- Settimana Internazionale della Critica di Venezia

Venice
August 31 – September 10, 2016
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Italian National Union of Film Critics (SNCCI)
President: Franco Montini
Istituto Luce Cinecittà
President: Roberto Cicutto
la Biennale di Venezia
President: Paolo Baratta
73. Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia
Director: Alberto Barbera
SIC@SIC
August 31 – September 10 2016
Selection Committee 31.SIC
Giona A. Nazzaro (General Delegate)
Luigi Abiusi | Alberto Anile | Beatrice Fiorentino | Massimo Tria
Istituto Luce Cinecittà – Promotion of Contemporary Cinema
Carla Cattani
SIC@SIC Coordination
Eddie Bertozzi | Anette Dujisin-Muharay (SIC)
[email protected] – P. 041 2726679
Giovanni Marco Piemontese (Istituto Luce Cinecittà)
[email protected] – P. 06 72286442
Press Office SIC
Gabriele Barcaro
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Press Office Istituto Luce Cinecittà
Marlon Pellegrini
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31. Venice International Film Critics’ Week
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present
The seven Italian shorts are:
Alice by Chiara Leonardi
Italy, 2016 – World Premiere
Atlante 1783 (Atlas 1783) by Maria Giovanna Cicciari
Italy, 2016 – World Premiere
Colazione sull’erba (Luncheon on the Grass ) by Edoardo Ferraro
Italy, 2016 – World Premiere
Dodici pagine (twelve pages) by Riccardo Caruso, Roberto Tenace,
Luigi Lombardi, Elisabetta Falanga
Italy, 2016 – World Premiere
Era ieri (It Was Yesterday ) by Valentina Pedicini
Italy, 2016 – World Premiere
Notturno (Nocturne) by Fatima Bianchi
Italy, 2016 – World Premiere
Vanilla by Rossella Inglese
Italy, 2016 – World Premiere
Special Event – Opening Short
Pagliacci (Clowns) by Marco Bellocchio
Italy, 2016 – World Premiere
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31. Venice International Film Critics’ Week
and Istituto Luce Cinecittà
present
the program of
SIC@SIC – Short Italian Cinema @ Settimana Internazionale della Critica
SIC, 31 + 1. Another sign of continuity and of an even stronger commitment towards Italian
cinema. A synergy with an important partner such as Instituto Luce Cinecittà, and a mission: to
look for the Italian cinema of tomorrow. Facing a multiplication of places and modes of
production, the most innovative and passionate Italian cinema exists in trajectories that are
dictated by a vortex that redesign this panorama. By probing the transformation of young Italian
productions, we found new territories and horizons of a cinema without melancholy and
inferiority complexes. Very young authors who are able to move along the entire expressive
spectrum of contemporary cinema. Fiction, documentary, essay films, experimentation and
beyond. A panorama of enthusiastic possibilities where the only rules are talent and creativity. A
bet that offers one certainity: identifying today the authors of tomorrow’s Italian cinema.
From the ghostly family diaries of Alice to the sentimental topography of Atlante 1783, going
through the coming of age of Era ieri, the fantastic fabulation of dodici pagine, the ‘dejeuner sur
l’herbe stoner’ of Colazione sull’erba, arriving to the lyric abstraction of Notturno and the
discovery of another eros by Vanilla; the seven selected shorts offer themselves as a position
taking, formal and creative, of great importance.
Sposoring the birth of Sic@Sic, is the new short-film by Marco Bellocchio, Pagliacci, directed by
the Maestro together with the students of the workshop Fare cinema in Bibbio, that has taken
place for the past twenty years. Pagliacci, a surprising and enthusiastic film interpreted by the
late Lucia Ragni, is a landmark that allows us to observe Bellocchio’s cinema through a new
angle, and rethink its countless instinctive and insurrectional drives.
Between Marco Bellocchio and the young authors presented by Sic@Sic we create an ideal bridge
that allow us to think about Italian cinema as a dialogue between the urgency of a living
tradition and the imperatives of a future that is to be invented and played with entirely.
Giona A. Nazzaro
General Delegate – 31. Venice Internatioal Film Critics’ Week
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The distribution of first and second features is one of the activities developed by Instituto Luce
Cineciettà. It is clear that this is a necessary activity in a panorama of distribution that is
characterized by a very strong commercial antagonism. Accompaning the films, there are waves
of new generations of authors that manage to affirm themselves: Sydney Sibilia, Piero Messina,
Laura Bispuri, Carlo Lavagna, Gabriele Mainetti… They play in all fronts: from box office to
festivals, to critics’ awards. What unites them is the story of their previous years, of how they got
to their first feature, of all the time spent trying to make themselves being noticed, before a
producer could manage in his turn to involve financers in their projects.
The collaboration of the Instituto Luce Cinecittà with the 31. Venice International Film Critics’
Week was born exactly from this need to promote young Italian authors who did not yet reached
the long feature film: seven short filmmakers will arrive to the 73. Mostra Internazionale di Arte
Cinematografica to make themselves be noticed to a national and international level.
The selection and programming of the shorts made by Critics’ Week, will then be promoted
abroad by the Instituto Luce Cinecittà in the various initiatives around the world that promote
Italian cinema. For these young filmmakers starts, or is confirmed, a voyage, an important
passage from promises to a real present.
Carla Cattani
Istituto Luce Cinecittà – Promotion of Contemporary Cinema
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ALICE
Italy, 2016, col., 14’
Director: Chiara Leonardi. Screenplay: Chiara Leonardi. Editing: Chiara Leonardi, Marco
Zanata. Sound: Marco Zanata. Cast: Francesca Leonardi, Sofia Leonardi, Chiara Leonardi,
Massimo Leonardi, Elena Bonati. Production: Chiara Leonardi.
Chiara was only 7-year-old when she started filming her family. She was 12 when she decided to
quit. That was the year when her older sister, Francesca, fell sick. It is then when the image of
the “perfect family” begins to break down, to disintegrate.
Chiara Leonardi was born in 1993. She graduated in Media Design and Multimedia Arts from
the New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, showing a considerable interest towards practices such
as found footage and film archive. After having worked in the field of commercial music for
Warner Music Italy, she directs her first short: the autobiographical Alice.
ATLANTE 1783 (Atlas 1783)
Italy, 2016, col., 20’
Director: Maria Giovanna Cicciari. Screenplay Maria Giovanna Cicciari. Cinematography:
Emanuele Spagnolo. Editing: Maria Giovanna Cicciari. Music: Davide Tidoni Production: Rino
Sciarretta (Zivago Media)
At the end of XVIII century a large part of Calabria, in southern Italy, was hit by a massive
earthquake. The memory of this event is made of concrete signs like the white scars on the
mountain ridges and the ruins of a town that over the centuries has gained a new life, but also
images and invisible presences that come back, intertwine and manifest themselves in different
ways.
Maria Giovanna Cicciari, born in Milano in 1983, shot several award winning shorts such as La
natura della cose (co-directed with Federico Chiari, awarded the In Prima Persona – Milano
Filmmaker Award in 2009), In nessun luogo resta (Special Jury Prize at the Torino Film Festival
in 2012, then included in the catalogue of the Collectif Jeune Cinéma of Paris) and Hyperion
(Filmmaker Festival and Sergio Amidei Award in 2014). Since 2013 she is collaborating with
Annamaria Ajmone in Radura, an experimental project between dance and cinema.
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COLAZIONE SULL’ERBA (Luncheon on the Grass)
Italy, 2016, col., 14’
Director: Edoardo Ferraro. Screenplay: Leonardo Accattoli, Edoardo Ferraro. Cinematography:
Vanni Mastrantonio. Editing: Julien Panzarasa. Sound: Carlo Purpura. Costumes: India
Graziosi. Music: Bernardo Bursill-Hall. Art direction: Sabina Angeloni, Giovanni Gervasi. Cast:
Riccardo Pandolfi (kid), Giacomo Bottoni (Sergio), Francesco Melchiorri (raver #1), Giorgia
Torregrossa (raver #2), Davide Dentamaro (raver #3). Production: Leonardo Accattoli (Dibbuk
Produzioni).
Somewhere in the woods in middle of Italy, a rave is taking place. A family of local farmers
barricades themselves in their house, but their curious little son escapes and follows three
young ravers headed to the party, looking for a lost friend.
Edoardo Ferraro was born in Macerata in 1989. After graduating in Literature and Philosophy
from the Catholic University of Brescia, he moves to Rome to study photography at the ACT
Multimedia. Later, he studies Film Directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia,
graduating in 2016 with the short film Né leggere né scrivere. He is collaborating with Dibbuk
Produzione, directing commercials and shorts.
DODICI PAGINE (Twelve Pages)
Italy, 2016, col., 13’
Director: Riccardo Caruso, Roberto Tenace, Luigi Lombardi, Elisabetta Falanga. Screenplay,
Cinematography, Editing, Sound, Art Direction, Costumes: Riccardo Caruso, Roberto Tenace,
Luigi Lombardi, Elisabetta Falanga. Cast: Vittoria Araldi (Pinuccia), Claudio Guain (narrator),
Davide Bellofiore (actor #1), Michele Galasso (actor #2). Production: Adriana Rebora, Claudio
Lombardi (Topotatolab).
Everything happens in a confined area: a theater built in a wintery piece of land. The space of
the story represents the memory of Pinuccia: a continuous influx of images where spaces vary in
the time of mental imagination. Holes dig in the earth that substitute rooms; improbable
transformations, mutating roles and characters. In this land of imagination it's easy to stumble,
to lose oneself, like Pinuccia, in a flux that has little logic or concreteness.
Riccardo Caruso, Roberto Tenace, Luigi Lombardi and Elisabetta Falanga work as a
collective since 2014. In 2015 they participated in the Torino Film Festival with their first short
film, La dolce casa, which won the Jury Prize in the Italiana Corti section.
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ERA IERI (It Was Yesterday)
Italy, 2016, col., 15’
Director: Valentina Pedicini. Screenplay: Francesca Manieri, Valentina Pedicini.
Cinematography: Jakob Stark. Editing: Luca Mandrile. Sound: Martin Fliri, Stefano Grosso.
Costumes: Carol Cordella. Cast: Giorgia Argese (Giò), Matteo De Vita (Matteo), Paola Re (Paola),
Samuel Lanzillotti (Samuel), Mario Critelli (Mario), Andrea Fiore (Andrea), Francesco Funedda
(Francesco). Production: Alfredo Covelli (Meproducodasolo). Executive Producer: Salvatore
Barbarossa. Co-production: Gianpaolo Smiraglia (Jump cut).
Giò is a 13-year-old girl living in Southern Italy. She is the head of a boys’ gang and is secretly in
love with the young Paola. To win her heart, Giò is even ready to compete with her male
opponents. Then, in the last day of summer, innocence ends.
Valentina Pedicini was born in Brindisi in 1978 and graduated in Film Directing from the
Scuola Zelig. Her documentaries include Mio sovversivo amor (2009), My Marlboro City (2010),
and the award-winning Dal profondo (2013). Era ieri is her debut in fiction filmmaking.
NOTTURNO (Nocturne)
Italy, 2016, col., 15’
Director: Fatima Bianchi. Screenplay: Fatima Bianchi. Cinematography: Fatima Bianchi.
Editing: Fatima Bianchi. Music: Fatima Bianchi. Sound: Fatima Bianchi, Nicola Ratti. Cast:
Claudia Consonni, Rosaria Girotti, Giovanna Gossi, Laura Morelli, Carmen La Corte, Elisabetta
Sisti, Florinda Trombetta; in collaboration with the Milan Institute for the Blind. Production:
Fatima Bianchi.
A group of blind women talk and tell stories, showing their own way of seeing through sensory
memory, singing and dreams: an imaginary landscape bordering darkness and reconstructed
through their voices.
Fatima Bianchi is a visual artist and filmmaker of creative documentary. She lives and works
between Milan and Marseille. Her research uses video through documentary and video
installation in situ. Since 2006 her works have been shown in many film festivals and art
galleries. Since 2010 she teaches multimedia editing at the NABA in Milan.
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VANILLA
Italy, 2016, col., 13’
Director: Rossella Inglese. Screenplay: Rossella Inglese. Cinematography: Andrea Benjamin
Manenti, Maria Vittoria De Lorenzis. Editing: Rossella Inglese, Filippo Patelli. Music: Sonatori
Fiorentini, Othello. Sound: Matteo Ortolani, Simone Sigon, Fabio Bruno. Art direction: Andrea
Benjamin Manenti. Costumes: Maria Vittoria De Lorenzis. Cast: Carolina Dovera (Denise),
Eriberto Peruzzo (Giacomo), Mariangela Di Paolo (social worker), Antonio Iurino (psychologist),
Oscar Genovese (Denise’s father). Production: Rossella Inglese, Andrea Benjamin Manenti
(Fedra Film). Co-production: Sae Institute Milano.
Denise is a teenager torn apart from the arms of her father, with whom she has a consensual
sexual relation. The girl is sent to a special center and given to the care of people who want to
protect her, despite she doesn't feel the need to. She closes herself up, knowing that she will
never be able to be understood.
Rossella Inglese graduated in Digital Filmmaking. In 2012 she founds the production company
Fedra Film and directs commercials and documentaries. In 2013, under the supervision of Mirco
Locatelli, she directs her first short, Sara, followed by Alternate World (2015) and Vanilla. At the
center of her shorts we find adolescent female characters who deal with their own sexuality.
Special Event – Opening Short
PAGLIACCI (Clowns)
Italy, 2016, col., 18’
Director: Marco Bellocchio. Screenplay: Marco Bellocchio. Cinematography: Daniele Ciprì.
Editing: Claudio Misantoni. Music: Andrea Farri. Sound: Riccardo Milano. Art Direction:
Eleonora Diana. Cast: Luca Ragni (mother), Luca Micheletti (son), Federica Fracassi (daughter),
Rebecca Liberati (Nedda), Corrado Invernizzi (Canio/mother’s friend), Mino Manni (hipnotizer)
Production: Kavac Film with Fare Cinema Associazione and Marco Bellocchio.
In the theater of a small village, rehersals are taking place for a show based on the opera I
Pagliacci. There is no orchestra, just a piano and the singers. Amongs the few people in the
audience there is the mother of the singer, a rich local lady and financer of the project, the
sister, and a few other people involved in the show. During a dinner party at this rich lady’s
house, a hiposis session takes place, where rancor and pain emerge from the brother and sister
towards their mother and their impossibility of overcoming them.
Marco Bellocchio was born in Piacenza in 1939. His debut film I pugni in tasca was awarded in
Locarno in 1965 and put him in the international spotlight. In 2011 he received the Golden Lion
for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice International Film Festival and in 2015 the Leopard of
Honour at the Locarno Film Festival. Since 2014 he is the president of the Cineteca di Bologna.
Retrospectives dedicated to his work were organized all over the world, amongst them one at
Moma in New York in 2015 and this year at the Festival Internacional du Film de la Rochelle.
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