AWARD CEREMONY / EFEBO D’ORO LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENTS AWARD – BANCA SANT’ANGELO
TALK WITH MARIANNE BLICHER
TALK WITH SABRINA SARABI
TALK WITH FATIH AKIN
OPENING / EFEBO NEW LANGUAGES – CITY OF PALERMO AWARD
TALK WITH TIZZA COVI AND RAINER FRIMMEL
VERA
by
Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
Written by Tizza Covi / Photography Rainer Frimmel / Editing Tizza Covi / Starring Vera Gemma, Daniel De Palma, Sebastian Dascalu, Annamaria Ciancamerla, Walter Saabel / Produced by Vento Film
Austria/Italy, 2022 – 115’
V.O.
05.11.2022
20:30
Cinema De Seta
Efebo d'Oro New Languages
Vera lives in the shadow of her famous father. Tired of her superficial life and relationships, she drifts through Roman high society. When she injures a child in a traffic accident in the suburbs, she forms an intense relationship with an eight-year-old boy and his father. But soon she must realize that also in this world she is only an instrument for others.
DIRECTORS
Since 1996 Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel are working together in photography, theatre, and movie projects. In 2002 they founded their own film production company Vento Film to produce their films independently. They won several awards for their documentaries, including the Wolfgang Staudte Award at the Berlinale for Babooska. In 2007 they were honored with the “Österreichischen Förderungspreis für Filmkunst” and in 2013 with the “Österreichischen Kunstpreis für Filmkunst”.
LA PIVELLINA
LA PIVELLINA
by
Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
Written by Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel / Photography Rainer Frimmel / Editing Tizza Covi / Starring Patrizia Gerardi, Tairo Caroli, Asia Crippa, Walter Saabel / Produced by Rainer Frimmel
Austria/Italy, 2009 – 100’
V.O.
06.11.2022
18.30
Cinema De Seta
Efebo d'Oro New Languages
Abondoned in a park, the two-year- old girl Asia is found by Patti, a circus woman living with her husband Walter in a trailer park in San Basilio on the outskirts of Rome. With the help of Tairo, a teenager who lives with his grandma in an adjacent container, Patti starts to search for the girl’s mother and gives the girl a new home for an uncertain period of time. La Pivellina is a film about a cosmos of outcasts in present- day Italy: a moving tale of courage and discrimination, of loss and togetherness, a look behind the corrugated-iron fence of a gated community.
DIRECTORS
Since 1996 Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel are working together in photography, theatre, and movie projects. In 2002 they founded their own film production company Vento Film to produce their films independently. They won several awards for their documentaries, including the Wolfgang Staudte Award at the Berlinale for Babooska. In 2007 they were honored with the “Österreichischen Förderungspreis für Filmkunst” and in 2013 with the “Österreichischen Kunstpreis für Filmkunst”.
MR. UNIVERSO
MR. UNIVERSO
by
Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
Written by Tizza Covi / Photography Rainer Frimmel / Editing Tizza Covi / Starring Tairo Caroli, Arthur Robin, Wendy Weber / Produced by Rainer Frimmel
Austria/Italy, 2016 – 90’
V.O.
07.11.2022
22:30
Cinema De Seta
Efebo d'Oro New Languages
The young lion tamer Tairo is unhappy with his life. He uses the loss of his good luck charm as an excuse to travel across Italy looking for Arthur Robin, a former Mr Universe, who gave it to him a long time ago. Mr. Universo is a movie guided by rational and irrational forces.
DIRECTORS
Since 1996 Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel are working together in photography, theatre, and movie projects. In 2002 they founded their own film production company Vento Film to produce their films independently. They won several awards for their documentaries, including the Wolfgang Staudte Award at the Berlinale for Babooska. In 2007 they were honored with the “Österreichischen Förderungspreis für Filmkunst” and in 2013 with the “Österreichischen Kunstpreis für Filmkunst”.
ATLANTIDE
ATLANTIDE
by
Yuri Ancarani
Written by Yuri Ancarani / Photography Yuri Ancarani e Mauro Chiarello / Editing Yuri Ancarani e Yves Beloniak / Starring Daniele Barison, Maila Dabalà, Bianka Berenyi, Alberto Tedesco / Produced by Dugong Films e Rai Cinema
France/Italy/USA, 2021 – 104’
V.O.
09.11.2022
18:30
Cinema De Seta
Efebo Perspectives
Daniele, a young man, lives in Sant’Erasmo, one of the islands of the Venice lagoon. He lives by his wits and is maginalised also by his peers, who share an intensely entertaining life centred on the ‘barchino’’s religion, a worship practice aimed at transforming the traditional, small motor boats used in the lagoon into dangerous, missile-like, competition boats by engineering increasingly powerful engines. Daniele also dreams of having a record-hitting ‘barchino’. The degradation spoiling the relationships, environment, and the life of a drifting generation is analysed through the eyes of Venice’s timeless landscape. The point of no return is reached with a foolish, parallel story of a violent male initiation that is bound to fail, but explodes and pulls the ghost city into a psychedelic ruin.
DIRECTOR
Born in 1972, Yuri Ancarani is an Italian video-artist and director. His works are an everchanging mix of documentary, cinema and art, and the research behind them is often aimed at exploring the grey areas of daily life that the artist himself ventures to penetrate. His last feature film, Atlantide, filmed in the Venice lagoon was released in cinemas in 2021. It was selected to compete in the Horizon section of the 78th edition of the Venice Film Festival and as best documentary at the David di Donatello Awards in 2022.
