkable elegance.
Special Mention
Korkoro
Freedom
Director: Tony Gatlif
FRANCE
2009, 35mm, colour, 111'
With his huge talent Tony Gatlif focuses on the tragedy which has been suffered by the Roma during the Nazi persecution. The movie manages to emerge from the historical borders, focusing on the sore destiny that particularly affected Roma in our time. Tony Gatlif is a master in the art of conveying a message, Freedom is a hymn to life, imagination, music and soul of a people.
Artistic Espression
Rsasa taycheh
Balle Perdue/Stray bullet
Director: Georges Hachem
LEBANON
2010, 35mm, colour, 75'
The film moves from impressonistic moments to a minimalistic language expressing thow feelings and emotions from prived, intimed and discrete perspective reaveling the conflict of teritories.
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Open Eyes Award
Müezzin
Director: Sebastian Brameshuber
TURKEY, AUSTRIA, 2009, colour, 52'
One of the best films made formally; a good photografy, an effective direction and an original subject. The viewer is immersed in a fragment of islamic culture throw a fresh and realistic glance.
INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS COMPETITION
Methexis Award
Habibi
Director: Davide Del Degan
ITALY, 2010, 22'
Because of his mastery in managing the elements of the cinema language using them to create strong emotions. Running from the comic code to the dramatic one, this short film can give us a hope for the future.
Cervantes Rome Award
Palmele
The Palm Lines
Director: George Chiper
ROMANIA, 2009, 16'
The short shows the emotions behind the ordinary life of a lonely woman.
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Mediterranean Literatures Day
Mediterranean beyond its borders
16 NOVEMBER
> Casa del Cinema - Sala Kodak, 10.30
in collaboration with:
The Mediterranean Sea has always been the key witness to the history of
European culture, a conveyor of knowledge, of what lies beyond the realm of
mere necessity, of that which needs to be explored if one would encounter
and come to terms with what lies beyond the horizon of our view.
Throughout the millenniums, the ties that have been woven across it like the warp and
woof of a single fabric have constituted our past, enriched our present, and
laid the bases for our future.
Together with the authors who are our guests
here, we shall try to imagine one or more possible answers to some crucial
questions: what does it mean to be part of the great family of Mediterranean
countries today, and how can a new path of dialogue be opened and tread?
The aim is to identify a new route along which to meet, one that is free of
barriers and obstacles, that lies beyond contrasts and ideologies.
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ITALIAN FILM 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 WEEK IN ISTANBUL
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Habibi
Palmele
