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WEDNESDAY, 13.06.2007

21.30 – Lungolago Adolfo Pini, garden in front of Villa Palazzola
(in case of rain, the screening will take place at the Regina Palace Hotel)
Cervino 1901 by Anonymous - Switzerland, 1901  (9')
Cervino 1911 by Mario Piacenza - Italy, 1911  (12', Italian intertitles)
Silent films, with live music accompaniment by Enrico Coniglio & Guido Marzorati ensemble "Soundscapes"
to follow: La Grande Conquista (Der Berg Ruft) by Luis Trenker -Germany, 1937  (87', Italian version)

Carlo Montanaro (Professor, Accademia delle Belle Arti and Università Ca' Foscari, Venice; Member of the Board of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival) will introduce the screenings.
In collaboration with Museo Nazionale della Montagna di Torino

THURSDAY, 14.06.2007

16.00, Regina Palace Hotel – Sala Tiffany
Dschoint Ventschr Retrospective
Babami Hirsizlar Caldi(The Stolen Father) by Esen Isik – Switzerland, 1998 (24’, Turkish version with English subtitles)
Miel et Cendres by Nadia Fares – Switzerland /Tunisia, 1996 (80’, French/Arabic version with English subtitles)

18.00, Regina Palace Hotel – Sala Tiffany
Apneadi Roberto Dordit – Italy, 2005 (93’ – Italian version with English subtitles)

21.30 – Lungolago Adolfo Pini, garden in front of Villa Palazzola
(in case of rain, the screening will take place at the Regina Palace Hotel)
Bad Trip to Mars by Fulvio Bernasconi - Switzerland, 1996  (18', English/French version with French subtitles)
Waalo Fendo – Là où la terre gèle by Mohammed Soudani - Switzerland, 1997  (63', Wolof/French/Italian version with Italian subtitles)

The director of “Waalo Fendo” Mohammed Soudani and the producer Tiziana Soudani will introduce the film.
In collaboration with International Film Festival Locarno. Special guest: a delegate from Locarno’s Programming Office.

FRIDAY, 15.06.2007

16.30, Regina Palace Hotel – Sala Tiffany
La vera leggenda di Tony Vilar by Giuseppe Gagliardi – Italy, 2006 (92', Italian version)

The director Giuseppe Gagliardi will introduce the film

18.30, Regina Palace Hotel – Sala Tiffany
Marmoreraby Markus Fischer – Switzerland, 2006 (97’, Swiss-German/German/Raeto-Romance version with English subtitles)

The director Markus Fischer will introduce the film.

21.30 – Lungolago Adolfo Pini, garden in front of Villa Palazzola
(in case of rain, the screening will take place at the Regina Palace Hotel)
Dschoint Ventschr Retrospective
La eta knabinoby Samir – Switzerland, 1997 (8’, Esperanto version with English subtitles)
Das Fräulein by Andrea Staka - Switzerland/Germany, 2006  (81', Swiss-German/German/Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian version with Italian subtitles)    
Awarded Golden Leopard in Locarno 2006

The producer and Dschoint Ventsch co-founder Samir will introduce the screenings

21.30 – Lungolago Adolfo Pini, garden in front of Villa Palazzola
(in case of rain, the screening will take place at the Regina Palace Hotel)
Horror Night: Padiglione 22 by Livio Bordone - Italy, 2006  (74', Italian version)

The director Livio Bordone and the leading actress Regina Orioli will introduce the film

SATURDAY, 16.06.2007

14.30, Regina Palace Hotel – Sala Tiffany
La vraie vie est ailleursby Frédéric Choffat – Switzerland, 2006 (84’, French version with English subtitles)

16.15, Regina Palace Hotel – Sala Tiffany
La rieducazioneby Amanda Flor – Italy, 2006 (96’, Italian version)

The collective Amanda Flor will introduce the film

18.00, Regina Palace Hotel – Sala Tiffany
Dschoint Ventschr Retrospective
Summertimeby Ana Luif – Switzerland, 2000 (27’, Swiss-German version with English subtitles)
Gambit by Sabine Gisiger – Switzerland/Germany, 2005 (107’, Swiss-German/German/English/Italian version with Italian subtitles)

19.00, Isola Bella
FLUID, international event of Video Art; coordinated by Viviana Checchia
Works by Citrullo International and Studio Brutus, Xavier Gavin, Mit Borras, Ruggero Maggi, Ruggero Mantovani and Graziano Staino.

The curator Viviana Checchia and the artists will be present

(The exhibition will be open to the public from 13.06.2007 to 17.6.2007. For visits, please contact Mr. Giampiero Zanzi at Ristorante Hotel Elvezia – Ph. +39 0323 30043)

SUNDAY 17.06.2007

14.30, Regina Palace Hotel – Sala Tiffany
Dschoint Ventschr Retrospective
Paistry, Pain and Politics by Stina Werenfels – Switzerland, 1998 (30’, Yiddish/English/Swiss-German version with English subtitles)
Nachbeben (Going Private) by Stina Werenfels – Switzerland, 2006 (96’,  Swiss-German/ English with English subtitles)

The director Stina Werenfels will introduce the films

16.45, Regina Palace Hotel – Sala Tiffany
7/8by Stefano Landini - Italy, 2007 (73' – Italian version)

The director Stefano Landini will introduce the film

18.15, Regina Palace Hotel – Sala Tiffany
Il pugno di Gesùby Stefan Jäger – Switzerland/Italy, 2007 (91’, Italian version with English subtitles)

The director Stefan Jäger and the leading actors Claudio Caiolo and Carlo Monni will introduce the film

21.00, Regina Palace Hotel – Sala Tiffany
Closing event – Tribute to Luigi Comencini
Il museo dei sogni by Luigi Comencini - Italy, 1949 (12', Italian version)
Son tornata per te (Heidi) by Luigi Comencini  - Switzerland, 1952 (100', Italian version)

Before the screening, the Comencini family will be awarded the Cigno d’Oro for their overall contribution to Italian cinema. Special guest: Luisa Comencini, niece of Luigi Comencini and director of the Cineteca Italiana.

Gino Buscaglia, RTSI’s cinema critic and journalist, will introduce the screenings.
In collaboration with Museo Nazionale della Montagna di Torino and Fondazione Cineteca Italiana

2006 EDITION PROGRAMME

FRIDAY, 23.06.2006

- H. 14:30, Regina Palace Hotel – Sala Tiffany
Vogelpredigt by Clemens Klopfenstein – Switzerland, 2005 (88’, Swiss German version with Italian subtitles)
Two aging actors look up the director of their last successful film, who drags them into his new project – a religious film on the life of Saint Francis… A witful satire on Swiss cinema.
The Director Clemens Klopfenstein will introduce the film.

- H. 16:30, Regina Palace Hotel – Sala Tiffany
Hans by Louis Nero – Italy, 2005 (98’, Italian version with English subtitles)
Hans works in a waste disposal factory. Troubled by a difficult childhood, he deludes himself into believing that society plots against him and will force him to feed on waste.
The Director Louis Nero will introduce the screening.

- H. 18:45, Verbano Yacht Club (via Sempione 68, Carciano di Stresa)
Cocktail party and press conference

- H. 21:30, Villa Ducale
La Vocation d’André Carel by Jean Choux – Switzerland, 1925 (94’, French intertitles) Silent film, with live music comment by Enrico Coniglio & Guido Marzorati ensemble “Soundscapes”.
André Carel’s artistic and emotional vicissitudes unfold on the shores of the Geneva Lake as he escapes his tutor and encounters a mysterious girl…
Reto Kromer (curator of the restoration of the film) and Carlo Montanaro (Professor, Accademia delle Belle Arti and Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice; Member of the Board of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival) will introduce the screening

SATURDAY, 24.06.2006

Professional Forum – Spotlight on Italian and Swiss cinema, in collaboration with AntennaMEDIA Torino. A series of roundtables will bring together distinguished experts for an exchange on the process of filmmaking in both countries.

- H. 10:15-18:00, Regina Palace Hotel – Sala Gardenia
Morning session – Scriptwriting and Film Schools
• H. 10:15: Opening remarks
• H. 10:30-13:00: Roundtable on scriptwriting and film schools. Speakers: Stefano Boccardo (FERT Society, Turin); Cecilia Liveriero Lavelli (CISA, Lugano); ArmandoFumagalli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan); Lucie Bader Egloff (Hochschüle für Gestaltung und Kunst, Zurich); Tina Porcelli (Istituto Europeo per il Design e le Arti Visive, Milan). Moderator: Bruno Fornara (Scuola Holden, Turin).
Representatives of the major Italian and Swiss film schools are invited to present the structure and aims of their institution in order to discuss different approaches to scriptwriting. In particular, the presence of different theoretical and practical/professional approaches and their outcomes in the actual process of filmmaking will be the focus of the discussion.
Afternoon session – Production, distribution & TV acquisition, fundings
• H. 15:00-16:00: Roundtable on filmmaking and production. Speakers: Italian directors Davide Ferrario, Louis Nero, Lorenzo Bianchini and Swiss producers Tiziana Soudani (AMKA Films) and Elda Guidinetti (Ventura Film). Moderator:
Francisco Villa-Lobos (producer, Contracosta Produções/Rivolta Film).
How does the production process unfold in Switzerland and in Italy? Which are the actual possibilities of co-production? What is the role of the producer in both countries and how does independent filmmakers produce their own works? These are the major issues which will be addressed by a panel of international producers and filmmakers working in different contexts in Switzerland and Italy.
• H. 16.00-17.00: Roundtable on distribution and TV film acquisition. Speakers:
Federico Jolli (Swiss TV channel RTSI – documentary production), Fabrizio Liberti (Italian public TV channel RAI Uno – film acquisition).
Representatives of Italian and Swiss TV stations as well as distributors will discuss the current policies and practices of film acquisition and broadcasting.
• Ore 17.00-17.30: Presentation of Media Plus (2001–2006) – EU Programme insupport of audiovisual development and outlines of the new structure of the MEDIA Programme (2007-2013): MEDIA 2007, by Antenna MEDIA Torino.

Screenings
- H. 14:15, Regina Palace Hotel – Sala Tiffany
Im Nordwind by Bettina Oberli – Switzerland, 2004 (93', Swiss German version with English subtitles)
The harsh rules of the New Economy dramatically impact on the routine of a bourgeois family in a quiet Swiss town. Stability and financial safety are put into question even when and where less expected …

- H. 16:00, Regina Palace Hotel – Sala Tiffany
Film sporco by Lorenzo Bianchini – Italy, 2005 (90', Italian version)
The night adventure of four young drug dealers heading to a business meeting turns into a a sort of treasure hunt with forced and fatal destinations.
Followed by I dincj de lune by Lorenzo Bianchini – Italy, 1999 (41', Dialect with Italian subtitles)
A young researcher arrives at a mountain village to investigate on an old legend which tells the existence of a werewolf in the full moon nights.
The Director Lorenzo Bianchini will introduce the screenings.

- H. 19:00, Isola Bella
“Affabula Readings”: La bicicletta di Leonardo by Leonardo Randazzo
Live reading of film scripts by FERT Society, Turin.

- H. 21:30, Villa Ducale
Outdoor screening - Italian première of Mein Name ist Eugen by Michael Steiner – Switzerland, 2005 (97', Swiss German version with English subtitles).
Throughout Switzerland, a bunch of kids on their bikes escape their families in search of Fritzli Bühler, a sort of mythical figure known as the “king of rascals”, who can save them from entering college and provide them with a taste of real adventure…
The Director Michael Steiner and the producer Bruno Seemann will introduce the screening.

SUNDAY, 25.06.2006
- H. 14:30, Regina Palace Hotel – Sala Tiffany
Absolut by Romed Wyder – Switzerland, 2004 (92', French version with Italian subtitles)
What if one day two hackers uploaded a virus into the electronic system of a financial network? And what if on the same day one of the two had a strange accident causing him a loss of short-term memory?

- H. 16:30, Regina Palace Hotel – Sala Tiffany
Onde by Francesco Fei – Italy, 2005 (92', Italian version)
Mixing reality, dreams and memories, Onde tells the complex love-story between Francesca, a girl with a purple birthmark on her face, and Luca, a young blind musician, along the twist and turns of Genova’s narrow alleys.
The Director Francesco Fei will introduce the screening.

- H. 18:30, Regina Palace Hotel – Sala Tiffany
Strähl by Manuel Flurin Hendry – Switzerland, 2004 (97', Swiss German version with English subtitles)
Detective Herbert Strähl, a difficult character of the Zurich narcotic squad, seeks a difficult reconciliation which will force him into an unsuspected alliance.

- Ore 21.30, Regina Palace Hotel – Sala Tiffany
Closing event - Tribute to Piero Chiara: screening of La stanza del vescovo by Dino Risi – Italy, 1977 (110’, Italian version). Sponsored by Astra Spa – Arona.
The daily routine of a wealthy family living on the quiet shores of Lake Maggiore is shaken by the arrival of young Marco Maffei. Based on Piero Chiara’s novel, the sumptuous mise-en-scène of the film finds its ideal setting in Stresa.
Stefano della Casa (Director of Torino Piemonte Film Commission) will introduce the screening
Info:
Free entrance with accreditation badge.
The badge can be obtained at all festival sites free of charge.
In case of bad weather, the outdoor screening at the Villa Ducale will take place at the nearby