Venice's International Film Critics'
Week will this year focus on women and youthful restlessness
between August 30 and September 9.
In the 32nd edition of the selection for debuts, Silvia Luzi
and Luca Bellino will be competing for Italy with 'The Crater',
which is a sort of Disney fable in reverse in which a Naples
father wants to turn his 13-year-old into a local pop star.
The autonomous and parallel section of the festival is being
organized by the Italian national films critics union (SNCCI).
In competition will also be DRIFT by Helena Wittmann
(Germany); LES GARÇONS SAUVAGES| THE WILD BOYS by Bertrand
Mandico (France); KÖRFEZ | THE GULF by Emre Yeksan
(co-production between Turkey, Germany and Greece); SARAH JOUE
UN LOUP GAROU | SARAH PLAYS A WEREWOLF by Katharina Wyss
(Switzerland and Germany); TEAM HURRICANE by Annika Berg
(Denmark) and TEMPORADA DE CAZA | HUNTING SEASON by Natalia
Garagiola (Argentina, the US, Germany, France and Qatar).
The opening film will be PIN CUSHION by Deborah Haywood (UK)
and the closing one will be VELENO by Diego Olivares (Italy).
The image used for this year's edition is by the artist
Carmine di Giandomenico, whose work is used by both DC Comics
and Marvel.
The Short Italian Cinema @Settimana Internazionale della
Critica (SIC@SIC) this year also offers a selection of seven
short films by Italian directors that have not yet made a
feature film and two special events, all presented in a world
premiere.
The section's artistic director Giona Nazzaro said that 'The
Crater' "plays on the ambiguity between documentary, realism and
neorealism. It is an important film in the panorama or Italian
cinema."
Nazzari added that LES GARÇONS SAUVAGES| THE WILD BOYS by
Bertrand Mandico "is our scandalous film. It is, among other
things, by a director that loves Bava and Fassbinder. And in his
film, people change gender and do various things. And everything
in this film is shot in black and white."
On the five women in competition, the festival's director
underscored that "perhaps this is due to the fact that women
today have lighter 'baggage'. When they shoot films, they don't
think about the most important directors in history. They make
films that are more sensual and erotic".
This year's selection includes 459 films and 110 short films.
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