The 15th edition of Concorto Film Festival presents an accurate selection of out of competition shorts, focussed on two countries (Greece and Cuba), on festivals, topics, production houses and journeys through the world of cinema.<\/p>\n
FOCUS CUBA<\/strong> Derakht (The Tree), by Roya Eshraghi Safaifard, Cuba\/Costa Rica, 2015, 13\u2019, ITALIAN PREMIERE FOCUS GREECE<\/strong> Downhill, by Stelios Kammitsis, Greece, 2015, 13\u2019 BONOBOSTUDIO RESTROSPECTIVE<\/strong> Dota, by Petra Zlonoga, Croatia, 2016, 4\u2019, ITALIAN PREMIERE IN THE PALACE FILM FESTIVAL<\/strong> Auf Wiedersehen, di Eddy Schwartz, by Yordan Petkov, Bulgaria \/ Germany, 2015 NORDIC MADNESS<\/strong> Brukerst\u00f8tte (Customer Support), by Andr\u00e9 \u00d8vredal, Norway, 2009, 5\u2019 UBIK<\/strong> A New Family, by Simone Manetti, Italy, 2014, 11\u2019 DEEP NIGHT<\/strong> Barry, by Jay Rondot, United States, 2016, 9\u2019, INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE THE HEYDAY OF THE INSENSITIVE BASTARDS<\/strong> A Walk in Winter, by Ryan Moody, United States, 12\u2019 UNIQUE EVENT | WORLD PREMIERE | ABCD by SIMONE ROVELLINI<\/strong> The 15th edition of Concorto Film Festival presents an accurate selection of out of competition shorts, focussed on two countries (Greece and Cuba), on festivals, topics, production houses and journeys…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nWhen working for this focus, we noticed two recurring feelings in the stories of the young filmmakers that animate the island’s new cinema. On one hand, the new generation is characterized by a great desire for emancipation; but at the same time, they show a feeling of deep affection and respect for the identity of the island and its history . Therefore, in building up this visual journey, we tried to keep in mind the contrast between escapism and nostalgia, investigating the relationship between young Cubans and their land.
\nThis short films selection has been realized also thanks to the San Antonio de los Ba\u00f1os Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV ( EICTV ), celebrating this year its thirtieth anniversary, and thanks to the festival Muestra Joven ICAIC, an event dedicated to the work of young Cuban filmmakers promoted by the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry . The authors of the works presented here are all young Cuban, with the exception of a young Iranian director who moved to Cuba to study in the famous Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV . The present selection results in a colorful picture of Cuba and the Cuban cinema, a place to experiment and in which authors can tell small stories impregnated with reality.<\/p>\n
\nEl otro viaje (The Other Journey), by Dami\u00e1n Sainz, Cuba, 2015, 18\u2019, ITALIAN PREMIERE
\nLa bendita mania de contar (The Holy Mania of Telling Stories), by Emanuel Giraldo Betancur, Cuba, 2015, 29\u2019, ITALIAN PREMIERE
\nMateria prima (Raw Material), by Sergio Fern\u00e1ndez Borr\u00e1s, Cuba, 2015, 25\u2019, ITALIAN PREMIERE
\nPolski, by Rub\u00e9n Rojas Cuauht\u00e9moc, Cuba, 2015, 22\u2019, ITALIAN PREMIERE
\nVelas (Candles), by Alejandro Alonso Estrella, Cuba, 2014, 20\u2019, EUROPEAN PREMIERE
\nYunaisy, by Juan Pablo Daranas Molina, Cuba, 2014, 13\u2019<\/p>\n
\nToday, Hellenic cinema seems to be among the most interesting and prolific in the whole European continent. Thanks to the collaboration with the Greek Film Center, Concorto Festival will offer to its participants the best selection of Contemporary Greek Cinema.
\nMuch attention has been paid to the work of the up-and-coming film director Konstantina Kotzamani. What is more, Concorto\u2019s artistic direction has made a selection of movies representing way the creativity of contemporary Greek cinema at its best.
\nThe Greek Film Centre (G.F.C.) functions as a public liability company that belongs to the public sector and is supervised by the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Hellenic Republic. The mains aims of the Organization are:\u00a0 \u201cthe protection, support and development of the art of film in Greece\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nEuroman, by Gabriel Tzafka, Denmark, 2015, 22\u2019, ITALIAN PREMIERE
\nFig, by Nicolas Kolovos, Sweden\/Greece, 2015, 13\u2019
\nJennings Lodge, by Aliki Souma, Greece, 2013, 10\u2019, ITALIAN PREMIERE
\nMarch 4, by Dimitris Nakos, Greece, 2015, 15\u2019
\nMorning Prayers, by Konstantina Kotzamani, Katarina Stankovi\u0107, 2013, Greece\/Bosnia\/Serbia, 18\u2019
\nPogoniskos, by Thanasis Neofotistos, Greece, 2015, 11\u2019
\nWashingtonia, by Konstantina Kotzamani, Greece, 2014, 24\u2019<\/p>\n
\nBonobostudio is a company specialised in production and distribution of award-winning animated and experimental films. It was founded in 2008 as a hub for creativity and innovation in experimental animation. Bonobostudio loves working with talented filmmakers, whether they are just beginners or established artists. We are passionate about expressing their visions and in doing so we value high production and artistic standards.
\nBonobostudio is also a proud distributor of great short animated and experimental films. We distribute only the films we like ourselves! Consultancy in the fields of film production and distribution is also a part of our daily business as well as curating film programmes, attending film festivals, markets and pitching forums.<\/p>\n
\nHunger, by Petra Zlonoga, Croatia, 2014, 6\u2019
\nJe criais contre la vie. Ou pour elle (I Was Crying Out at Life. Or for It), by Vergine Keaton, France, 2009, 9\u2019
\nLevitation, by Marko Me\u0161trovi\u0107, Croatia, 2014, 8\u2019
\nOna Koja Mjeri (She Who Measures), by Veljko Popovi\u0107, Croatia, 2008, 7\u2019
\nMorana, by Simon Bogojevi\u0107 Narath, Croatia, 2008, 13\u2019
\nPeter\u2019s Forest, by Martina Me\u0161trovi\u0107, Croatia, 2016, 8\u2019, ITALIAN PREMIERE
\nPlanemo, by Veljko Popovi\u0107, Croatia, 2015, 13\u2019
\nRazgovor (Conversation), by Ana Horvat, Croatia, 2015, 6\u2019, ITALIAN PREMIERE
\nTrain, by Olivier Chabalier, France\/Croatia, 2015, 13\u2019<\/p>\n
\nIN THE PALACE is an international festival dedicated to short films, new media and digital arts under 27 minutes in length. The main purpose of the Festival is to present contemporary film art from Bulgaria, Europe and the whole world. IN THE PALACE ISFF provides an exceptionally favorable environment and platform for expression for both young film artists and established professionals in this artistic field. Established in 2003, the festival has grown from a competitive forum for student films into the largest and most prestigious short film festival in Bulgaria and the region.<\/p>\n
\nD\u00e4wit, by David Jansen, Germany, 2015
\nNiewidzialne, by Zofia Pregowska, Poland, 2016
\nSolo Rex, by Fran\u00e7ois Bierry, Belgium, 2015<\/p>\n
\nScandinavian humor has not much in common with Italian humor, but it has many faces: it can be
\nsubtle, it can be dark, it can be obsessive, it can be crazy. The vague of madness and weirdness, well established in the cinema of great directors like Aki Kaurismaki, Bent Hamer, Roy Andersson, is also very strong in short films, and the shortness often encourages directors to be even crazier. We present in this small retrospective 9 films from Sweden, Norway and Finland, that span the last decade of Scandinavian madness. Get a beer and chill out.<\/p>\n
\nDager av kj\u00e6rlighet (Days of Love), by Eric Magnusson, Norway, 2007, 7\u2019
\nH\u00e4ndelse vid bank (Incident by a Bank), by Ruben \u00d6stlund, Sweden, 2010, 12\u2019
\nJa Vi Elsker (Yes We Love), by Hallwar Witz\u00f8, Norway, 2014, 15\u2019
\nLa viande + L\u2019amour, by Johanna Rubin, Sweden, 2012, 1\u2019
\nTs\u00e4g\u00e4ateria (Meal With a Deal), by Antti Heikki Pesonen, Finland, 2011, 8\u2019
\nPerint\u00f6 (Legacy), by Teemu Nikki, Finland, 2008, 6\u2019
\nSex and Taxes, by Jeuno Je Kim, Ewa Einhorn, Sweden, 2015, 12\u2019
\nSlitage (Seeds of the Fall), by Patrik Eklund, Sweden, 2009, 17\u2019<\/p>\n
\nExperimental cinema and new languages
\nUbik is a passageway, a secret door that leads to many different places. It is the space where language dares most, where visual grammar takes new shapes, it is a space populated by out-of-the-ordinary characters. These characters live in different worlds, exotic lands in which life is constantly on the verge of madness and bewilderment. In this place cinema is free to experiment and to chase the ancient myth of the \u201cvision\u201d (visions appear in the eye of animals, or in vitreous
\nundertows); nature reveals its inner cruelty and pain finds new colours to express itself, while men
\nare happy to die in order to become something else. Which is is the line not to be trespassed in\u00a0 order to avoid madness? What do the what lives around us is no longer so?<\/p>\n
\nArmat Jakawinaka \u2013 Vidas Ausentes, by Ronaldo Dimer, Brasil, 2015, 18\u2019, INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
\nBarbara dans le bois (Walking with Barbara), by Nicolas Clement, Belgium, 2015, 14\u2019, ITALIAN PREMIERE
\nGanjouriho, by Mathias Minne, France, 2015, 19\u2019
\nIn Between Identities, by Aleksandar Radan, Germany, 2015, 9\u2019
\nIn Waking Hours, by Sarah and Katrien Vanagt, Belgium, 2015, 18\u2019
\n\u00c1tv\u00e1ltoz\u00e1s (Switch), by Zolt\u00e1n Nagy, Hungary, 2015, 11\u2019, ITALIAN PREMIERE
\nThe Architect and the Gardener, by Thibault Le Texier, France, 2015, 13\u2019, ITALIAN PREMIERE<\/p>\n
\nAfter midnight, the small Teatrino Serra in Parco Raggio will get very dark: we will show thrillers,
\nhorrors, black comedies and also short films that are really impossible to catalogate. Only the adjective nocturnal can describe them. So be prepared to laught weirdly, to see strange plot points, to get scared. But most of all, be curious and ready to be surprised!<\/p>\n
\nEl quim\u00e9rico espectaculo de los Bizzanelli, by Omar Eduardo Ospina Giraldo, Colombia, 2015, 17\u2019, EUROPEAN PREMIERE
\nExposure, by Ignacio F. Rod\u00f3, Spain, 2015, 4\u2019, ITALIAN PREMIERE
\nHada, by Tony Morales, Spain, 2015, 9\u2019, ITALIAN PREMIERE
\nL\u2019ours noir (The Black Bear), by M\u00e9ryl Fortunat-Rossi, Xavier Seron, France\/Belgium, 2015, 15\u2019
\nNiin mets\u00e4 vastaa (Whistle in the Dark) by Aino Suni, Finland, 2015, 12\u2019, INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
\nNo Evil, by Mike Gan, United States, 2016, 19\u2019, INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
\nThe Procedure, by Calvin Reeder, United States, 2016, 4\u2019, ITALIAN PREMIERE<\/p>\n
\nBased on short stories from Robert Boswell’s collection, seven vignettes explore the difference between fantasy and reality, memory and history, and the joy and agony of the human condition.
\nThis peculiar \u201cfeature film\u201d, composed by 7 short films directed by 7 directors, has been created during the \u201cAdaptation and Collaboration\u201d class that James Franco teaches at UCLA.
\nProduced by James and Vince Jolivette’s company Rabbit Bandini in collaboration with UCLA, the film has an all-star cast that includes, besides the same Franco, Natalie Portman, Kate Mara, Kristen Wiig, Matthew Modine, Rico Rodriguez, Amber Tamblyn.
\nEach shorts in this project has its own universe, but the film works very well as a single project, with a dense atmosphere that spills over from one short to the other. The screening at Concorto of the whole project is its INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE. Rabbit Bandini Producers: James Franco, Vince Jolivette, Jennifer Kristen Howell, Michael Masini (executive producers); Jonathan King, Samantha Barrows (producers). Interstitial Director: Jonathan King.<\/p>\n
\nGuests, by Mark Columbus, United States, 10\u2019
\nAlmost Not Beautiful, by Sarah Jean Kruchowski, United States, 13\u2019
\nMiss Famous, by Shadae Lamar Smith, United States, 12\u2019
\nLacunae, by Vanita Shastry, United States, 13\u2019
\nSmoke, by Simon Savalyev, United States, 9\u2019
\nThe Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, by Jeremy David White, United States, 21\u2019<\/p>\n
\nABCD is a film divided by episodes built following one simple rule: each episode is narrated just through words starting with the same letter. The language is the limit of the world and within this strict framework four stories of women are represented. Anna, Barbara, Chiara e Daria are trapped in a surreal reality, always achieving a grotesque morality. The project, self-produced, has been developed since 2013 thanks to many young professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"