Pesaro Film Festival unveils 2022 competition lineup

Pesaro Film Festival 2022, or 58th Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, has announced lineup in the Competition “Pesaro Nuovo Cinema” section of 2022 festival, which takes place in Pesaro, Italy from June 18-25.

Founded in Pesaro in 1965 by Bruno Torri and Lino Micciché, the Pesaro International Festival of New Cinema (Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema) is one of the most important Italian film festivals.

The 58th edition of the Pesaro Film Festival opens with the Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which tells the story of Elliott, a boy who befriends an extraterrestrial dubbed E.T., who is left behind on Earth. Along with his friends and family, Elliott must find a way to help E.T. return home while avoiding the government. E.T. won 4 Oscars in the 55th Academy Awards on April 11, 1983, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.

The 2022 Pesaro International Festival of New Cinema presents 22 program sections:

• Opening Film: 40 years of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Competition “Pesaro Nuovo Cinema” – Lino Miccichè Award
• Special Event – Mario Martone
• Spazio Bianco Gallery: Mario Martone – Prologue / Film Flow
• Cinema in the Square
• La Vela Incantata Cinema at the Beach
• Focus Riccardo Giacconi
• Focus Anna Marziano
• Focus Salvi Vivancos – Super 8
• Centenary Mario Lodi
• Centenary Jonas Mekas
• “Io Scrivo Musica” – Tribute To Riz Ortolani
• Messa A Fuoco by Carloni-Franceschetti
• Lessons in Film History
• The Wall of Sound: XX
• Best In Shorts – Contemporary Italian Animation.  Focus On Claudia Muratori
• Vedomusica – Italian Music Videos
• Pesaro Film Festival Circus – Cinema For Kids
• (Re)Edit competition. Cinema Through Images
• Lino Miccichè Award for Young Film critics
• Special Screenings
• Matinée – A Coffee at the Astra Cinema

To see the complete festival programs in details, visit the official website of the festival.

Competition “Pesaro Nuovo Cinema”

A lineup of 16 movies have been selected to compete for the Lino Miccichè award in the Competition “Pesaro Nuovo Cinema” section of the 58th Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, or 2022 Pesaro Film Festival. The Lino Miccichè Award is a new competition section devoted to Lino Miccichè, the founder of the Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema. This competition section was created in the tradition of New Cinema in 2004 in order to present a selection of films coming from all over the world.

“Festina Lente” by Baya Medhaffar from France, Tunisia
Prayer doing nothing to their perdition, the traveler and his shadow make their way at the crossroads of images and voices encountered on the road that form and deform as they advance. So many apparitions that are each an opportunity to stop for a while, to take a look or to listen.

“A Weave of Light” (“Een Weefsel Van Licht”) by Bram Ruiter from Netherlands
Six individuals are asked what they imagine would be on an undeveloped super8 cartridge of unknown origin. Preoccupations with perception and being perceived, the infinite, that which does not exist (yet), and the limitations of visualizing imagination.

“La Nave” by Carlos Maria Romero from Colombia
Colombian artist Carlos Maria Romero translates the meaning and spirit of Carnival de Barranquilla during a year in which gatherings were forbidden.

“Staging Death” by Jan Soldat from Austria
Udo Kier dies his way through film history. He screams, falls, lies, is cut into pieces, shot or commits suicide. Again and again his empty gaze, again and again his rigid body. In 54 years as an actor, Udo Kier played in more than 170 feature films, 120 series episodes and 50 short films. More than 70 times Udo Kier tried to give an expression to dying and death. In Staging Death, these representations of death merge into a montage of the most diverse shots, film formats, special effects and sound designs.

“Les Images Qui Vont Suivre N’ont Jamais Existe” by Noé Grenier from France
The following footage never existed is a found-footage short based on a 35mm trailer of Jan de Bont’s action film Twister. It refers to an incident of collective hallucination of a screening that never took place: the May 22, 1996 screening of the same film at the Can-View Drive-In in southern Canada, canceled due to a tornado alert. However, according to the urban legend, the viewers actually watched the film until the crucial scene, in the middle of a storm. The director recreates in a subjective, fragmentary way, along the lines of avant-garde cinema, the memory of images never projected, never seen, ultimately never happened – and yet, eerily familiar.

“Language of Birds” (“Langue des Oiseaux”) by Érik Bullot from France
Composed of serious and funny musical scenes, an exploration of the virtues of translation and desire for communication between humans and birds. Told by a narrator from the future, after the sixth mass extinction, an observation of the attempts made to establish a possible exchange.

“G” by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola from Italy
“In this film, there are two characters who are never shown, or at least not in a conventional way: a father and a son. The title, G, is the initial of the father’s name. It works both as a fragment and as memory. In the film, shot in Mini-DV format, I try to expose the relationship between son and father, connecting two different worlds, with one linked to earthly aspects, and the other one to spiritual ones. The variations of light captured by the stretch of water and the camera offer the traces of an intimate and mysterious encounter. The titling of my films often involves the use of individual letters, but also of one or more graphic signs. The use of individual letters in the titling of my films does not necessarily designate a series. This also applies to G.” — Ignazio Fabio Mazzola

“Alizava” by Andrius Žemaitis from Lituania
This is a story about an orphan girl Alizava and her unfamiliar father, whose soul inhabits various things. In an abandoned mansion a childish ritual commences, erasing the line between the living and the dead. A silent dialogue between the girl and her father summons others. Who are they?

“All Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars” by Jennifer Rainsford from Sweden
With the 2011 Tsunami as a backdrop, “All Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars” is a staggering odyssey told as an essay on grief, and on how humans and nature rebuild after trauma. It moves from the shores of Japan where Sachiko, Yasu and Satoko try to find ways to accept their loss; via rarely seen places thousands of meters below the sea level where new life-forms thrive; to one of the Hawaiian islands where a group of volunteers gather to clean a beach from Japanese tsunami debris floating in from the Ocean.

“France” by Philip Cartelli, Mariangela Ciccarello from Greece, Italy, United States
“The four corners of the hexagon.” The film studies the essence, applications and appropriations of a well-known polygon by means of geometry, history and cinema. Polygons are everywhere, or rather, wherever a polygon is.

“Interspecies Architecture” by Mauricio Freyre from Peru, Taiwan, Spain
A journey in the forest near Taipei without a certain destination, a nomadic speculation on relationships and processes that occur between species and dimensions beyond the human.

“Natura Morta” by Fabrizio Bellomo from Italy
Homecoming. The rhythm is given by memories smells colours touch shapes and sound, leaving conventional storytelling behind, giving voice to the feeling of living for life’s sake, with no other goal to pursue or claim.

“Herbaria” by Leandro Listorti from Argentina, Germany
Botanical and film archives weave together in the art of overcoming time, attempting to preserve what will become memory.

“Tugging Diary” by Yan Wai Yin from Hong Kong
“Tugging Diary” documents a footbridge in Hong Kong during the period of protest, rallies, and strikes. Both the internet and physical spaces act as critical communication platforms. Information circulates more widely and rapidly outside the mainstream media. These messages are continuously being altered, removed, renewed, or overlaid with other information.

“End Time and The Trajectories of Ancestors” by Edwin Lo from Hong Kong
“End Time and The Trajectories of Ancestors” is a video (machinima) essay on the historical fragments of Montana and Native American history. Going deep into the American soil conveyed in the video game Far Cry 5 (2018), the work manifests the juxtaposition between religious survivalism on the nuclear threat and End Time, the digital landscape of Montana, and the historical records and testimonies of Native American’s history and movement. This intersection can be conceived as a detour in thinking and questioning the universal issues on colonization, land, race, violence and the appropriation of culture and history in the video game.

“Lake Forest Park” by Kersti Jan Werdal from United States
Filmed on location in Northwest Washington, Lake Forest Park (un)winds through a coming-of-age tale of a group of friends dealing with the secret of a classmate’s death. The film explores collective and individual grief tinged with existential confusions.

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