It won’t be an edition like the others, that of Pesaro Film Festival. In fact, it is the sixtieth anniversary milestone, combined with the coincidence with the role of Italian Capital of Culture 2024 for the city. Pesaro is one among the most important festivals in Italian film historyalways open to experimentation, comparison and debate.
The 2024 edition will be Also streaming on the MYmovies ONE platform until June 24thwhere those registered will find a selection of films from the rich program of the event, ranging from shorts to feature films as is the tradition of the festival, whose Pesaro Nuovo Cinema Competition makes no distinction between genres, techniques or duration. let’s begin come on three titles that we cannot miss.
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Among the most anticipated feature films, A Fidai film by the Palestinian director Kamal Aljafari is the most impactful: in fact it carries the weight of the real and the current, despite going back to the 1980s, with the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Aljafari makes extensive use of so-called “found footage”, archival materials, to reconstruct the story of the documents stolen by the Israeli army from the Palestine Research Center in Beirut. Cultural testimonies and therefore of Palestinian identity, the lack of which the director today wants to balance in a film that tells about himself and talks about memory, resistance and sabotage of the status quo.
