holly by Fien Trochin Competition, beats flag of Belgium and the Netherlands. The director is a young-old acquaintance of the Festival, in 2016 at Horizons he presented Home, a film about teenage awkwardness, and had won the prize for directing.
He returns to the question with this film. Holly, with Cathalina Geraerts, Felix Heremans and Greet Verstraete, takes us in the world of fifteen from which it takes its title who, one day, phones the school to warn of his absence. Soon after, a fire breaks out in the institute, the death toll is tragic. The community is shocked, and Holly is invited to join a support group.
The girl’s presence seems to bring serenity to the community, but soon the line between support and abuse blurs, and Holly becomes the object of increasingly insistent requests. Playing with the codes of horror cinemathe film deals with the theme of adolescent discomfort through the figure of a girl with a special power.
Franz Rogowski is Lubo for Giorgio Rights
Lubo by Giorgio Rights, film based on the novel The sower by Mario Cavatoreaddresses a little-known issue. In Switzerland, in 1939, Lubo Moser (Franz Rogowski) a member of thenomadic ethnicity of the jenisch – gypsies persecuted by the Nazis in Germany and discriminated against at home – he is called up for military service in the Swiss army to defend the border, in the imminence of war.
But while away from family her children are kidnapped by the government, according to a national re-education program. Lubo thus finds himself redefining the line between good and evil, and planning his revenge.
Salvador Dali according to Quentin Dupieux
The Out of Competition proposals today are lovethe documentary by Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri e Daaaaaali! by Quentin Dupieux. Parable – certainly short (and for this we thank the author) and surreal – on the narcissism of artists interpreted by Anaïs Demoustier, Edouard Baer, Jonathan Cohen, Gilles Lellouche, Pio Marmaï, Didier Flamand and Romain Duris,
Daaaaaali! by the prolific French actor-musician-DJ stages the meeting of a French journalist with the iconic surrealist artist Salvador Dalí (played by four different actors) for a documentary project that will never get done.
The movie of Italian director, writer and artist who made the documentary in 2015 My Sister Is a Painter face up, by the daughter and 25 years later, the suicide of the mother drowned in the Tiber. The memory unfolds in a long walk through the city at night.
The images of the mother are like pieces of a puzzle that add up to those of Rome. Her figure emerges from the darkness and into the planet Amor where there is a city that recalls its Rome and where everyone takes care of the others.
“Welcome to Paradise”, by the young students of Fare Cinema
But it’s definitely worth seeing too Welcome to Paradise by Leonardo DiCostanzo, short film made by the director from Ischia with the young participants in the cinema workshop of Fondazione Fare Cinema directed by Paola Pedrazzini of which Marco Bellocchio is president.
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