General delegate Giona Nazzaro has unveiled the independent and parallel International Film Critics’ Week (SIC) section organised by the National Union of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI) as an integral part of the 75th Venice Film Festival (29 August-8 September 2018), defining it as an observatory "from which cinema looks like a breeding ground buzzing with activity". The 33^rd edition of the SIC is made up of a selection of seven feature debuts in competition and two special events, all of which are set to be presented as world premieres. "Spurred on by the success of the previous edition, we’ve attempted to broaden the horizons of our possible gaze even further, trying to reach worlds and points of view that we hadn’t even scratched the surface of before," stresses Nazzaro.

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Opening the gathering as a special event will be Tumbbad [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Hajooj Kuka (a Sudanese-South African-Qatari-German production), a cheerful comedy ripped from the horrific entrails of the Civil War in Sudan. Italy is represented by a debut feature, We’ll Be Young and Beautiful [+lire aussi :
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interview : Letizia Lamartire
fiche film] by Letizia Lamartire, an auteur who rose to fame in the second edition of SIC@SIC with the short film Piccole italiane. French cinema will be competing with Blonde Animals [+lire aussi :
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interview : Maxime Matray et Alexia Wa…
fiche film], a surreal comedy helmed by Alexia Walther and Maxime Matray, while the ghosts of the reunification are still alive and kicking in German cinema, as demonstrated by Adam & Evelyn [+lire aussi :
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interview : Andreas Goldstein
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A documentary is also involved in this edition of the SIC, in the form of Still Recording [+lire aussi :
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interview : Ivan Salatić
fiche film] by Ivan Salatic, a painful poem about the disappearance of an entire world. And lastly, M [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], the directorial debut by Finnish pop star Anna Eriksson, is a mysterious experimental horror flick, and interestingly, the auteur herself took care of every single stage of the film’s creation, including the colour correction and the various mixing phases. 

Finally, the third edition of SIC@SIC (Short Italian Cinema @ Settimana Internazionale della Critica) will offer a competitive selection of seven short films by Italian auteurs who have not yet made the leap to feature territory, plus three out-of-competition special events, all of which will be presented as world premieres. The programme was born of the synergy between the National Union of Italian Film Critics and Istituto Luce-Cinecittà, and is just one of the initiatives intended to support the development of new Italian film and to promote young auteurs.

Here is the complete line-up of the 32nd International Film Critics’ Week:

Competition 

aKasha (The Roundup) [+lire aussi :
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Adam & Evelyn [+lire aussi :
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Blonde Animals [+lire aussi :
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interview : Maxime Matray et Alexia Wa…
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Still Recording [+lire aussi :
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M [+lire aussi :
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interview : Anna Eriksson
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We’ll Be Young and Beautiful [+lire aussi :
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interview : Letizia Lamartire
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You Have the Night [+lire aussi :
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interview : Ivan Salatić
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Special Events

Opening film 
Tumbbad [+lire aussi :
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Closing film 
Dachra - Abdelhamid Bouchnak (Tunisia)