Having reached its milestone thirtieth edition last year, the Trieste Film Festival (17 -23 January) is turning its gaze towards the new decade with a focus on various issues affecting the Old Continent. The event directed by Fabrizio Grosoli and Nicoletta Romeo will open with the Italian premiere of Terrence Malick’s new film, A Hidden Life [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], shot entirely in Europe (and a competitor in the recent Cannes Film Festival), whilst the closing slot falls to Corneliu Porumboiu, a cutting-edge director of “new Romanian cinema”, who will be presenting his eccentric noir The Whistlers [+lire aussi :
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interview : Corneliu Porumboiu
fiche film] - which also competed in Cannes - as well as delivering a masterclass open to the general public.

The International Feature Film Competition will consist of eleven films - all of which Italian premieres - set to be judged by the festival audience. Nationalism and economic migration are two of the main themes. Specifically, Brexit and its impact on the Bulgarian protagonists of Cat in the Wall [+lire aussi :
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interview : Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
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interview : Marko Škop
interview : Milan Ondrík
fiche film] by Marko Škop sees a Slovakian bricklayer returning home from Germany only to discover that his son is involved with a paramilitary group; Oleg [+lire aussi :
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interview : Juris Kursietis
fiche film] by Juris Kursietis focuses on a Latvian butcher who finds himself entangled in the Polish crime world in Brussels, while a more intimate window is opened by Ivana the Terrible [+lire aussi :
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interview : Ada Solomon
fiche film] where we see Ivana Mladenović bringing her own weaknesses to the big screen, as well as by the Serbian film Asymmetry [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], Maša Nešković’s first work which explores the transformation over time of a loving relationship. The same can be said of the Bulgarian title The Father [+lire aussi :
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interview : Kristina Grozeva, Petar Va…
fiche film] by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, where we follow the journey of a father and a son in mourning, and a similarly intimate look is cast at the failing marriage at the heart of Monsters. [+lire aussi :
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interview : Marius Olteanu
fiche film] by Romania’s Marius Olteanu; at the clandestine love recounted in Once in Trubchevsk [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Larisa Sadilova, and; at the pain felt by an entire village over the disappearance of Oroslan [+lire aussi :
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interview : Matjaž Ivanišin
fiche film] in this work directed by Slovenia’s Matjaž Ivanišin. Last but not least in this category, we find two incredible female portraits: Lillian [+lire aussi :
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interview : Andreas Horvath
fiche film] by Austria’s Andreas Horvath, inspired by the true story of Lillian Alling, and Zana [+lire aussi :
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interview : Antoneta Kastrati
fiche film] by Antoneta Kastrati, which explores the patriarchal society continually governing women’s lives in Kosovo.

Screening out of competition, meanwhile, are the two detective films Heidi [+lire aussi :
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interview : Cătălin Mitulescu
fiche film] by Cătălin Mitulescu, and Rounds [+lire aussi :
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interview : Stephan Komandarev
fiche film] by Stephan Komandarev, the comedies Paradise [+lire aussi :
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interview : Davide Del Degan
fiche film] by Italy’s Davide Del Degan and The Last Serb in Croatia [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Predrag Ličina - the Balkans’ very first “zombie comedy” – and two first works: Stories from the Chestnut Woods [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Gregor Božič and My Thoughts Are Silent [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Ukrainian director Antonio Lukič.

Special Events include the world premiere of Tadeusz Śliwa’s (Nie)znajomi - a Polish remake of Italian film Perfect Strangers [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] – starring Kasia Smutniak, an actress set to receive the Eastern Star Award. Three tributes, meanwhile, are in the offing: Juraj Herz’s masterpiece The Cremator, restored by Prague’s Cinematheque; W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism, one year on from the passing of Dušan Makavejev, and; The Night of the Shooting Stars by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, in honour of Omero Antonutti who passed away in November.

The International Documentary Competition, for its part, will consist of nine titles: The Euphoria of Being [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Hungary’s Réka Szabó; Marek Edelman ...and There Was Love in the Ghetto [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Jolanta Dylewska; Mother and Son by Hilal Baydarov; BATAstories [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Peter Kerekes; Exemplary Behaviour [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Audrius Mickevičius and Nerijus Milerius; Heat Singers [+lire aussi :
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interview : Nadia Parfan
fiche film] by Nadia Parfan; Immortal [+lire aussi :
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interview : Ksenia Okhapkina
fiche film] by Ksenia Okhapkina; Transnistra [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Anna Eborn and; The Wind. A Documentary Thriller [+lire aussi :
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interview : Michał Bielawski
fiche film] by Michał Bielawski. Screening out of competition, meanwhile, are Giuliano Fratini’s The Gift and Giampaolo Penco’s Vittorio Vidali - Io non sono quello che fui.