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Venice Festival Films 2011 in Brazil

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A significant selection of Italian films from the 68th International Film Festival will be presented in Brazil within the remit of the seventh edition of the Venice Italian Cinema programme, taking place until December 23, 2011.

Organised by the Venice Biennale in collaboration with the Italian Embassy in Brazil, the Italian Cultural Institutes of San Paolo and Rio de Janeiro and the Italian General Consulate in Curitiba, this event brings to Brazil Emanuele Crialese’s (photo) Terraferma [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Emanuele Crialese
interview: Emanuele Crialese
film profile
]
, awarded at the Festival with the Silver Lion, Ermanno Olmi’s Il villaggio di cartone [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
, Gian Alfonso Pacinotti’s L’ultimo terrestre [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
, Cristina Comencini’s When the Night [+see also:
film review
trailer
making of
film profile
]
. Also to be screened on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Italy’s Unity are 1860, the masterpiece by Alessandro Blasetti from 1934, and We Believed [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Mario Martone
interview: Mario Martone
film profile
]
by Mario Martone, screened in preview at the Festival in 2010 and winner of 7 David di Donatello Awards and of the Nastro d'argento of the year.

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The programme will stop in San Paolo from November 7 to 13, in Curitiba from November 17 to 22, in Brasilia from November 29 to December 5, in Rio de Janeiro from December 9 to 15, in Belo Horizonte from December 17 to 23.

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(Translated from Italian)

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