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Cinema: ‘Venice in Naples’ tells the world with 30 films – Campania


25-30 October, preview of the Golden Lion of Poitras, 40 guests


(ANSA) – NAPLES, 18 OCT – “Venice in Naples. The extended cinema”, XII edition, conceived and directed by Antonella Di Nocera, independent review in collaboration with the Venice Biennale, returns to Campania screens from 25 to 30 October: 30 works, over 50 events, 40 guests, 10 national premieres including the exclusive Golden Lion “All beauty and bloodshed” by Laura Poitras.

Created thanks to the support of the Ministry of Culture, the Campania Region, the Campania Region Film Commission Foundation, curated by Parallelo 41, the exhibition will feature 20 countries (including Colombia, Syria, Hungary, Israel, Greece, Burkina Faso, Indonesia and Taiwan ) through independent films with award-winning works not distributed in theaters and a particular look at young people and the female universe.

Ten screens (Astra, Institut Français, Modernissimo, Vittoria, La Perla, Mancini center in Ponticelli, Vittoria in Aversa, Magic Vision in Casalnuovo, Ricciardi Theater in Capua, Partenio in Avellino), extensive student involvement and a vast network of cultural partnerships from the Federico II University of Naples, the Academy of Fine Arts, the French Institute and many others. “As always, in its extended sense, the event is the hope for the culture that spreads and settles with a force from the center to the peripheries and vice versa”, explains Di Nocera.

Theo Montoya, a young Colombian director, will open with “Anhell69” and the tribute to Enrico Ghezzi, (“The last days of humanity”, Fedic Prize). Among the guests Salvatore Mereu with “Bentu”, the French Rachid Hami with “Pour la France”, the award-winning “Authors Under 40 Valentina Pedicini”, the English Georgia Oakley for “Blue Jean” and the Romanian Cristina Groşan for “Ordinary Failures. On October 29, exclusive of “Eismayer” by David Wagner, winner of the International Critics’ Week Grand Prize. Final with Vera Gemma, (“Vera” by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel, Orizzonti award for best director and best actress) and Abel Ferrara who will present “Padre Pio” together with Maurizio Braucci. (ANSA).

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