As in the past, we will be showing Italian Doc Competition and Special Events as part of a program made of different sections, which places recent films and documentaries next to Focus and Tributes.

The usual appointment with the Italian Doc Competition is devoted to new and emerging directors. We will be presenting 10 different titles completed by Zoom it, in order to take a look at the most recent Italian productions. Several authors who are well-known to the festival and its public, such as the Fluid Video Crew, Daniele Gaglianone, César Meneghetti and Cane CapoVolto, will be present.

The Special Events section will host Maria Martinelli’s ans Somona Cocozza's Over the rainbow , which will also be a part of the festival’s opening; Luca Gasparini’s and Alberto Masi’s Uso improprio and Gitmek: My Marlon and Brando by Turkish director Huseyin Karabey, Ein Traum in Erdbeerfolie by German director Marco Wilms, Diorthosi by Greek director Thanos Anastopoulos.

To mark the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we are renovating our cooperation with the Goethe Institut in Rome with 1989-2009 The memory of the present is vision , 5 movies which focus on the historical watershed preceding and following the dissolution of the DDR: Wie Feuer und Flamme, Der Rote Kakadu, Ein Blick, Fernsehgrüsse von West nach Ost, Go Traby Go!

The Screening on Women's Cinema is devoted to the writer and director Helke Sander, one of the main representatives of the German and European feminist movements. We will be showing three of her movies: Eine Prämie für Irene, BeFreier und Befreite e Die allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit - Redupers, all important expressions of her political and cinematographic engagement.

Together with the section devoted to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dangerously at East proposes an ironic and unsettling reflection coming from Eastern European cinematography: Mao ce dun, Stolen Rhythm (Hipi hopi) and The world is big and the Salvation lurks around the corner.

Agender takes up where Phag off left and proposes three thematic subsections (Bears on Film, Agenderphobia, Emoporn), border relections and practices concerning body politics. This section’s main movie is Chuecatown, a Spanish noir comedy inspired by Almodovar, which denounces the process of gentrification of Madrid’s neighborhood Chueca, seized by the gay community.

Wide Band explores the complex world of youth with two movies that are very different from each other but deal with two important themes: the dynamics inside Manila’s youth gangs (the Filippino Tribu) and the existential struggles of a young professor in his attempt to deal with ‘adult’ life (Half Nelson by American director Rian Fleck).

Finally, International Landscapes : Avi Mograbi’s Z 32 and Ulrike Ramlow's, Rimonda Mansour's and Stephen Ramlow’s How far I can go, which focus on Palestine; Carmen meets Borat, in which director Mercedes Stalenhoef returns to the Romanian where the film Borat has been shot and tells its unaware inhabitants that 20th Century Focus has made fun of them; the 16mm films realized by Naomi Uman, an experimental director of Ukrainian origins who lives and works in the United States and who presents an intimate and at times artisanal work on images, which resonates with her family memories; Kim Ragusa, an African-Italo-American writer and director from New York, who works on issues of identity and on her personal and complex roots and of whom we will be showing Passing and Fuori/Outside; Sam Green’s The World's Largest Shopping Mall, Jared Katsiane’s Houna e Manny, Felipe Monsalve’s ¿Habran esperanzas? and Fyra Fruar och en Man, in which director  Nahid Persson tells the story of poligamy in an Iranian village by focusing on four women’s everyday lives.

Parallel to the festival, the former Serono factory, located in the neighborhood of Il Pigneto, will be hosting, Wall Action an exhibit of posters by Teresa Sdralevich, a graphic designer and illustrator from Milan who lives and works in Brussels. This is a selection of affiches about political and social subjects, realized in collaboration with public agencies and institutions, non-profit organizations, cultural associations, advertising and denunciation campaigns. Teresa Sdralevich’s graphics attack public spaces leaving permanent traces, through an essential and visually impacting art. At the Space for new visions at Cinema Nuovo Aquila, it will be exhibited Videocabine by César Meneghetti.

We would like to end this introduction by telling you that, despite all of its hardships, this year Tekfestival will be expanding: besides taking place in Rome, on May 12th and 13th the festival will be hosted by the evocative Spazio Zip in Frascati. This continues our close and long-lasting relationship with the association Semintesta, a passionate promulgator of culture in and around Frascati, and an irreplaceable support for Tekfestival.

We hope you will enjoy the Festival!