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Incontri Cinematografici di Stresa

There has been a new look to the fouth edition of the Incontri Cinematografici di Stresa, which ran June 17-21, 2009, in the prestigious scenery of the Maggiore Lake. Following the three editions focused on Italian and Swiss cinema, the 2009 edition opened to other European countries. More than a mere festival, the Incontri asserted itself as a dynamic event that shows a distinctive inclination to transcend national boundaries and is more and more perceived as a meeting not to be missed by devotees and experts.
The professional forums, attended by audiovisual industry professionals from different countries, were again recognized as the beating heart of the event and were as always aimed to develop collaboration and coproduction projects. The audience also enjoyed screenings, previews, retrospectives, distinguished guests and special events, among them the closing night dedicated to the city of Stresa and the traditional Golden Swan Award ceremony.
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Northwest Passages

Northwest Passages is targeted to young people with the aim of combining entertainment with education through a series of screenings, meetings with authors and reviewers and thematic parties. It focuses on the analysis of the social dynamics which affected North Italian major cities during the tumultuous 1970s, offering an unconventional view of the Milan and Turin areas through the lenses of the Italian popular genres (poliziottesco, noir, horror). It is also a survey on the most vital season of the Italian cinema, which was able to reflect the moods and fears of a post-1968 strife-torn country.
A call for noir short film screenplays open to the youth of the Verbania-Cusio-Ossola area is also included.
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Body and Anima

Body and Anima is the meeting point between cinema world and Japanese architecture, in the form of working plans and constructions of (real, possible and conceived) spaces and cities, signs and objects. The event presented a series of panels and screenings where film, architecture and art authorities, along with renown historians, have analyzed forms and ideas of contemporary architecture and visual design applications in the Land of the Rising Sun, with a peculiar view to the most used and popular media.
Composed either of BODIES (real actors) or ANIME (cartoons), the screened movies – unreleased, nearly unknown or to be discovered – stand out for their high visual impact and the strong influence on the collective Western imagination.
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Three Extremes
New urban spaces in contemporary cinema

Three Extremes is "pure cinema", a priviliged witness of contemporaneity, and also the means by which every transformation is captured. Not the mere representation of an urban space, it is the mirror of the evolution in human relations, in everyday life and in common imaginary, within that same "moving" space. Three Extremes intended to present an analysis of the strong links between cinema and urban spaces, social and economic changes, new cinema languages and new, memorable (anti-)heros. Three Extremes threw a look to a cinema territory - the asiatic one - that is more and more visible in the international context, though yet to be fully discovered.
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Moving Souls

Ever since the dawn of the silver screen, animated cinema has been viewed as an experimental field of artistic research. Not older than twenty, digital animation has deeply changed the cartoon cinema - becoming a partner, or rather part, of classical animation - though in ways not always fully recognizable.
This project wanted to cast a look on this ever-moving area, on the one hand offering a survey of both classical and digital animation, on the other proposing a first technical and professional approach to the digital world. This is why "theorists" have been placed side by side with those professionals who deal with the practice and the teaching of digital techniques in everyday life. It was structured to be a practical way to let audience know about one of the most common - though less known - aspects of contemporary cinema.
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Hollywood Giudecca

Scalera Film was founded in Rome in 1938 on the initiative of Scalera brothers, who had been building contractors closely knit to the fascist regime. It soon became the major Italian motion picture company. Scalera's studios in Venice opened on May 6th, 1944 and continued their activity until the mid-1950s. Scalera's production system, even if certainly minor, was nevertheless vital and remarkable.
As Venice and Giudecca islands are currently undergoing relevant changes, it seemed the right moment to analyze some features of a little known history and of an unique production industry, giving voice to historians, authorities and particularly to those who witnessed those events. Hollywood Giudecca then wanted to be an occasion to study the peculiarities of the "Scalera system", but also a fond tribute to the Giudecca island and its residents.
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Tribute to Peter Jackson

On the occasion of the release of the last - eagerly awaited - episode of The Lord of The Rings trilogy, "Multisala ESU" presented to students and cinephiles a tribute to director Peter Jackson, screening all the movies this creative New Zealand cineaste directed from the beginning of his career in 1987 to the dawn of the trilogy that made him a name all over the world.
Not only did the event rediscover "forgotten" classics such as The Frighteners, Heavenly Creatures and Forgotten Silver, the remarkable "mockumentary" on the origins of cinema, but it made audience also enjoy the director's splatter productions: Bad Taste, Braindead and particularly Meet the Feebles, the latter unreleased in Italy.