WILD ROSES TRIBUTE TO GERMAN WOMEN FILMMAKERS AND
THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF CLU – UNITED WORKERS FRANCO BASAGLIA SOCIAL COOPERATIVE
The second day of Trieste Festival screenings at Teatro Miela focuses mainly on Wild Roses -the section of the Trieste Film Festival that each year takes stock of female filmmakers from a Central and Eastern European country: after Poland, Georgia and Ukraine, here is a selection – by Berlinale Executive Director Mariëtte Rissenbeek – of the most interesting female perspectives of contemporary Germany.
Thirteen titles by thirteen female directors will be on the program: there will be films that have won awards around the world, but also less universally known works that can unveil names (yet) to be discovered by Italian audiences, which -as Nicoletta Romeo, artistic director of the Trieste Film Festival, explains- “will show us a modern, inclusive, multicultural country far from stereotypes”.
The screenings begin at 2:00 p.m. with WESTERN by Valeska Grisebach (D – BG – A, 2017, col., 119′) set in the Bulgarian countryside where a group of German construction workers is sent to work in a remote site. The foreign land awakens the men’s sense of adventure but also forces them to face prejudice and mistrust caused by language barriers and cultural differences. Western was presented in 2017 at Cannes in the “Un Certain Regard” section and in 2018, as a Special Event, at the Trieste Film Festival. “Several cues have contributed to the making of this film… One was the Western genre. I grew up with Western films in the 1970s, I used to watch them sitting in front of a television in West Berlin … [also] the theme of latent xenophobia was something I had long wanted to explore in a film … I liked the idea of German men who, with their claimed technical superiority, arrive in Bulgaria and share the communist experience with the locals.” (V. Grisebach).
At 6:00 p.m. we will watch ANIŞOARA by Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu (Anishoara, D – MD, 2016, col., 106′), the story of a 15-year-old girl who lives in a small village in Moldova. In the summer, during the melon harvest, she falls in love for the first time. The following autumn, a German tourist arrives at the village and, for a brief moment, enters her life.
During the winter, Anişoara goes to the seaside for the first time together with Dragoş, the young man with whom she is in love. The following spring Dragoş comes back to her with a surprise. It is the last year of Anişoara’s adolescence and adulthood is just around the corner. ANIŞOARA is a graduation film with which the director won the “When East Meets West Development Award” in Trieste in 2013. The film was then presented at the festival in 2017, during the 28th edition.
At 8:00 p.m. it is time for the first major international guest. Margarethe Von Trotta will present her film INGEBORG BACHMANN – REISE IN DIE WÜSTE Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert (CH – D – L – A – HKJ – I, 2023, col., 111′ v.o. German – French – Italian). When Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch met in Paris in the summer of 1958, they were already international celebrities in the literary field. Their love is passionate, but professional and personal frictions begin to disrupt their harmony. Directed by one of the most important female directors in the European film industry, the film was in competition at the last Berlinale.
Wild Roses 3 TAGE IN QUIBERON by Emily Atef (3 Days in Quiberon, D – A – F, 2018, b-n, 115′, German – French v.o.) Italian premiere will be closing the second day of Trieste Festival screenings. Romy Schneider, the biggest European star of her era, gives her last interview in a spa hotel with two journalists. Over three days the actress will talk about desire, professional ambition and the joy of living. The film was presented in competition at the Berlinale in 2018.
In the afternoon, there will be another important event with the world premiere screening of the non-competing 50 YEARS OF CLU – UNITED WORKERS FRANCO BASAGLIA SOCIAL COOPERATIVE by Erika Rossi (I, 2024, col & b-n, 58′, Italian v.o.). Fifty years ago the world’s first social cooperative was born: this is the story of how everything was possible in Franco Basaglia’s Trieste, and of those who still make it possible today.
EVENTS WITH RESERVATION / MORE EVENTS
NORDIC ATMOSPHERES IN THE CITY
by Marzia Arzon, tour guide
Today as in the past, Trieste is a city on the border, which exudes a different, icy, Nordic charm and where, at the same time, one can savour a Levantine atmosphere: one can feel it in the streets, smelling the scent of distant spices, used in the city foods and customs. The walk on Saturday 20th at 11:00 a.m. will have, as its leitmotif, as its narrating soul, the discovery of Trieste through its cleverly mixed contrasts to capture a city with a “geographically Slovenian territory, which had an Austro-Hungarian administration but an Italian essence” (cit. Fabio Cusin). The starting point will be the Casa del Cinema, Piazza Duca degli Abruzzi 3. Admission fee, mandatory reservations: prenotazionitsff@gmail.com
TO THE EAST OF THE MOON
A look at science fiction from beyond the Curtain.
Exclusively for the Trieste Film Festival audience, a guided tour by La Cappella Underground at Bastione Fiorito of San Giusto Castle. On Sunday 21st at 11:00 a.m. at the exhibition “Space Halberds. 60 years of festivals and science fiction in Trieste” at San Giusto Castle, a special focus on Eastern European science fiction cinema by the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival. A journey through the multiverse of cinematic science fiction, with vintage shots and original lobby cards of the films that have made the history of the Trieste Film Festival. You will discover a rich video gallery, stage costumes, memorabilia and other surprises.
The exhibition and visit are included in the entrance ticket of the San Giusto Castle.
JOYCE’S TRIESTE
by Fulvio Rogantin
The tour on Sunday 21st at 4:00 p.m. will introduce you to the life of James Joyce, who had lived in Trieste for more than a decade, through a walk through the city: starting from his statue, crossing via San Nicolò and up to Cavana, where Joyce frequented brothels and taverns. On the tour, you will be told the story of his arrival, from Dublin to Trieste, in October 1904, of his letters, his books and his Triestine dialect. And finally the answer to the question, “Was he a friend of Italo Svevo?” The starting point will be the Casa del Cinema, Piazza Duca degli Abruzzi 3. Admission fee, mandatory reservation: prenotazionitsff@gmail.com
TSFF OF THE LITTLE ONES – THE MAGIC OF SHADOWS: SPECIAL EVENT FOR YOUNG AND OLD!
Screenings of films by Lotte Reiniger with live musical accompaniment, 11:00 a.m.
by Schermi e Lavagne / Cineteca di Bologna
Over one hundred years ago, Lotte Reiniger, a pioneer of German cinema, created some of her masterpieces in silhouette animation, inspired by the world of classic fairy tales.
The Cineteca di Bologna has selected four silent short films by Lotte Reiniger, dating back to the 1920s, 1930s and 1950s, which will be accompanied by live music by Maestro Daniele Furlati.
Using fascinating hand-cut black silhouettes, she created, between the 1920s and the 1950s, an animated universe entirely played on the contrast of light and shadow, thus
TSFF OF THE LITTLE ONES – THE SPACE OF WONDERS: A WORKSHOP TO EXPERIENCE THE SPECIAL EFFECTS OF CINEMA
by La Collina Cooperativa Sociale
Saturday 20th (3:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m.) and Sunday 21st (10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 4:00 p.m.) at Teatro Miela, come and discover the magic of cinema in the laboratory of wonders. There will be four stations to experience the special effects and illusions of the film industry, play with the sounds and music of soundtracks, engage in the editing of cartoon scenes and uncover the mysteries of optical illusions! For children aged from 8 to 11.
Entrance fee, mandatory reservation: prenotazionitsff@gmail.com)
CINEBRUNCH
We would also like to remind you that on the weekend the great cinebrunch will make a comeback. Sunday, January 21st, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., the tradition of the brunch from 040 Social food will repeat itself: classic delicacies and new dishes directly from North Eastern Europe, in perfect harmony with the Trieste Film Festival.
Admission fee, prenotazionitsff@gmail.com
