SXSW svela la sua line-up
di Kaleem Aftab
- I film europei sono sparsi in tutto il festival statunitense, che torna a marzo come evento in presenza (con una componente online) con un programma di 99 lungometraggi, di cui 76 anteprime mondiali
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Irish actress Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ directorial debut, It Is in Us All [+leggi anche:
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Also in the Narrative Feature Competition is Vasilisa Kuzmina’s Nika, which tells the story of a 27-year-old former child prodigy struggling with her past, present and future. Other European features at the event include the international premiere of Reggie Yates’ UK hit Pirates [+leggi anche:
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The Midnighters section includes Kirill Sokolov’s No Looking Back [+leggi anche:
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Augusto Sandino’s Colombian-Czech-Norwegian production A Vanishing Fog [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Augusto Sandino
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intervista: Teemu Nikki e Jani Pösö
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Music has always been part and parcel of SXSW, and this year is no different: in the 24 Beats Per Second strand is the world premiere of Ana Sofia Fonseca’s documentary Cesária Évora (Cabo Verde/Portugal); Tim Mackenzie-Smith’s Getting It Back: The Story Of Cymande [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (UK); Sophie Robinson and Dunstan Bruce’s I Get Knocked Down (UK), about Bruce’s attempts to refine the anarchistic mojo he has as the front man of Chumbawamba; and In the Court of the Crimson King (UK), about the band King Crimson.
Global Presented by MUBI will introduce the world premiere of Faeze Azizkhani’s The Locust (Iran/Germany) as well as Women Do Cry [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
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Finally, playing in the Narrative Shorts Competition are Manolis Mavris’ Brutalia, Days of Labour (Belgium/Greece), Leo Berne’s Censor of Dreams (France), Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor’s For Love (UK) and Sean Lionadh’s Too Rough (UK).
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