14/10/2013 - Seven documentaries in competition and three out of competition, all in their international premiere, mark new trends for Italian documentary cinema

In a festival in which “quality counts as much as non-identity, the multiplicity of expressive phenomena,” director Marco Muller said, where the idea of fiction is challenged as are “common perceptions of reality,” Muller’s decision, taken together with the selection committee, to focus on documentaries in the Italian section, comes as no surprise. This year, the section will be called Prospettive Doc Italia.

Seven documentaries in competition and three out of competition, all in their international premieres, will mark new trends for Italian documentary cinema, which only a month ago was victorious in Venice with Golden Lion handed to Sacro GRA [+see also:
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Capo e Croce, le ragioni dei pastoriby Paolo Carboni and Marco Antonio Pani, From the Depths [+see also:
trailer
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Two films focusing on a great maestro will be presented out of competition: L'altro Felliniby Roberto Naccari and Stefano Bisulli and Federico degli Spiriti – L’ultimo Felliniby Antonello Sarno. The selection will be completed by Ho fatto una barca di soldi by Dario Acocella. 

(Translated from Italian)