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Arcipelago: A Roman Holiday for Germany

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German will be spoken at the 14th edition of the del Arcipelago International Festival of Short Films and New Images , to be held June 16-22 in Rome.

Germany is, in fact, the focus country this year, with 18 shorts (including the Oscar-winning Quest) made from 1995-2004, which give testimony to the vitality of short cinema, and an excellent selection of documentaries and animated film produced for educational purposes by the DEFA Studios from the 1960s to the 1980s, the era of the Communist Iron Curtain.

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Of the 1,596 works submitted from around the world to festival programmers, 76 were selected for two international competitions , including numerous animated films (from traditional to 3D animation). There are many well-known names in the program, including Henry Selick (Night Before Christmas) and the UK’s Chris Cunningham, director of numerous famous music videos.

The 21 works selected for the Italian competition include the paradoxical Un filo intorno al mondo by Sophie Chiarello, starring comic trio Aldo Giovanni e Giacomo; the Pasolini-esque Dentro Roma by Francesco Costabile; Sulla zattera by Ivano De Matteo; and Questo è il mio mestiere by Fabrizio Ruggirello, based on a short story by Marco Lodoli.

Europe is well represented in the competitions, as well in the Europe in Shorts section, which, in collaboration with the European Coordination of Film Festivals, selects nine of the best European films that display impressive use of digital technologies.

There is a new documentary competition, while one of the most noteworthy Special Events is "Promise Land(s). Il muro dentro (The Wall Inside)", 8 videos on a subject at the heart of international politics: the relationship between Palestine and Israel.

In closing, the festival, with the collaboration of the Bologna Cineteca, will offer audiences a document never-before-seen in Italy: the graduation project from the national Russian film school Vgik di Mosca of master filmmaker Andrej Tarkovskij, who passed away 20 years ago.

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(Translated from Italian)

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