Friday, 30 July 2021 09:04

Films in competition on July 30th

Love and the desire to change together, the prevailing themes of the ninth day of the Festival.

At 10 am in the Truffaut Room, Generators +16 will see the screening of THE WHITE FORTRESS (Bosnia, Canada 2021) directed by Igor Drljača: Faruk and Mona, a special friendship linked by the desire for freedom.  CHRISTMAS IN THE JUNGLE in the Sala Lumìere at 10am and at 2.30pm for Elements +6 children. In Sala Alberto Sordi at 10 am and again at 2.30 pm, for Elements +10 will be screened BIRTA (Iceland 2021) directed by Bragi Thor Hinriksson: Birta, a bright and imaginative 11 year old girl, listening to her mother on the phone with a friend, perceives that due to financial problems in the family this year Christmas cannot be celebrated as usual. So she will use her creativity to create a Christmas "with all the trimmings". CHRISTMAS IN THE JUNGLE (Estonia, Latvia 2021) directed by Jaak Kilmi: Christmas exists in Indonesia too! Paula will succeed in proving it as she sets out to find the Christmas shaman to obtain his miracle: bringing peace back to the family. In the Sala Galileo, reserved for Parental Experience, at 10.15 am the following shorts will be shown: Bed Seeds (Canada 2020) directed by Claude Cloutier: A chameleon-like work, containing meanings of rivalry and struggle for competition. Butterfly (Australia 2020) directed by Stephen de Villiers, Chloe Gardner:
For Elements +3 in the Sala Alberto Sordi, shorts in competition at 7.30 pm: HAPPY BANANA (Iran 2020) directed by Reyhane Kavosh and Ali Raeis: A gorilla and a banana: a strange pair of friends! MITCH-MATCH SERIES #6 (Hungary 2020) directed by Géza M. Tóth: The adventures of a matchstick with a blue head. But after every adventure, he always returns to his box. MONKEY DOMINO (Germany 2021) directed by Ulf Grenzer: The encounter between a monkey and a manager with his daughter will change the perspective of the poor caged animal. SMILE (Sweden 2021) directed by Jonas Forsman: A hug from a friend can bring a smile to anyone, even GroM. TWINKLE THE TOOTH FAIRY (South Korea 2021) directed by Han Seoa: Twinkle, a tooth fairy, is goal-oriented and wants to become "king of teeth" but Tutu, a reckless intern, will get Twinkle into trouble. URSA-THE SONGS OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS (Norway 2021) directed by Natalia Malykhina: Ursa searches for her mother and does so through the fantastic Norwegian landscapes with the Northern Lights. VALS&RUMBA (Spain 2020) directed by Laura Delgado and Eduardo Rodriguez: The story of a statue that wants to dance crosses paths with a special little robot. WARM STAR (Russia 2020) directed by Anna Kuzina: A little bird dusts the sky and unfortunately a star falls on it. The children on Earth will retrieve it. In the Lumìere Room, the Generator +18 at 19.30 will see the film NINJABABY (Norway 2021) directed by Yngvild Sve Flikke: Ninjababy is a fictional character who keeps telling Rakel: "You are a bad person". Rakel is afraid of her pregnancy and thinks she wants to give her baby up for adoption, but Ninjababy doesn't seem to agree. At Gex Doc, EMPY MAN by Davide Maraviglia: At 30, Federico has already lived many lives. And all successful. But that's not enough, because nothing he’s done seems to matter very much; he needs more. Once the entertainment world has been filed, the new frontier is art. His work begins to draw attention also thanks to the wise use of the Net: it is precisely his repudiated past which gives Federico the tools to achieve his dream.

 

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