NEWS DIRECTORS FILMS PROGRAM PRESENTATION REGULATIONS PARTNERS CONTACTS CURRENT EDITION select director Allouache Merzak Baumane Signe Caetano Israel Adrián Canale Mario Consiglio Stefano Dahan Yannick Fehner Léa Gandini Erik Ganslandt Jesper Harjo Sterlin Hormann Sherry Jalongo Valerio Miller Claude Miller Nathan Monzón Daniel Morri Annarosa Navas Jorge Pandimiglio Elisabetta Paskaljevic Goran Rocher Benjamin Rosi Francesco Sánchez-Arévalo Daniel Sangiovanni Paola Spada Marina van Warmerdam Alex Goran Paskaljevic During Enver Hodxa’s cruel, forty-year dictatorship, no one from Serbia was allowed to visit neighboring Albania, over whose soil were scattered several hundred thousand defense bunkers. Today, after the conflicts in Kosovo, still o ... Sterlin Harjo The script was a blueprint, but I didn’t allow it to limit us in anyway. If an actor wanted to change a line it was encouraged, and if I wanted to make up an unscripted new scene, I did it. I wanted to try and capture the spontaneit ... Daniel Sánchez-Arévalo Gordos is a game where the spectator has to guess who’s hiding behind (or inside) each character. We all interpret roles in life. We create a character that helps us go through life and who, most of the time, acts against our own fr ... Daniel Monzón More than a genre film, Cell 211 is definitely a tragedy in the most classical sense of the word. It is a tragedy that any of us would experience if we had to confront the extreme situation Juan Oliver finds himself involved ... Léa Fehner For me, the visiting room is, in essence, a fictional space. In a given time and place, subjected to extremely strict rules, men and women exchange and share a moment of their life stories. Life is condensed and, under duress, situa ... Sherry Hormann Waris Dirie’s autobiographical book Desert Flower is an incredible life journey. Never had I seen so many opposites existing side by side in a single human being: desert nomad child, top model in New York, illiterate cleaning ... Alex van Warmerdam The Last Days of Emma Blankis a horrific story. Greed and a total lack of compassion are what drive all the characters. Three of them die. The first is strangled, the second dies of thirst surrounded by her family, the third is beat ... Merzak Allouache I wrote this story after doing much research, through interviews and newspaper articles, as well as discussions with young people on a problem completely new to Algeria: the clandestine immigrants (the so-called harragas or brûl ... Claude Miller Our identity is a piece of cloth of which our childhood lined the contours. The presence of those who brought us up, our parents, created the basis of who we are. But what happens when there is an absence? It is one of the questions ... Nathan Miller Our identity is a piece of cloth of which our childhood lined the contours. The presence of those who brought us up, our parents, created the basis of who we are. But what happens when there is an absence? It is one of the questions ... Benjamin Rocher La horde is a radical work of fiction, not necessarily rooted in presentation of implied or gratuitously explicit violence, preferring to focus on the development of the characters and the thematic backdrop against which their tale ... Yannick Dahan La horde is a radical work of fiction, not necessarily rooted in presentation of implied or gratuitously explicit violence, preferring to focus on the development of the characters and the thematic backdrop against which their tale ... Marina Spada Poesia che mi guardi is a reflection on poetry and on how necessary it is. I love poetry and I love poets because they courageously give voice to what is usually silenced. Antonia Pozzi in particular struck me because her poetry is ... Valerio Jalongo When, exactly four years ago, I began discussing with other directors the idea of an investigation of or “White Film” on Italian cinema, we were fully aware of the difficulties of the undertaking. It had been since The Cinema Ma ... Stefano Consiglio With a small crew I traveled up and down Italy to meet and film gay and lesbian couples who live in big cities or small towns. Couples who have been together for many years, or for much less time. Of very different ages, social and ... Francesco Rosi What is a magliaro? A magliaro is a swindler, someone who gets by however and as best as they can, naturally without worries, since they have no morals. All three characters are magliari: Sordi, Belinda Lee and Renato Salvatori. [Sa ... Erik Gandini In a videocracy the key to power is image. In Italy, a single man has dominated images for over three decades. First a TV magnate, then presidente, Silvio Berlusconi has created a perfect pair, of politics and televisi ... Signe Baumane Paola Sangiovanni Ragazze – La vita tremais for me above all a film on memory, how it is passed on and how it can become historical narrative. In making it I met many women and listened to many stories before choosing four main characters, whose stor ... Mario Canale Vittorio De Sica was perhaps the most prolific and versatile actor and director of Italian cinema. His extraordinary career spanned 50 years, from his days as a young theatre actor, to singer, star of “Telefoni Bianchi” films; the s ...