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Cinema! Italia! in Germany and Switzerland

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- A double date beyond the Alps: that’s what the Made in Italy association is offering this Autumn-Winter after the success of the Nuovo Cinema Italia festival held last June and July in Austria

Cinema! Italia! in Germany and Switzerland
Quiet Bliss by Edoardo Winspeare

From 11 September to 19 December 2014 the 16th edition of the Cinema! Italia! festival will take place. This is a promotional tour for Italian cinema in Germany, that Made in Italy organizes annually with the contribution of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism and the support of the ICE (Italian Foreign Trade Commission), the Kairos Filmverleih distribution company, with headquarters in Gottingen, the Italian Embassy, Consulates and Cultural Institutes in Germany. 

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The tour will visit 29 cities, among which are Monaco, Cologne, Lubeck, Bremen, Bonn, Leipzig, Dresden, Hannover, Kassel, Stuttgart, Freiburg, Regensburg, Essen, Heidelberg and Darmstadt, to finish up in Berlin. The programme offers six recent films, expressly subtitled in German: Quiet Bliss [+see also:
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by Edoardo Winspeare; L'intrepido [+see also:
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interview: Gianni Amelio
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by Gianni AmelioMiele [+see also:
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interview: Valeria Golino
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by Valeria Golino; Sacro Gra [+see also:
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interview: Gianfranco Rosi
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by Gianfranco Rosi; Spaghetti Story [+see also:
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by Ciro De CaroNo place like home [+see also:
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by Rolando Ravello. In some cities directors and actors will also be present and the first guest, in Hamburg, for the first leg of the tour, will be Gianni Amelio.

As in previous years, the festival will host a sort of competition; all viewers will be given a card with which they will be able to rank the film viewed. The movie which obtains the best recognition will be awarded in Berlin at the end of the festival and will achieve distribution in Germany, based on an agreement between the Kairos Filmverleih company and Made in Italy, which will contribute to the film’s release and subtitling. In addition, the results of the audience’s recognition will be available to all German distributors and, like in the past, will help successful movies to find buyers for potential cinema or TV viewing.

In order to increase awareness about the movies on offer and about Italian cinema in general, a catalogue containing information tabs on the selected movies along with other information from critics will be published and distributed for free in cinema theatres involved in the tour. 

In Switzerland the Cinema Italiano festival which Made in Italy organizes together with Cinélibre, the Swiss film clubs’ association, with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in Zurich and the sponsorship of the Italian Embassy, will kick off on 6 October in Bern, with the participation of Giuseppe Piccioni, director of the movie Il rosso e il blu [+see also:
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. This initiative is also backed by a contribution from the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities. 

The mobile festival, stopping off in 13 Swiss cities, among which are Basil, Biel, Lucerne, Solothurn, St. Gallen, Winterthur and Zurich, will include five films, all offered with German subtitles: apart from Il rosso e il blu, also showing are Pretty Butterflies [+see also:
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by Salvatore MereuThe interval [+see also:
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interview: Leonardo Di Costanzo
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by Leonardo Di CostanzoReality [+see also:
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interview: Matteo Garrone
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by Matteo Garrone; No place like home by Rolando Ravello

For further information: www.associazionemadeinitaly.org

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(Translated from Italian)

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