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Genoa gears up for the Nuovo Cinema Europa Festival

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- From Monday 21 November, the seventh edition of the event will promote new talents in European cinema via a competition and a focus on Spanish screenwriters

Genoa gears up for the Nuovo Cinema Europa Festival
Brooklyn by Pascal Tessaud

The seventh edition of the Nuovo Cinema Europa Festival, an international rendezvous whose aim is to promote European cinema's freshest talents in Italy, will get under way in Genoa on Monday 21 November. The programme is divided into two sections, screening a total of eight features hailing from eight European countries.

The main section, dedicated to first-time directors, will present a selection of feature debuts that have successfully taken part in a number of major international festivals. The films will be competing for the Jury Prize and an award granted by the audience themselves, who will be invited to cast their votes once the screenings have ended. Four titles are in the running: Babai [+see also:
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, the feature debut by Visar Morina, a German-Kosovar-Macedonian-French co-production about a father-son relationship in pre-war Kosovo, which was a candidate for the Oscar nominations in 2016; the French title Brooklyn [+see also:
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by Pascal Tessaud, presented at the Cannes Film Festival in the ACID section, starring young Swiss rapper KT Gorique; the animated title Murderous Tales [+see also:
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by Jan Bubeníček, a Czech-Slovak co-production that blends live-action shots, 2D/3D animation and puppets; and the feature debut by Viennese director Stephan Richter, One of Us [+see also:
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, about a real-life shooting that took place in an Austrian supermarket.

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On the other hand, for the other, more in-depth section, the gathering has scheduled a Focus on Spanish Cinema, dedicated to screenwriting, new scriptwriters and the innovations being introduced in the audiovisual domain. Four films are on the line-up: The Lost Man [+see also:
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by Christophe Farnarier, Game Over [+see also:
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by Alba Sotorra, Eva [+see also:
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by Kike Maíllo and After [+see also:
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by Alberto Rodríguez.

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(Translated from Italian)

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