by MK
The 33d Trieste Film Festival, which will take over our city from 21 January to 30 January, was presented at Harry’s Saturday morning with events galore to choose from.
“We are happy to be here, and to renovate our collaboration with the Rossetti theater, Cinema Ambasciatori and Miela theater” opened the press conference Monica Goti, one of the organizers of the festival. “I would like to urge everyone not to abandon the places of culture. Come back to cinemas and theaters, which are safe places to be” .
“Following the fall of the Berlin, Trieste Film Festival has been one of those events that designed the historical moment we’re living in,” said the regional councilor for culture, Tiziana Gibelli.
This year’s festival will offer the participants FVG festival & cinema card which was launched in the occasion of Gorizia and Nova Gorica’s nomination for the the cities of culture 2025.
Giorgio Rossi, Trieste’s councilor for culture who was present at the inauguration added: “Trieste is way ahead of other Italian cities in the cultural sector. We know that Trieste has an enormous potential and we must remember that culture is the answer.”
One of the main events of the festival is “When East Meets West”, a “closed encounter between professionals from Europe,” said Paolo Vidali. “This year’s focus is on Russia, US and UK. We create bridges, we believe in unity. Cinema is a cultural product, which should be remembered as such.”
“I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t living this festival with grand emotion,” said Fabrizio Grosoli, one of the organizers. “Last year the festival was entirely online, which was of course a new experience for us. This year we are lucky to be able to do this as the rest of Europe is going through a difficult moment. Like the Berlin festival which is reducing its participants and going completely online. We are especially excited to have the many female directors in this year’s festival, which are the vital lymph of the cinematic world nowadays.”
Nicoletta Romeo, the co-organizer of the festival, added: “Pandemics couldn’t stop our program from being packed full of wonderful events this year – both live and online. We are in the Rossetti theater (with grand special events and the short films), Teatro Miela (kids film festival and other grand events) and Ambasciatori (which will host documentaries). Our festival’s focus this year is on Georgia and we are so happy to have fiction and documentaries from this country. It is one of those places that are not well known but it’s a very European country.“
Nicoletta finished by adding: “TFF is international, with roots in Europe, but it doesn’t forget the Trieste’s and FVG’s participants. This is also thanks to the FVG film commission which supports the directors on the regional level. Cinema is an expensive art, we all know it.”
For more information on the festival, please visit TFF’s website.
