Saturday, May 29, 2010

Biografilm Festival 2010 (Bologna, June 9-14)

"Biografilm Festival is the first international event entirely devoted to biographies and life tales. The aim of Biografilm Festival is to find and to show life paths and experiences, big and small stories that influenced and determined the world history.

Biografilm Festival individuated, and followed with a perfect timing, the peculiarity of the biopic genre and its audience, for some reason not explored before in Italy: the cultural quality of the biopic genre is intended as a highly positive value from a communication perspective, in a moment during which there’s a return to values the like of widening, commitment and a general increasing request of quality cultural products. .

Biografilm Festival has detected and answered to an audience that finds in biographies a chance of deepening and reflection about complex and current themes. The festival has anticipated and contributed to enlarge the interest about biographies that has pervaded the recent cinematographic production: over 300 films received by the artistic direction for the 2009 edition witness the vitality of the genre.

Biografilm Festival will showcase, within a wide and articulated program, a selection of recent feature and short films, both fictional and documentaries, cinema and TV productions. The festival promotes, as well, tributes to directors who, with their work, have contributed to the development of the biographic genre, and schedules national and international premieres of brand new films, along with related special events, thematic programs and retrospectives.

Thanks to the cultural profile of the extremely rich program and to the consistency of the inspiring theme, last edition of the Biografilm Festival, brought the attention to the core of human life using all kinds of languages and expressive means and achieved a great critic and audience success.

Each day of the festival is devoted to a specific personality, with a programme of screenings, meetings and special events. "

"The 6th edition, that will take place in Bologna, from 9th to 14th June 2010 at Manifattura delle Arti, celebrates 50 years of the memorabile Italian time of the ’60. Titled “ Italia ’60, il Boom, la dolce vita”, the core of the Festival is the 1960, as symbolic year representing a divining line to discĂ©rn the rural Italy- just came out of the war and of dictatorship- from the rest of nation that was approaching to the consumerism, factories, social changement, wellness, beauty and to new politics actions.

An Italy that in the 1960 was totaly to rebuild and to imagine/figure out."

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