A tribute to Federico Fellini in the centenary of his birth between shows and projections
Lucca Film Festival e Europa Cinema from 25th September to 4th October
Confirmed the event’s dates, it will take place in a hybrid form spread in the city between real and virtual appointments
Lucca Film Festival and Europa Cinema, one of the flagship events of the Foundation Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca, will take place from 25th September to 4th October between Lucca and Viareggio: the dates of the international cinema's event that has been postponed in autumn due to sanitary international emergency, have been confirmed.
It will be a widespread festival in hybrid form, free entrance, with both virtual and real appointments in several city's areas, projections, “digital” meetings and live events as Effetto Cinema Notte, with respect for security norms and with modalities that are going to be announced in September.
“In order to simplify the access to the Festival in total safety – points out Nicola Borrelli, who is the President of the event - we have imagined to use the city's squares, as San Martino square, cinemas with social distancing and obligatory reservation, but also a virtual space dedicated to projections and meetings. This year's Festival is a way to benefit freely of the cinematographic culture and to face up sanitary emergency. For this reason almost all events are going to be free entrance or free donation, with charity target”.
The Tribute of 2020's edition is dedicated to Federico Fellini, the great Italian director, on the occasion of one hundred years from his birth among projections, shows and musical events. In addition to the manifesto of the Festival, dedicated to the great Italian director, already announced by the organizers, among other live events there will be a concert in San Francesco Church on the music of Nino Rota compositor, the nearest music collaborator to the director. The concert will be edited by the Musical Association “Sinfonia” (made by more than 50 elements), directed for the occasion by the compositor and master musicist Mauro Fabbri (already stable director at Helsinki and Stralsund's theaters ) at the Soirèe Concert for piano and orchestra (solo: M°Massimo Salotti).
During the whole festival, in the Giglio square, a “live mapping” will animate the front side of the historical Theater of Giglio curated by the artist Victor Valobonsi with the musical support of Federico De Robertis. Visual performance will give life to the great Italian cinema's icons that we have discovered in the masterpieces of Federico Fellini and Alberto Sordi. Sordi is tied up to a exhibition, dedicated to him, in the atelier Atelier Ricci with mostly unedited materials (texts and drafts of high documentary value), original posters of numerous films, joined by original painting which inspired them.
The rich programme of the Festival will be including the Competitions (12 feature length-films and more than 20 short films), and Italian premieres in order to “discover new talents in the film industry”. Competition films will be screened both in the theater and online on Più Compagnia, the virtual theater of the cinema La Compagnia. Also, the Italian premiere of Valley of the Gods by the Polish director Lech Majewski (present in Lucca) and played by Josh Hartnett and John Malkovich, will take place as part of the out-of-competition Premieres (the premiere section in the presence of directors).
Relevant attention will be given to documentaries with the screenings of Mr Wonderland by Valerio Ciriaci (USA, 2019), about the extraordinary story of Sylvester Z. Poli, an emigrant in the 1920s from Lucca to the USA and the most successful movie theaters owner of his time, as well as Pastrone by Lorenzo De Nicola, about Giovanni Pastrone, director of Italian silent film.
Among the synergistic collaborations, the one with Lucca 48 is noteworthy: it is a film festival where participants will be required to make a short film in 48 hours and the winners will be screened on the last day of the festival.
Lucca Film Festival e Europa Cinema
Lucca Film Festival e Europa Cinema, headed by Nicola Borrelli, has payed honor over the years to big names in the international film industry, such as Oliver Stone, David Lynch, Rutger Hauer, George Romero, Paolo Sorrentino and William Defoe. It is a yearly event celebrating and promoting film culture, that engages an audience bigger and bigger every year. It is one of the flagship events organized and supported by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio Lucca. Banca Generali Private and Banca Pictet are the Main Sponsors of the festival and the exhibitions are arranged with support from Societe Generale. What is more, the festival benefits from the support from Fondazione Banca del Monte in Lucca, Sofidel, ICare, Martinelli Luce, Wella, Lions Club Lucca Le Mura, Luccaorganizza, Il Ciocco S.p.A, Vinery Campo alle Comete, Ministry of Heritage and Culture and Tourism, Region Tuscany, Fondazione Sistema Toscana, Toscana Promozione, Municipality of Lucca, Municipality of Viareggio and from the partnership and co-production of Province of Lucca, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Italia, Giglio Theatre in Lucca, Fondazione Giacomo Puccini and Puccini Museum - Casa Natale, Fondazione Festival Pucciniano, Fondazione Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, University of Florence, Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, CNA Cinema e Audiovisivo Toscana, Luigi Boccherini High School and Arts High School Augusto Passaglia. We wish to thank for their collaboration also Federazione Italiana Teatro Amatori (FITA), A.C.S.I. Associazione Centri Sportivi Italiani (Italian Sports Center Association), Lucca Comics & Games, Regional Direction of Trenitalia, Unicoop Firenze, Confcommercio in the Provinces of Lucca e Massa Carrara, the Discipline dello Spettacolo e della Comunicazione degree programme of the Department of Humanities at the University of Pisa and Photolux Festival.