Eight countries competing for best film, including a world premiere, an international premiere and 5 Italian premieres in the event in the presence of talent and the public from 26 June to 3 July
Eight countries will compete for the prize for best film at the 19th edition of the Ischia Film Festival to be held in the presence of the public and talent from 26 June to 3 July on the island Covid free . Works in competition from Israel, France, Finland, China, United States, Poland, Portugal and Italy, which will be introduced live by the directors and their delegations in the spaces of the Piazza d'Armi and in the evocative ones of the Baroque Church of the Aragonese Castle of Ischia.
"A return to internationalization after a year of pandemics last year", enthusiastically declared the director of the festival Michelangelo Messina .
" Mr. Motor" will have its world premiere , the Hehe I, and will make his first international release " Echoes of the Empire Beyond Genghis Khan" , by Robert H. Lieberman. Two films that open a window on the East by telling respectively the contradictions of contemporary China suspended between tradition and modernity, and the extraordinary human and military adventure of the legendary Mongol leader.
Five films land on an Italian screen for the first time: “ Le Café de mes Souvenirs” , by Valto Baltzar, a French-Finnish musical that pays homage to the cult movie Les parapluies de Cherbourg; “ Pozzis, Samarcanda” , by Stefano Giacomuzzi, on the motorcycle journey undertaken by a mature Friulian centaur to reach the mythical Asian destination of Samarkand; “ Sombra” , by Bruno Gascon, which reconstructs the painful disappearance of a Portuguese teenager: in the background, international pedophile organizations; “ Abu Omar” by Roy Krispel, which touches on the topicality of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; “ Io sono Vera ” , by Beniamino Catena, which moves on a fantastic and visionary register, narrating the surreal homecoming of a girl who disappeared years before. The collective film Erotica 2022 has a strong value of denouncing the attempts to restrict the civil and social conquests of Polish women . Italy also represented by another film set in Calabria, “ Regina” , debut in the feature film by Alessandro Grande, former guest of the Ischia Film Festival and winner of the short films section in 2013 with “Margerita”.
The international jury composed of Karin Hoffinger of the Berlin Film Festival, the former Director of the Turin Film Festival Emanuela Martini and the Croatian Zlatko Vidackovic, Director of the Pula International Festival, have also been reconfirmed.
The nineteenth edition of the Ischia Film Festival is supported by the Directorate General for Cinema of the MIC and the Campania Region.
