At Saturday 16th of November the RIFF welcomes with the Focus Spain \u2013 The Valencian animation in which the Cortoons Gandia Festival and the IVAC, Valencian Cultural Institute, will present a special screening dedicated to animation short films made in the Valencian Community, assisted by Alessandro d\u2019Urso Artistic Director of Cortoons Gandia.<\/p>\n
For the international feature films at 20:15, \u201cEl despertar de la hormigas\u201d by the Costa Rican director Antonella Sudasassi, coming from the Rome Film Festival, already in competition at the Berlinale 2019. Filmed between Costa Rica and Spain, it tells the uncertain but irreversible emancipation of a young mother who lives in a highly patriarchal society. At 22.00 a \u201cSharp Knife\u201d by the Slovak Teodor Kuhn, the story of a father who lost his son.<\/p>\n
The Italian doc. \u201cM\u00e0t Sicuri the last Diogenes\u201d, first featured by Francesco Dradi, Fabrizio Marcheselli and Antonio Cavaciuti, trio of Emilian writers and journalists, dedicated to the true story of Enzo Sicuri (1907-1988), played by Alvaro Evangelisti, a homeless man by choice after a normal childhood in Parma. They called him \u201cM\u00e0t\u201d, but he loved poetry, books and opera music, he did not ask for alms and used recycled cartoons to pay for a plate of soup. His motto was \u201cIn life you can stay without anything except air to breathe\u201d inspired by Dante Spaggiari, an engraver of precious metals and an anarchist philosopher, in doc. played by Alessandro Haber.<\/p>\n
At 16.30 spirituality and art are at the center of Sidival row, the work of Friar Francesco Di Pede, created in collaboration with the Sentieri Selvaggi Film School and presented at the Venice Film Festival, shows the life of the great contemporary artist Fra Sidival.<\/p>\n
During Italian Short Films in competition: in Sala Fabrizi starting at 16:20 Luigi Di Gianni: Soul of the South by J.Guilyard, Suspended Moments by Stefano Fiori, The Whiteness of a Child\u2019s Mind and Death by Antonio Montefalcone, Svalutation by Francesco D \u2018 Ignazio, Teresa di Tommaso Ferrero. All the directors will be present during screening.<\/p>\n
At 19.30 Out of Competition \u201c Senza tenere premuto\u201d by Paolo Strippoli, present at the Festival, followed by \u201cTensione superficiale\u201d at 20:20 by Giovanni Aloi with Cristiana Dell\u2019Anna.<\/p>\n
At 22.00 Italian Courts continue with \u201cIl giorno 0\u201d by Sergio Panariello, \u201cMentre dormi\u201d by Francesca Giuffrida, \u201cVittoria per tutti\u201d by Elia Bei, \u201cPranzo della domenica\u201d by Alexandra Vogel. All the directors will be present during screening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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