POMPEI, 7 Jun. (askanews) – The International Film Festival of Pompeii is in the heart, the first edition of an event born from the desire to bring a new story in the world to a place full of history, through the powerful language of cinema, combining visual arts, tourism, fashion in an international project that has its roots in the territory.
To tell the goal of the Festival, the president Annarita Borelli: “protect cultural identity, make eternal identity through cinema, therefore cinema as a flywheel for the protection of cultural identity”. Until June 8, a selection of films in competition presented, internationals that explore universal and contemporary themes through a global gaze and a selection of Italian short films.
The artistic director Enrico Vanzina: “We have made an international film festival, which brings from Japan to Mexico, from Turkey to Italy, of the films that represent our soul, of our past, our traditions, to mirror each other and accept itself. The cultural identity serves to bring closer, not to divide and raise walls, and I believe that this small festival can serve to give a focus on this theme in which the world goes towards the world that everything is approved ”.
Among the guests also directors such as Marco Risi and Gianni Amelio who presented his “Hammamet”. The director, always careful to tell the story in his films, said: “I do not focus only on a reality like the Italian one, I think of the world that unfortunately today is going in a way that nobody likes, I think of the wars, in Gaza, Ukraine, inside you also want to sometimes intervene even with more strength than with a simple film but I have no other means if not this to express myself and also say what are my hopes”.
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