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Cinema news<\/p>\n
In the 2019 edition of the Lucca Film Festival e Europa Cinema<\/b>, the festival taking place from 13th to 21st April between Lucca and Viareggio, will participate 14 feature films, which will be shown in Italy for the first time on this occasion<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n The films will compete for the \u201cBest Film\u201d<\/b> prize (worth 3.000 euros to the director), which will be awarded by the jury composed of the president Rutger Hauer and the jurors Philip Gr\u00f6ning, Ys\u00e9 Brisson, Roberto Manassero and Veronica Raimo<\/b>. The films will also compete for the \u201cBest feature film \u2013 student jury\u201d<\/b> award, judged by the university student jury, and the \u201cHonourable Mention\u201d<\/b> award, elected by the people\u2019s choice jury, in collaboration with Circolo del Cinema di Lucca e Cineforum Ezechiele 25,17<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Once again, this year the films selected offer an extraordinary variety of genres, languages and contents, with works from the most interesting international festivals, including the most prestigious ones, such as Locarno, Berlin, Slamdance and Rotterdam. Among the artists participating in the competition there are some of the brightest talents in independent and experimental cinema.<\/span><\/p>\n The titles are: All the Gods in the Sky (Tous les dieux du ciel)<\/b> by Quarxx (France, 2018), The Day After I\u2019m Gone<\/b> by Nimrod Eldar (Israel, 2019), Dollhouse: The Eradication of Female Subjectivity from American Popular Culture<\/b> by Nicole Brending (USA, Canada, 2018), Those Who Work (Ceux qui travaillent)<\/b> by Antoine Russbach (Switzerland, Belgium, 2018), This Teacher<\/b> by Mark Jackson (USA, 2018), A Family Submerged (Familia sumergida)<\/b> by Mar\u00eda Alch\u00e9 (Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Norway, 2018), Ako<\/b> by Nabi Gholizadeh (Iran, 2018), The Best of Dorien B.<\/b> by Anke Blond\u00e9 (Belgium, 2019), Killer Kate!<\/b> by Elliot Feld (USA, 2018), Zero Impunity<\/b> by Nicolas Blies and St\u00e9phane Hueber-Blies (Luxembourg, France, 2018), Eternal Winter (\u00d6r\u00f6k t\u00e9l)<\/b> by Attila Sz\u00e1sz (Hungary, 2018), Bait<\/b> by Mark Jenkin (UK, 2019), O Beautiful Night<\/b> by Xaver B\u00f6hm (Germany, 2019) and Thirty (Dreissig)<\/b> by Simona Kostova (Germany, 2019).<\/span><\/p>\n The official selection was made by Nicolas Condemi, Stefano Giorgi and Martino Martinelli<\/strong>, members of the festival\u2019s artistic committee. <\/span><\/p>\n The screening will take place at the Cinema Centrale of Lucca.<\/p>\n Simon, a 30-year-old man, works at a factory and lives confined on a decrepit farm alone with his younger sister, Estelle, who is severely handicapped since a childhood game that took a disastrous turn. Despite his deep remorse and the violence of the world that surrounds him, Simon desperately hopes to save his sister by liberating her from the weight of the world. What if their salvation was coming from \u201cthem\u201d?<\/p>\n International Sales: Films Boutique<\/p>\n www.vivaticket.it\/ita\/event\/concorso-lungometraggi-all-the-gods-in-the-sky\/129145<\/p>\n YYoram, a 50-year-old veterinarian living in Tel Aviv, is forced to re-examine his relationship with his adolescent daughter Roni, after she wishes to end her life. He decides to take her on a journey to visit her mother\u2019s family, a process of self and mutual discovery in a primordial desert land enveloping the Dead Sea.<\/p>\n International Sales: Luxbox Films<\/p>\n www.vivaticket.it\/ita\/event\/concorso-lungometraggi-the-day-after-i-am-gone\/129131<\/p>\n Fictional child pop star Junie Spoons just can\u2019t get a break (and can\u2019t even tell her own story) in this wild, demented romp into the psychology behind misogyny \u2013 the missing female subjective perspective. A puppet animation told \u00e0 la VH1\u2019s Behind the Music, this film charts the rise and fall of Junie\u2019s career as her life is splashed all over the media and recounted by those who claim to know her \u2013 a greedy record producer, a narcissistic mother, an opportunistic friend, ex-boyfriends and the like \u2013 until she is inevitably eliminated from her own story.<\/p>\n International Sales: Nicole Brending<\/p>\n www.vivaticket.it\/ita\/event\/concorso-lungometraggi-dollhouse-the-eradication-of-female-subjectivity-from-american-popular-culture\/129130<\/p>\n Frank, a man of action who worked his way up all by himself, dedicates his life to work. No matter the place or the circumstances, be it day or night, he\u2019s on the phone, handling the cargo ships he charters for major companies. But when he has to deal with a crisis situation, Frank makes a brutal decision and gets fired. Profoundly shaken, betrayed by a system to which he gave his all, he has to progressively question himself to save the one connection that still matters to him: the bond he\u2019s managed to maintain with his youngest daughter, Mathilde.<\/p>\n International Sales: Be For Films<\/p>\n www.vivaticket.it\/ita\/event\/concorso-lungometraggi-those-who-work\/129132<\/p>\n This Teacher follows Hafsia, a French Muslim woman, as she travels to New York City to visit her childhood best friend from the rough neighborhoods outside of Paris. When the reunion proves disastrous, Hafsia steals her friend\u2019s credit card and identity, and disappears to a remote cabin upstate. Deep in the woods and alone for the first time in her life, she experiences a divine revelation of an existence without borders. But when she discovers that she\u2019s not alone on the property, Hafsia\u2019s sojourn in nature gradually descends into a terrifying study of the intolerance and suspicion she encounters and reflects back to an Islamophobic America.<\/p>\n International Sales: Visit Films<\/p>\n www.vivaticket.it\/ita\/event\/concorso-lungometraggi-this-teacher\/129195<\/p>\n It\u2019s summertime in Buenos Aires, and Marcela\u2019s sister has suddenly passed away. As Marcela grieves, she must also face the painful process of purging her sister\u2019s apartment of possessions, photographs, family heirlooms. When a young friend of her daughter\u2019s, Nacho, offers to help her, she finds unexpected comfort and their relationship develops as they go on road trips and adventures together. During these difficult and confusing days, Marcela\u2019s past and present become intertwined and she begins to question her sense of self, as the imminence of everyday life pushes in.<\/p>\n International Sales: Visit Films<\/p>\n www.vivaticket.it\/ita\/event\/concorso-lungometraggi-a-family-submerged\/129144<\/p>\n Tehran\u2019s grand Bazaar. Every product has a story and every porter has a secret. Ako does not want anyone to know his secret.<\/p>\n \n www.vivaticket.it\/ita\/event\/concorso-lungometraggi-ako\/129301<\/p>\n 37-year-old Dorien has a flourishing veterinary practice, two sweet kids and a successful husband. Everything seems fine: on the outside. But there is something wrong. \u2018Black hole of unknown size\u2019 a newspaper headline says. This could apply to her life. When exactly it happened she doesn\u2019t know, but somewhere along the way things went awry. International Sales: Be For Films<\/p>\n www.vivaticket.it\/ita\/event\/concorso-lungometraggi-the-best-of-dorien-b\/129230<\/p>\n Kate and her sister, Angie, haven\u2019t spoken since Angie went to college and left Kate to care for their ailing father. In a show of reconciliation (seven years after moving out), Angie invites Kate to her bachelorette party \u2013 a weekend away at a remote mountainside house, booked on a new home-share app. The women are unaware that by booking this house, they\u2019re walking into a trap set in motion by a disturbed family of amateur killers who are out for blood to right a cosmic wrong. They soon become unwitting participants in a savage and often ridiculous life-or-death struggle that pits family against family, and past against present.<\/p>\n International Sales: Devilworks<\/p>\n www.vivaticket.it\/ita\/event\/concorso-lungometraggi-killer-kate\/129216<\/p>\n An ambitious transmedia project that serves as centerpiece of a global campaign to put an end to the impunity for sexual violence in current armed conflicts. A combination of investigative journalism and activism, which goes through war zones, courtrooms and prison cells, shedding light on the obscure mechanisms used for silencing sex crimes and the survivors of sexual abuse. A documentary that cries out for justice, urging us to take action.<\/p>\n International Sales: Indie Sales<\/p>\n www.vivaticket.it\/ita\/event\/concorso-lungometraggi-zero-impunity\/129231<\/p>\n Christmas 1944. Soviet soldiers invade Hungary and drag every young ethnic German woman away from a small village and transport them to a Soviet labour camp where they are forced to work in the coal mines under inhuman conditions. This is where Ir\u00e9n meets fellow prisoner Rajmund who decides to teach her how to survive. While she is determined to return home to her little daughter and family, history and fate have a different plan: Ir\u00e9n and Rajmund fall in love. Based on a true story. International Sales: Film Positive<\/p>\n www.vivaticket.it\/ita\/event\/concorso-lungometraggi-eternal-winter\/129229<\/p>\n Martin Ward is a cove fisherman, without a boat. His brother Steven has re-purposed their father\u2019s vessel as a tourist tripper, driving a wedge between the brothers. With their childhood home now a get-away for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the picturesque harbour. International Sales: The Festival Agency<\/p>\n www.vivaticket.it\/ita\/event\/concorso-lungometraggi-bait\/129312<\/p>\n Although Juri is young, he lives in constant fear of dying. Nightly panic attacks for him are routine \u2013 but one night he meets a dark figure who claims to be Death incarnate. So begins a bizarro-Faustian trip together through the night, during which Juri meets Nina and falls in love with her. But come dawn, one of them must die.<\/p>\n International Sales: Match Factory<\/p>\n www.vivaticket.it\/ita\/event\/concorso-lungometraggi-o-beautiful-night\/129302<\/p>\n 24 hours in the life of a group of friends on a Friday in October in Berlin. The six friends are in their early thirties, unattached, they all live in Berlin-Neuk\u00f6lln. Author \u00d6v\u00fcn\u00e7 is in the middle of a writer\u2019s block. Pascal, professionally successful, is haunted by the longing to ditch his current life for a new one \u2013 without really knowing what that new life would look like. Him and actress Raha just split up recently. She is hoping for a progress in her career, which is, day in and day out, long in coming. Kara rather likes crashing at some friend\u2019s place than staying in her own apartment. Henner spends the day in a random bar and meets Anja, who is going to be part of the group later on. International Sales: Stray Dogs<\/p>\n www.vivaticket.it\/ita\/event\/concorso-lungometraggi-thirty\/129303<\/p>\n Cinema news The jury will be composed of the president Rutger Hauer and the jurors Philip Gr\u00f6ning, Ys\u00e9 Brisson, Roberto Manassero and Veronica Raimo All the films are in Italian premier and will compete for the first prize of 3,000 Euros. In the 2019 edition of the Lucca Film Festival e Europa Cinema, the festival…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<\/div>\n
\nSYNOPSIS OF THE FILMS<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nAll the Gods in the Sky (Tous les dieux du ciel)<\/b> by Quarxx (France, 2018)<\/b><\/h3>\n
![\"Lungometraggio](\"https:\/\/www.luccafilmfestival.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/the-day-after-i-am-gone.jpg\")
<\/p>\nThe Day After I\u2019m Gone<\/b> by Nimrod Eldar (Israel, 2019)<\/b><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nDollhouse: The Eradication of Female Subjectivity from American Popular Culture<\/b> by Nicole Brending (USA, Canada, 2018)<\/b><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nThose Who Work (Ceux qui travaillent)<\/b> by Antoine Russbach (Switzerland, Belgium, 2018)<\/b><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nThis Teacher<\/b> by Mark Jackson (USA, 2018)<\/b><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nA Family Submerged (Familia sumergida)<\/b> by Mar\u00eda Alch\u00e9 (Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Norway, 2018)<\/b><\/h3>\n
![\"Lungometraggio](\"https:\/\/www.luccafilmfestival.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ako.jpg\")
<\/p>\nAko<\/b> by Nabi Gholizadeh (Iran, 2018)<\/b><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nThe Best of Dorien B.<\/b> by Anke Blond\u00e9 (Belgium, 2019)<\/b><\/h3>\n
\nBad news is followed by worse in The Best of Dorien B., a measured, human and dryly comedic drama: or is it a dramatic comedy about the opportunities created by misfortune? Her parents\u2019 marital problems, a lingering affair and an unpleasant hospital visit shed different lights on Dorien\u2019s life.<\/p>\n![\"Lungometraggio](\"https:\/\/www.luccafilmfestival.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/killer-kate.jpg\")
<\/p>\nKiller Kate!<\/b> by Elliot Feld (USA, 2018)<\/b><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nZero Impunity<\/b> by Nicolas Blies and St\u00e9phane Hueber-Blies (Luxembourg, France, 2018)<\/b><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nEternal Winter (\u00d6r\u00f6k t\u00e9l)<\/b> by Attila Sz\u00e1sz (Hungary, 2018)<\/b><\/h3>\n
\nEternal Winter is the very first feature film about the 700,000 Hungarian victims of the Soviet labour camps whose stories remained untold for over 70 years.<\/p>\n![\"Lungometraggio](\"https:\/\/www.luccafilmfestival.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bait.jpg\")
<\/p>\nBait<\/b> by Mark Jenkin (UK, 2019)<\/b><\/h3>\n
\nAs his struggle to restore the family to their traditional place creates increasing friction with tourist and locals alike, a tragedy at the heart of the family changes his world.<\/p>\n![\"Lungometraggio](\"https:\/\/www.luccafilmfestival.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/o-beautiful-night.jpg\")
<\/p>\nO Beautiful Night<\/b> by Xaver B\u00f6hm (Germany, 2019)<\/b><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nThirty (Dreissig)<\/b> by Simona Kostova (Germany, 2019)<\/b><\/h3>\n
\nThat night, the friends celebrate \u00d6v\u00fcn\u00e7\u2019s birthday coming up. They exchange the constricting day for an emerging, exciting Berlin nightlife and wander the streets and bars of Neuk\u00f6lln \u2013 looking for a treat, a reward for all one had to bear with during the day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"