Sixty titles on scheduling, the best from the most recent independent cinema releases, documentaries, shorts and full-length movies, many guests, meetings with the audience, exhibitions, workshops and masterclasses: all this is "Tekfestival - At the Border of the World... inside the West” from the 6th to the 13th of May 2010.

Among screenings, “collateral” events and numerous meetings with filmmakers, also two masterclasses and a workshop are scheduled for this edition of Tekfestival.

Special events

Five titles from the best world international production (Italian or regional premiere of films already awarded or acclaimed abroad), generally will be introduced to the audience by directors. This will include: The Yes Men fix the World, the 2009 longawaited full-length film that also won the Audience Award at the recent Berlinale. It's a pure hymn to the power of satire, a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations as Exxon and Halliburton, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world's most outrageous pranks; another Italian premiere for the pluriawarded Australian film Samson and Delilah by Warwick Thornton (Caméra d'or at Cannes 2009): two teenagers from a small community of natives in the deep Central Australian desert, the world outside, a journey, their love; the eagerlyawaited regional preview of Zanzibar by Monica Pietrangeli and Francesca Manieri (2009), a documentary that brings the first Rome's lesbian bar back to life thanks to precious archive materials and video-interviews with the original protagonists at that time; then the European preview of Cellar by the versatile director Steve Staso, hosted by Tekfestival. The film follows the lives of three immigrants, Wael, a Lebanese cook, Luz, a Colombian manicure, and Syl, a green building maintenance engineer. Three invisible stories of immigration from the metropolitan fabric of New York, doomed to shape one another. The Italian preview Terras by Maya Da-Rin. Following the ordinary events and the costant come and go of people along the border, Terras portrays the influence of the frontier on the lives of its inhabitants.

Sections

• Landscapes
• Focus on Nicolas Winding Refn
• Tequila Sunrise. Waiting for the Revolution
• Italian Doc Competition
• Screening on Women's Cinema
• Agender

Master Class: Nicolas Winding Refn

Nicolas Winding Refn, one of the most important Danish director, whom a focus will be dedicated to during the festival, will illustrate during a free-entry meeting his own way of approaching to cinema, his artistic aims, and questions about movies' production and realization (scheduled on Sunday the 9th of May).

Master Class: Marina Grzinic

Slovenian video artist and theorist Marina Grzinic, already on the scene since the '80s, will lead instead the audience back in the past through a virtual journey that will keep together feminism, video-art and the socialist lands' economic transition from communism to global capitalism (scheduled on the 8th of May).

Workshop about MEDIA 2007

Last but not least an informative workshop about MEDIA 2007 in collaboration with Media Desk Italia. MEDIA 2007 is the main communitarian supporting programme for European audio-visual industry and for everyone active in the area of multimedia.