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VENICE 2011 Venice Days

Several First Works at the Venice Days

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Daniele Gaglianone’s noir Ruggine [+see also:
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, with Filippo Timi, Stefano Accorsi, Valerio Mastandrea and Valeria Solarino, and debut film Io sono lì [+see also:
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by Andrea Segre are the Italian films selected for the eighth edition of the Venice Days, the independent section of the Venice Film Festival (31August -10 September) organised by the National Association of Cinematographic Authors (ANAC) and 100Autori.

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In addition to the 12 feature films which make up the Selection, dominated by French productions, the programme features some Special Events and an “Open Space”, devoted to documentary and Italian independent productions. "This year’s difference – says the Days’ Director, Giorgio Gosetti - lies in a greater polarisation in the official programme: on the one hand a vast number of famous authors such as China’s Lou Ye, major representative of the sixth generation of Chinese cinema, Italy’s Daniele Gaglianone, award-winner at Locarno last year, France’s Philippe Lioret, much-awaited after the global success of Welcome [+see also:
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; on the other hand a great number of debut films, originating in Belgium, Italy, Poland, Brasil, Palestine, Russia, which confirm the attention that Venice pays to the renewal of authors’ creativity".

Recurring themes include the roots of memory, the development of the idea of social fabric, private violence, the distance between justice and truth, clashes between civilisations. Thirteen countries are represented, with France leading with Guilty [+see also:
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by Vincent Garenq, All Our Desires [+see also:
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by Philippe Lioret, with Vincent Lindon, Love and Bruises by Lou Ye, and French co-productions Another Silence [+see also:
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by Santiago Amigorena (with Canada, Brazil and Argentina), Historias by Julia Murat (with Brazil, debut film), Io sono lì(with Italy), Last Winter [+see also:
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by John Shank (with Belgium, debut film), Café de flore [+see also:
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by Jean-Marc Vallée (with Canada). Poland is represented by Ki by Ladzek Dawid, Holland has co-produced Habibi by Susan Youssef with Palestine and UAE. While Russia will show Twilight Portrait by Angelina Nikonova.

The Special Events will include short film Beyond the Glass by Andrea Di Bari, in which the writer Erri De Luca makes his film debut, the documentary by journalist Gianni Minà Cuba in the Age of Obama and a further documentary, Voi siete qui by Francesco Matera, about Italian film locations in Rome. The films in Open Space include Italo-Argentinian production Mundial Olvidado by Lorenzo Garzella and Filippo Macelloni, La penna di Hemingway by Renzo Carbonera, with ChristianeFilangieri and Sergio Rubini, and Radici all'inferno e rami nel cielo by Carlo Luglio, with Neapolitan singer-songwriter Enzo Gragnaniello.

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(Translated from Italian)

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