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VENICE 2005 Event

76 Italian films for Annecy

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Making the best of the Venice la Mostra and the hospitality of Cinecitta Holding and the AIP on the terrace of the hotel Exelsior, the Annecy festival of Italian film unveiled yesterday the programme for its 23rd edition, which runs from 28th September to the 4th of October. In total, 76 films grace the menu, including features and shorts, fiction and animation, tributes and previews, and not forgetting professional meetings. The competition selection includes this year 9 features and 9 shorts from the most recent Italian output. Heading the list is Alla luce del sole by Roberto Faenza, Il resto di niente by Antonietta De Lillo, La passione di Giosue l'ebreo by Pasquale Scimea and Saimir [+see also:
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by Francesco Munzi.

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Elsewhere, we find 21 feature films, three documentaries and a raft of animation in the traditional Panorama exploring Italian production as yet unseen in France. Worth noting in this section La bestia nel cuore [+see also:
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by Cristiana Comencini, Volevo solo dormirle addosso by Eugenio Capuccio, La Febbre by Alessandro D'Alatri, Certi bambini from brothers Andrea et Antonio Frazzi, Vento di terra [+see also:
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by Vincenzo Marra, Ma quando arrivano le ragazze by Pupi Avati and also Gas de Luciano Melchionna. Opening with Quando sei nato, non poi piu nasconderti [+see also:
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interview: Marco Tullio Giordana
interview: Riccardo Tozzi
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by Marco Tullio Giordana, the festival also includes a tribute to the cinema of the town of Bologna and the Emilie-Romagne region.

As for the professionals, the star, without doubt, will be the producer Riccardo Tozzi, responsible for the creative work at Cattleya (read the interview) who will offer up a cinema lesson with 10 films produced by the company. Finally, a round-table discussion will take on the subject of Italian-European co-productions.
Headed by the director delegate Pierre Todeschini and the artistic programmer Jean Gili, the Annecy festival benefits notably from the support of the National Film Centre (CNC), and from la Direzione Generale per il Cinema, of AIP-Filmitalia and from Anica.

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(Translated from French)

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