EFEBO KIDS – BODIES TO LIVE IN
THE SPRAYER
THE SPRAYER
by
Farnoosh Abedi
Written by Farnoosh Abedi / Editing Reza Eslami, Farnoosh Abedi / Music by Soroosh Abedi
Iran, 2022 – 10’
V.O.
05.11.2022
19:30
Cinema De Seta
Special Screenings
In the land occupied with the sprayers army, no one has the right to grow any kind of plants either in public or private. So many of the people and soldiers do not even know how dose a plant grows or look like, until one day one of the soldiers finds a seed buried deep down in the dust and his curiosity is just the beginning of something extraordinary, something big, something revolutionary
DIRECTOR
Farnoosh Abedi was born in 1985 in Isfahan (Iran).
Graduated in theater from Art & Architecture University Has been Making animation since 2000;
he has made more than 20 short animated films, TV series, documentaries and several commercial TV.
His films was presented and screened in more than 100 domestic and international film festivals.
VERA
by
Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
Written by Tizza Covi / Photography Rainer Frimmel / Editing Tizza Covi / Starring Vera Gemma, Daniel De Palma, Sebastian Dascalu, Annamaria Ciancamerla, Walter Saabel / Produced by Vento Film
Austria/Italy, 2022 – 115’
V.O.
05.11.2022
20:30
Cinema De Seta
Efebo d'Oro New Languages
Vera lives in the shadow of her famous father. Tired of her superficial life and relationships, she drifts through Roman high society. When she injures a child in a traffic accident in the suburbs, she forms an intense relationship with an eight-year-old boy and his father. But soon she must realize that also in this world she is only an instrument for others.
DIRECTORS
Since 1996 Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel are working together in photography, theatre, and movie projects. In 2002 they founded their own film production company Vento Film to produce their films independently. They won several awards for their documentaries, including the Wolfgang Staudte Award at the Berlinale for Babooska. In 2007 they were honored with the “Österreichischen Förderungspreis für Filmkunst” and in 2013 with the “Österreichischen Kunstpreis für Filmkunst”.
LA PIVELLINA
LA PIVELLINA
by
Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
Written by Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel / Photography Rainer Frimmel / Editing Tizza Covi / Starring Patrizia Gerardi, Tairo Caroli, Asia Crippa, Walter Saabel / Produced by Rainer Frimmel
Austria/Italy, 2009 – 100’
V.O.
06.11.2022
18.30
Cinema De Seta
Efebo d'Oro New Languages
Abondoned in a park, the two-year- old girl Asia is found by Patti, a circus woman living with her husband Walter in a trailer park in San Basilio on the outskirts of Rome. With the help of Tairo, a teenager who lives with his grandma in an adjacent container, Patti starts to search for the girl’s mother and gives the girl a new home for an uncertain period of time. La Pivellina is a film about a cosmos of outcasts in present- day Italy: a moving tale of courage and discrimination, of loss and togetherness, a look behind the corrugated-iron fence of a gated community.
DIRECTORS
Since 1996 Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel are working together in photography, theatre, and movie projects. In 2002 they founded their own film production company Vento Film to produce their films independently. They won several awards for their documentaries, including the Wolfgang Staudte Award at the Berlinale for Babooska. In 2007 they were honored with the “Österreichischen Förderungspreis für Filmkunst” and in 2013 with the “Österreichischen Kunstpreis für Filmkunst”.
ILS SONT VIVANTS (THEY ARE ALIVE)
ILS SONT VIVANTS (THEY ARE ALIVE)
by
Jeremie Elkaïm
Written by Gilles Marchand, Arthur Cahn, Jeremie Elkaïm / from the novel Calais mon amour
by Béatrice Huret / Photography Jeanne Lapoirie / Editing Laurence Briaud / Starring Marina Foïs, Laetitia Dosch, Seear Kohi, Igor Van Dessel, Antoine Chappey, Geneviève Mnich, Jan Hammenecker, Benoît Carré, Souleymane Sylla, Lucie Borleteau
/ Produced by Super 8 Production, France 3 Cinéma, Reborn Production
France, 2021 – 112’
V.O. sub. ITA
Italian premiere
06.11.2022
20:30
Cinema De Seta
Efebo d'Oro
Béatrice, a widow, lives with her son and mother in Calais, in the north of France. Their life was disrupted by Mokhtar, an Iranian teacher who had illegally taken refuge in Europe. For the love of Béatrice he will have to fight his country’s prejudices and laws.
Based on the real and controversial love story between a French widow and an Iranian refugee, Ils sont vivant, is an ode to change driven by the heart, the only law and ideology to be followed.
DIRECTOR
For Jérémie Elkaïm, real success came with his encounter with Valérie Donzelli, who directed him in ‘The Queen of Hearts’ and ‘Declaration of War’. For the latter he also wrote the screenplay and was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay at the César Award.
Together with Donzelli, who in the meantime has become his partner in life, he worked also for ‘Main dans le main’ (2012) and ‘Marguerite et Julien’ (2015).
BRUCIO NEL VENTO
BRUCIO NEL VENTO
by
Silvio Soldini
Written by Doriana Leondeff, Silvio Soldini / From the novel Ieri by Ágota Kristóf / Photography Luca Bigazzi/ Editing Carlotta Cristiani / Starring Ivan Franek, Barbara Lukešová, Ctirad Götz, Caroline Baehr, Cécile Pallas / Produced by Luigi Musini (Albachiara)
Italy/Switzerland, 2002 – 118’
V.O.
06.11.2022
22:30
Cinema De Seta
Efebo d'Oro Lifetime Achievements
The son of a prostitute of an eastern European village, Tobias spends his new life in a watch factory. Being alienated by his monotonous work, which seems to slow down the hands of time, he finds a(nother) way out in writing and patient waiting for a woman who exists only in his imagination. Or perhaps not. As always, the arts are the shield and revenge from a tiring routine and slow speed of life. The story has a literary touch even in its photography, which has been masterfully curated by Luca Bigazzi.
DIRECTOR
ph. Rocco Soldini
Silvio Soldini is an Italian director and screenwriter. He started his career in 1982 with the short film Drimage. A refined and educated author, Soldini has proven to be at ease with more challenging films such as Brucio nel vento (2002), Un’anima divisa in due (1993) and Le acrobate (1997), and with romantic and exciting comedies such as Pane e tulipani (2000), Agata e la tempesta (2004) and Il comandante e la cicogna (2012).
OBEŤ (VICTIM)
OBEŤ (VICTIM)
by
Michal Blaško
Written by Jakub Medvecký e Michal Blaško / Photography Adam Mac / Editing Petr Hasalík / Starring Vita Smachelyuk, Gleb Kuchuk, Igor Chmela / Produced by Michal Pusztay
Slovakia/Czeck Republic/Germany, 2022 – 91’
V.O. sub. ITA
Premiere screening
07.11.2022
18:00
Cinema De Seta
Efebo Perspectives
It is a drama full of suspense centred on the life of Irina, a Ukrainian single mother, who lives with her son Igor in a Czeck town, which lays bare central European society. One night Igor is attacked and the whole town shows solidarity and takes the side of Irina and the boy by condemning the Roma neighbours, who are suspected of having committed the crime. However, another truth will soon begin to emerge. The film has been presented at the Horizon section of the Venice Film festival in 2022.
DIRECTOR
© Paul Grandsard
Born in 1989, Michal Blaško is a Slovak director and screenwriter.
He studied film direction at the Academy of Performing Arts of Bratislava, the city where he was born and raised, and where he started his career as director in 2015. His short films have premiered in the most prestigious cinema festivals in the world and have won numerous international prizes. In 2022, his first feature film, Obeť, was presented in the Horizon section of the Venice Film Festival and is now in competion in the Perspectives category of the Efebo d’Oro Award.
© Adam Mach
TRA LE ONDE
TRA LE ONDE
by
Marco Amenta
Written by Marco Amenta, Roberto Scarpetti, Ugo Chiti, Niccolò Stazzi / Photography Sara Purgatorio / Editing Esmeralda Calabria, Letizia Caudullo, Aline Hervé / Starring Vincenzo Amato, Sveva Alviti, Daniele Monachella / Produced by Eurofilm, Oberon Media, Achab Film, Simonetta Amenta, Enzo Porcelli
Italy, 2021 – 94’
V.O.
First screening
07.11.2022
20:30
Cinema De Seta
Efebo Perspectives
Salvo is a fisherman and lives a solitary life overwhelmed by his nostalgia for the past that he seems to be clinging on. This bubble of melancholy he lives in bursts when a macabre discovery is made: the corpse of a drowned immigrant. His desire to bring the dead body back to his wife, who is unaware of the tragic event, will push Salvo to set off for a long, uncertain journey. Very soon he will meet Lea on his way, his former partner, who will join him in this road-trip. The two ex-lovers will then have to face the ghosts of their tragic past once and for all.
DIRECTOR
Born in 1970 in Palermo, Marco Amenta started his career as a photojournalist for the local daily newspaper Il Giornale di Sicilia. In 1992 he moved to Paris where he graduated in cinematography at the University Paris VIII and made several short films for French news agencies and magazines. In 2009 he made his debut with the first feature film, La siciliana ribelle, based on the story of the justice witness Rita Atria, which was presented at the Rome International Film Fest. His second feature film is Tra le onde, which is competing among the Italian premiere works at the 12th edition of the Bif&st, Bari International Film Festival.
MR. UNIVERSO
MR. UNIVERSO
by
Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
Written by Tizza Covi / Photography Rainer Frimmel / Editing Tizza Covi / Starring Tairo Caroli, Arthur Robin, Wendy Weber / Produced by Rainer Frimmel
Austria/Italy, 2016 – 90’
V.O.
07.11.2022
22:30
Cinema De Seta
Efebo d'Oro New Languages
The young lion tamer Tairo is unhappy with his life. He uses the loss of his good luck charm as an excuse to travel across Italy looking for Arthur Robin, a former Mr Universe, who gave it to him a long time ago. Mr. Universo is a movie guided by rational and irrational forces.
DIRECTORS
Since 1996 Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel are working together in photography, theatre, and movie projects. In 2002 they founded their own film production company Vento Film to produce their films independently. They won several awards for their documentaries, including the Wolfgang Staudte Award at the Berlinale for Babooska. In 2007 they were honored with the “Österreichischen Förderungspreis für Filmkunst” and in 2013 with the “Österreichischen Kunstpreis für Filmkunst”.
CORRADO CATANIA – CINEMA CRAFT AWARD
