The Working Title Film Festival returns to Vicenza: Festival of Cinema of Work.
The appointment with returns to Vicenza the “Working Title Film Festival – Festival del cinema del lavoro”, now in its seventh edition, from Monday 11th to Saturday 16th November, with a preview event on Thursday 7th: the locations that will host the screenings and debates of the event, promoted by the association Laboratorio dell'inchiesta economica e sociale Aps, with the artistic direction of Marina Resta, are the Cinema Odeon, the cultural centre Caracol Olol Jackson and the Zerogloss design store.
Born in 2016, the festival confirms its thematic focus on work from a contemporary perspective: conflicts, technological innovations, changes, the relationship with society and the political and social context, both Italian and global. The three competition sections have also been confirmed for the seventh edition: Feature Films & Medium-Length Films, open to documentary, fiction and animated films on the theme of work with a minimum duration of 31 minutes; Short Films, open to documentary, fiction and animated films on the theme of work with a maximum duration of 30 minutes; ExtraWorks, open to hybrid, experimental, video art and video clips on the theme of work, with no limits on duration.
«Vicenza is a city where the world of culture and that of work intertwine – the words by the culture councillor Ilaria Fantin -. We can only be happy to host the Working Title Film Festival again. Also for this seventh edition, in fact, the program is full of events that will certainly attract the interest of film enthusiasts and not only».
«Working Title Film Festival has always been attentive to valorising independent productions, genres, formats and themes that struggle to emerge in mainstream circuits. - Explains the artistic director Marina Resta –. In this edition the origins are particularly varied: Central and South America with Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, Venezuela, Europe with Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Czech Republic and Serbia, and then Armenia, Egypt and the United States. We look forward to showing the public these works, selected not only for their originality and thematic relevance, but also and above all for the freshness of the gaze and the ability of the authors to experiment with the language, or rather the languages, of the audiovisual».
The program includes a section Industry, dedicated to professionals in the audiovisual sector, but also open to the public. The first meeting, a preview event of the festival, Thursday 7 November at 18 pm in the spaces of Zerogloss design store (Pasubio road 106/G) is on the theme "Video storytelling between art and business", with speakers Elena Agosti, curator of the A&D Artigianato e Design project, Youssef DaLima, founder and filmmaker of Onymous Studios, Andrea Santini, sound and new media artist, and Aldo Macchi, project manager of Doc Creativity communication professionals. The event is in collaboration with GoodJob! and CNA Veneto Ovest.
The second meeting, on Monday 11 November at 18pm at the Cinema Odeon (Corso Palladio 176), is on “Making independent cinema: models and opportunities”, with Ilaria Fantin, Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Vicenza, Jacopo Chessa, General Director of the Veneto Film Commission, Marta Melina, Producer SMK Factory and OpenDDB, Damiano Monaco, Director and producer Flash Future Film, and Marco Caberlotto, President of CNA Cinema and Audiovisual Veneto. The event is in collaboration with Doc Services and House of Popular Culture.
Among the 27 films in competition, there is a European preview and 11 Italian previews. Altamar (83′) by Costa Rican director Ernesto Jara Vargas, in European preview, is the opening film, Monday 11 at 21 pm at the Odeon. The documentary tells the story of a Costa Rican fisherman's life between weeks spent on the high seas and sporadic returns to his village on the mainland.
When We Fight (34′) by Americans Yael Bridge and Yoni Golijov, in Italian preview on November 12th at 21pm at the Odeon, It follows a major strike by more than 30 teachers that shut down California schools in 2019.
The short film Andy et Charlie (21′) by French Livia Lattanzio, in Italian preview on November 13th at 21pm at the Odeon, features two young women who perform on stage in erotic shows and who, over the course of a summer, reflect on their life choices and the power of their bodies.
Life is a game (60′) by Italians Luca Quagliato and Laura Carrer, on November 14th at 21pm at the Odeon, is an investigation into the work of riders with numerous international testimonies, which mixes the languages of documentary and animation.
Also an Italian preview is Working Class Goes To Hell (127′) by Serbian Mladen Djordjevic, scheduled for November 15th at 21pm at the Odeon Cinema: a corrosive satire that combines class struggle and the supernatural, flirting with the canons of the grotesque and horror.
Saturday 16th November will take place at the Caracol Olol Jackson (viale Crispi 46) and is dedicated to the films of the Extraworks section. Among these, we highlight, in Italian preview, Trust Exercises (25′), an experimental and video-dance film by the American director Sarah Friedland, recently awarded at the Venice Film Festival in the Orizzonti section for the feature film Familiar Touch (2024), which won the awards for best director, best actress and the Lion of the Future for best debut.
Working Title Film Festival 7 is promoted by the association Lies – Laboratorio dell'inchiesta economica e sociale Aps, in partnership with Cinema Odeon, Caracol Olol Jackson, DocServizi and Zerogloss; with the patronage and contribution of the Veneto Region and the Municipality of Vicenza; with the contribution of the Fondazione Monte di Pietà di Vicenza, Cgil Vicenza, Cisl Vicenza, Cisl Vicenza Servizi, CNA Veneto Ovest, A&D Artigianato e Design; technical partners: Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguisti di Vicenza e Rimini – FUSP, SHG Hotel de La Ville, Serimab, Rete Biblioteche Vicentine; media partner: Bookciak Magazine, GoodJob!, Cinematographe.it, VeZ – Veneto ecologia Z generation; in collaboration with Premio Bookciak, Azione!, Casa di Cultura Popolare, IIS Boscardin.
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