The morning of Monday 17 June begins at Palazzo Gradari at 10:00 with an event EMERGENCYwith the projection of the reportage EMERGENCY in the Mediterranean Sea: Life Support on the Frontlines directed by the documentary maker Francesca Tosarelli and produced by Al Jazeera, followed by a talk with the director and Roberto MaccaroniClinical operations manager migration of EMERGENCY. “In the year in which EMERGENCY celebrates its 30th anniversary – he says Michela GrecoContents specialist – Events & Cinema of EMERGENCY – we renew our participation in the Pesaro International Film Festival for the fourth year with three contents – different in tone and language – which will allow people to learn about our search and rescue work in the Mediterranean with the ship Life Support. In a sea that continues to be a cemetery, with over 28 thousand people dead since 2014 (according to IOM data), EMERGENCY has not stood by and watched: in 19 missions it has rescued over 1,600 people who were in difficulty. To talk about this commitment, EMERGENCY brings the video to the exhibition Man overboard, a dystopian fairy tale created in collaboration with Ogilvy (and shown on Sunday 16 June); the reportage EMERGENCY in the Mediterranean Sea: Life Support on the Frontlines directed by the documentary maker Francesca Tosarelliin the presence of the director and Roberto MaccaroniClinical operations manager migrationof EMERGENCY and VR video The Life Support – The EMERGENCY ship, special screening in the new section Pesaro Nuovo Cinema Vr. An important possibility for EMERGENCY to communicate its work in defense of human rights to an increasingly wider audience, also through cinema”.
The morning continues with the presentation of “Cinemovel traveling with Io Capitano” promoted and presented by Elisabetta Antognoni and Nello Ferrierifounders of Cinemovel Foundation, an organization that has been operating since 2001 for the planning and sustainability of traveling cinema and social communication initiatives in Italy and abroad. From 15 to 27 April 2024, the Cinemovel caravan traveled around Senegal bringing the film “I Captain” to where the stories were born. The traveling cinema stopped in Pikine, Guédiawaye, Rufisque, Thiès, Mboro, Mérina Dakhar, Kolda, Sédhiou Ziguinchor, screening in schools, squares and youth centres. A journey of 2,316 kilometers through stories of migration and hope. Together with Cinemovel, the director Matteo Garrone (who followed the first part of the caravan) and the actors Seydou Sarr, Moustapha Fall, Amath Diallo and the cultural mediator Mamadou Kouassi who with his story inspired part of the film and animated all the screenings involving the large audience. Some numbers: 9 stages, 11 screenings, 4,300 people who saw the film, more than 200 people picked up the microphone to ask questions, reflect, tell their story.
Finally, space for the presentation of one of the novelties of this 60th edition, the Pesaro New Cinema Vr in collaboration with the House of Emerging Technologies And Pesaro Italian Capital of Culture 2024. Curated by Simone Arcagni, it is an exhibition section dedicated to the most innovative works produced with Virtual Reality on display at the Casa delle Tecnologie Emergenti in Pesaro. The VR section can be visited upon reservation at the times indicated on the reference site.
At 3.00 pm at the Teatro Sperimentale, with the screening of I DON’T KNOW THE MEN OF THIS CITY the second special event of Italian cinema dedicated to Franco Maresco with the collaboration of Ila Palma and Dream Film. The retrospective will feature a selection of films by Franco Maresco, award-winning film and television director, screenwriter and editor, while the monograph published by Marsilio Editori will focus for the first time on his unreconciled and solitary cinema and will be edited by film critic Fulvio Baglivi, one of the authors of Fuori Orario on Rai 3. Maresco, will also be the protagonist of an exhibition at the Spazio Bianco, with video installations taken from the iconic satirical program CinicoTV which aired on Rai from 1992 to 1996.
Maresco commented on the event dedicated to him as follows: “I am truly very happy with the tribute that the Festival and the Artistic Director have decided to dedicate to me. There are many memories that bind me to Pesaro, among these one of the best of my directorial activity was the meeting with Marco Ferreri in the 1996 edition”.
Also at the Teatro Sperimentale, from 5pm, the international competition, the heart of the International New Cinema Exhibition, with titles from all over the world and the result of a long selection by the artistic director of the Exhibition Pedro Armocida, supported by Paola Cassano, Cecilia Ermini, Raffaele Meale, Stefano Miraglia and Federico Rossin, with the collaboration in the pre-selection of Carolina Guasina, Mariantonietta Losanno. The films will be judged by three different juries: the jury composed of students from universities throughout Italy with courses in cinema history and from the main film schools and fine arts academies; another professional with internationally renowned personalities – specifically, the producer and director from Spain Luis Minarro, Júlio Bressaneamong the most representative Brazilian authors and Myriam Mézières, French actress, author, director and singer, of Egyptian father and Czech mother considered a symbol of métissage; and, finally, the jury of the new SNCCI Italian Critics Award made up of critics from the National Union of Italian Film Critics – Emanuele Di Nicola, Arianna Vietina and Sarah Van Put.
These are the titles in competition presented on Monday in the presence of the directors:
v RADIANCE (Japan, 2023, 18′) by Shuhei Hatano
v BLACKOUT (Austria, 2023, 8′) by Martin Arnold
v TO BRASIL (Germany, 2023, 18’30”) by Ute Aurand
v GETTING SEED (Italy/Switzerland, 2024, 10′) by Anna Marziano
v TERMINAL ISLAND (USA, 2024, 13′) by Sam Drake
v SLOW SHIFT (USA/India, 2023, 14′) by Shambhavi Kaul
v SPARK FROM A FALLING STAR (USA, 2023, 21′) by Ross Meckfessel
v HERE WE ARE (Thailand, 2023, 19’40”) by Chanasorn Chaikitiporn
v SMALL HOURS OF THE NIGHT (Singapore, 2024, 103′) by Daniel Hui
At the same time, the first appointment with the women takes place at 3.30 pm in the Sala Pasolini History lessons edited by Federico Rossin who in this edition will focus on the topic Expanding Your Vision – Multiscreen films from the 1960s and 1970s.
In recent years there have been many digital restorations of multiscreen films from the 60s and 70s, bringing splendid films back to life that would otherwise have remained difficult to see. The section offers a small but significant selection of double or triple screening films designed to be dazzling audiovisual events, absolutely engaging for the public. The programming at Sala Pasolini, divided into three days, the first on Monday 17 June includes the screening of Surface Tension by William Raban (1974-76), Choke by David Crosswaite (1971), Mechanical Ballet by David Parsons (1975), Black TV by Aldo Tambellini (1964-1968), Berlin Horse by Malcolm Le Grice (1970).
Also in the Pasolini Hall, at 5.30 pm, the Super8 shooting workshopedited by Gianmarco Torri and Karianne Fiorini, with the filmmaker and curator with the filmmaker Jaap Pieters. The workshop – which will be held from Monday 17 June to Wednesday 19 June – will focus on the basic notions of shooting and development and on the creative possibilities of filming in Super 8, and involves the creation of a collective film shot by the participants with the guidance of Jaap Pieters. The workshop will end with the manual development of the films shot by the participants, thanks to the intervention of Livio Colombo, himself a filmmaker and Super 8 craftsman, who will also illustrate the principles and tools for film development. On the last day, the films made will be screened on film to the festival public, together with some Super 8 works by Jaap Pieters and Livio Colombo.
The afternoon of the little ones comes alive with the second appointment with the Circus edited by Giulietta Fara. At the Cinema Astra at 4 pm the educational workshop THE THIEVING MAGPIE LIKE YOU’VE NEVER HAVE NEVER… ANIMATED IT! with Giulia Bettiwhile at 6 pm there will be a screening of the animated film Sirocco et le Royaume des courants d’air by Benoît Chieux (distributed by Kinology). The film features two little sisters, Juliette and Carmen, aged 4 and 8 respectively. Their favorite book is “The Kingdom of the Winds” and one day they manage to find a secret passage that takes them directly into the world described by the story. Transformed into cats, the little sisters are immediately captured and imprisoned by the mayor of the Kingdom who separates them, giving Juliette to Selma, a singer with whom he is in love. The two girls are desperate and are looking for any way to reunite but only Selma’s help will be able to bring them together again. Now they must find a way to return to their world and regain human form. The only one who can do it is Sirocco, the feared Lord of Winds and Storms…
Among the most applauded protagonists of contemporary Italian cinema, Jasmine Trinca he will be the guest of honor of the evening in Piazza del Popolo at 9.30 pm where he will present the Italian premiere Maria Montessori – The nouvelle femme – directed by Léa Todorov and in Italian cinemas on 26 September with Wanted. Jasmine Trinca plays the role of the Italian pedagogist of Marche origins whose method is known throughout the world in a film, which will be screened for the first time in Italy on the big screen in Piazza del Popolo, on disabilities, differences and feminism all over beginning of the 20th century. The screening is preceded by the screening of ANOTHER STORY – Marco Mengoni feat. Franco 123 (Italy, 2023, 3’22”) by Giulio Rosati, one of the six video clips finalists and protagonists of the section Vedomusica chosen from the best 20 Italian video clips, defined and voted through a special social contest. The winner will be chosen by a professional jury composed of Fairy tale by Martino, Fabio Bobbio and Carlo Griseri.
Changing location, at 9.30pm at The Enchanted Sailorganized with the collaboration of the Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale, the cinema on the beach offers a tribute to Walter Chiari with the 35 mm projection of the film The reunion (Damiano Damiani 1963, 110′).
The evening continues to the rhythm of Wall of Soundat the stroke of midnight at Palazzo Gradari, with NAIP presenting and providing sound THE RIP-OFF (2024), unpublished medium-length film written and produced specifically for the Pesaro 2024 film festival by Michelangelo Mercuri (NAIP) and Mirko Bonezzi. The work passes through the various seasons of life that every living being has in common, such as loneliness, friendship, love, chaos until reaching the epilogue, not seen however as a sad or burdensome conclusion, but as a sort of cheating which is itself a rule of the game. The sounds like a narrative voice tell the image, energy and emotional phases of each part of the story.
