LANDSCAPES

This year again we entrust the section Panorama/Landscapes with the role of putting in scene the best of the latest national and international production. A long journey which will let us move and explore many and sometimes unheard-of places: settings of fierce conflicts or rooms for a keen critic to the society, poetic glances to realities difficult to be understood or some steps along uneven lands. Pathways moving in geographic places far each other and throughout different themes, yet sharing the effort of giving through the cinema new possibilities of reading the world around us and cinema itself. During this fourth section we come back to some theme dear to our history, but with new instruments.
Many titles about to the Middle Est as the restrospective dedicated to the Egyptian director Yousry Nasrallah (with, among the others, the visionary La Porte du Soleil) and the works dedicated to the Israelian Palestinian conflicts. This year we have tried to privilege some aspects usually less spoken of: as an example, through the Channels of rage, by Anat Halachmi, we will follow the interweaving betweeen music -in particular the emergent hip-hop- and the war.
Then we come back to Latin America, with the intense Relatos desde el Encierro by Guadalupe Miranda. A scupulous sight into the women jail of Jalisco (Mexico). On Argentina during the seventhies focuses Los Perros - made by the young director Adrian Jaime - rich of inventory images and forgotten histories documentary. The occupation again this year. We cannot avoid to pay homage to maybe the most harsh work controversy of the latest years, that is Melfi, giving room to Appunti per un film sulla lotta di Melfi by Stefano Consiglio.
At the same time, in this edition we venture in new fields; we will explore the history and the nowadays reality of European East, with a rich section of documentaries made by emerging Poland authors and with Children of the Decree by Florin Lepan who ventures into the demographic policy at the time of Ceaucescu. We will move towards the section Independent Day, which shows the manifold ways through which the American independent art director “new school” looks at its country and shows it. This year the usual attention paid to the identity of gender takes on an eccentric and radical look with a succeeding of desecrating production by lesbian authress. To continue, we could not miss a trip through the productions which have faced the war in Iraq, of which they reveal some aspectc unpleasant to the media. The Middle East we put on scene is not merely that of the oil war, it is also a country full with hardened art directors, with all kind of jobs around making cinema, with the persistance in imaging and involving the audience: these are the images we have chosen to open the festival, thanks to Trial.
To conclude, the section Panorami will trodd several thematic paths, most of which are made thanks to the collaboration and partecipation of many people. About all of them you can find echoes in the following pages.

Thanks to every one .....