Monday, January 22nd, is the fourth day of screenings of the Trieste Film Festival at Teatro Miela and Wild Roses tribute to the most interesting female views of contemporary Germany continues.
Two panels to reason about cultural events in Europe will take place today.
The first, from 9:30 a.m. at Savoia Excelsior Palace, directly concerns Friuli Venezia Giulia: LET’S GO! 2025: SUSTAINABLE AND ACCESSIBLE EUROPEAN CAPITALS OF CULTURE AND CULTURAL EVENTS. For the second year in a row, Alpe Adria Cinema organizes a panel dedicated to the promotion of the event GO! 2025 Nova Gorica – Gorizia, the European Capital of Culture for 2025 in collaboration with the Friuli Venezia Giulia Department of Culture – Central Directorate of Culture and Sport – Cultural Activities Service. Representatives from four European capitals of culture will participate: Esch-Sur-Alzette (Luxembourg), Veszprém – Balaton (Hungary), Timișoara (Romania), Eleusi (Greece), clearly together with Nova Gorica – Gorizia. All the interventions tell a story of commitment and organization in the management of cultural events with regard to sustainability and accessibility towards the most fragile groups. The panel will be bilingual, Italian/English, and addressed to both representatives of local and institutional authorities throughout Friuli Venezia Giulia and Slovenia, as well as organizers of cultural events and the general public.
The second, at 5:00 p.m. at Sala CEI – Central European Initiative, is entitled CULTURE BEYOND ACCESS: HOW TO PLAN AND ORGANIZE INCLUSIVE AND ACCESSIBLE CULTURAL EVENTS and investigates how to make an event accessible, how to design and organize a cultural event, a festival or a show that is inclusive and open to all. We will talk about the openness to a greater possibility of cultural enjoyment, based on the principle of equal opportunities, that presupposes the architectural accessibility of the event venue and access to the experiences promoted and to the contents of the event. The panel aims to be an opportunity for training, discussion, and exchange of good practices to organize accessible and inclusive cultural events also in light of the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The speakers will be Fatima Djoumer CEO of Europa Cinemas, Andres Schüpbach Greta&Starks (Germany), Živa Jurančič Kinodvor (Slovenia), Federico Spoletti In Cinema Festival (Italy). Free admission, English.
The screenings at Teatro Miela will begin at 10:30 a.m. with the TSFF of the Little Ones featuring Michel Ocelot’s PRINCES AND PRINCESSES (F, 1999, col., ’67) curated by Schermi and Lavagne/Cineteca di Bologna. Author of the beloved Kirikù films, the fairy tale Azur and Asmar, Dililì in Paris and Le Pharaon, le Sauvage et la Princesse, with Princes and Princesses Ocelot has created a timeless work: the reference to the fairy tale and its archetypal characters declined in different cultural meanings, the choice of the silhouette that, like a shadow, conceals the physiognomic details of the protagonists and, at the same time, recalls the art of the shadow theatre, whose origins are lost in tales and documents thousands of years old. Everything contributes to conferring universality to the film. The screening is recommended for primary schools.
Immediately after, from 2 p.m., the long Wild Roses section begins with the Italian premiere of Angela Schanelec’s MUSIK (Music, D – F – SRB, 2023, col., 108′, Greek-English o.v.). Binding together a key mythical figure in our History with musical creation, Angela Schanelec, a leading figure of the German “new wave,” makes a comeback with her very own amazing contemporary interpretation of the tragedy of Oedipus. Musik premiered in competition at the Berlinale 2023, where it was awarded Best Screenplay.
The film will be followed at 4:00 p.m. by Ulrike Ottinger’s PARIS CALLIGRAMMES (D – F, 2019, col. & b-n, 130′, German – French – English o.v.). Paris Calligrammes combines the personal memories of Ulrike Ottinger – known worldwide as an avant-garde artist and unconventional filmmaker – with a portrait of the city and society of the 1960s, through archive footage and excerpts from her work. The film premiered at the Berlinale in 2020 and then at TriesteFF in 2021.
And again, at 6:00 p.m., SISI & ICH by Frauke Finsterwalder (Sisi & I D – CH – A, 2023, col., 132′ German – English – French o.v.) will be screened in its Italian premiere. In the late 19th century, Elizabeth, known as Sissi, Empress of Austria and Hungary, is living in Greece in an aristocratic women-only commune. Countess Irma is sent there to be her lady-in-waiting. Presented to the Berlinale Panorama section in 2023.
Maren Ade’s TONI ERDMANN (D – A, 2016, col., 162′, German – English o.v.) will be closing the day. A prankster father tries to reconnect with his daughter, a businesswoman in Romania, by creating a hilarious alter ego and posing as her CEO’s life coach. A brilliant comedy about a father-daughter relationship that won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016, the Best Film at the European Film Awards, and also represented Germany at the Oscars.
