FLORENCE, ITALY – The largest film festival in Italy? It’s the 50 Days of International Cinema in Florence, which will take place this year from October 25 to December 14 at the Odeon Cinema in Florence. The mega program is composed of nine international festivals which are based in Florence, as well as reviews, previews, events and meetings with authors.
The idea for the festival was born in 2007 in order to boost, in terms of visibility and promotion, the major Florentine festivals which, joined together in a single program, have given life to a fall season of quality international cinema. The festival has evolved from simply a merging of smaller festivals, to finding a synergy, and this season celebrates its sixth year. The original features, innovative both in Italy and abroad, rich in content and ideas, have been maintained along with a respect for the individuality of each event.
The common denominators among the festivals have naturally emerged during the various editions of “50 Days”, and have become elements of continuity between them: Italian premiers of films; the predominance of real life cinema, in the wake of those films created in Florence since 1959, which will be exhibited in the Festival dei Popoli; opening horizons to countries and cultures of the world; looking towards European and world cinematography; drawing attention to gender diversity; changing the relationship between big-budget films, orientated towards glamour, and cultural initiatives, orientated more towards professionals and fans of cinematography, who see these films a learning experience and personal enrichment.
Each year the “50 Days of International Cinema in Florence” festival includes new events and new tiles which together make this film festival last an entire season. New this year is the “Balkan Express Florence” (26 to 29 November), which will offer a significant cross-section of films from the Balkan peninsula, an area close to Italy but which still does not carry out much trade with our country. The festival will show films from Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Albania.
Other confirmed events are the social cinema of “Cospe” (November 7) and the “Raccorti sociali” prize (December 16), as well as the day dedicated to African cinema, the “Kibaka Florence Festival” (November 20).
PROGRAMME:
25 – 31 October Florence Queer Festival
1 – 4 November France Odeon
5 – 6 November The myth of the American Indians from John Ford to Michael Mann
7 November Terra di Tutti Film Festival – COSPE
9 November TuTelArTe Prize
10 – 17 November Festival dei Popoli. International festival of documentary films
18 – 19 November Images and Sounds of the World. Etnomusicale Film Festival
20 November Kibaka Florence Festival
21 – 25 November Lo Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival
26 – 29 November Balkan Florence Express
30 November – 5 December Festival Internazionale di Cinema & Donne (the International Festival of Cinema and Women)
6 December The Second Life of Images. Mash-up in cinema.
7 – 13 December River to River Florence Indian Film Festival
14 December N.I.C.E. City of Florence Prize
14 December Cooperation in the heart of the Mediterranean. Prize for the Italy/France program “Marittimo 2007-2013”
16 December Raccorti Sociali Prize
For information: http://www.odeon.intoscana.it/
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