ShorTS International Film Festival:
45 shorts from all over the world competing in the Maremetraggio section
The Trieste event, this year scheduled on the web since 4 al 12 July 2020, announces the historic Maremetraggio section dedicated to the short films awarded at major international festivals.
The selection 2020 sees competing 45 works from 27 different countries, while genres range from animation to documentary, with many Italian directors behind the camera.
45 short films from 27 different countries. These are the numbers of Maremetraggio, historic competitive section dedicated to the shorts of ShorTS International Film Festival, the film event that this year from Trieste arrives on the web from 4 al 12 July 2020 thanks to MYmovies, technical partner of the event.
The best shorts from all over the world compete in the Maremetraggio section, during 2019, they have been awarded in the main international festivals, like the short documentary "Mars, Oman ”by Vanessa del Campo Gatell, awarded at the Festival dei Popoli and at the Visions du Réel, which tells the simulations of the expeditions to Mars made in Oman in the Arabian Peninsula, or the Chinese short film "She runs" by Qiu Yang, formerly Palme d'Or in Cannes 70 with “A Gentle Night”, selected in numerous international reviews, including Critics' Week in Cannes and the Toronto International Film Festival.
Among the Italian works in competition we find "Winter" by Giulio Mastromauro, awarded this year as best short film to the David di Donatello: an intense autobiographical account of childhood and loss. It also comes from Italy “Imperfect Beauty” David Vigor, who chooses the photograph by Daniele Ciprì to tell the encounter between a man of 65 years and a young Ukrainian girl in a dark Palermo. The short “Thunder and lightning” by Daniele Lince sees an unprecedented Carolina Crescentini, here struggling with a superhero role: the actress plays the Lightning Woman, who can move at supersonic speed and teleport, watching over the city and its inhabitants. But to face everyday life, sometimes superpowers are not enough.
Ample space for animation, including "Lost & Found” di Andrew Goldsmith e Bradley Slabe, Australian short film made with the stop-motion technique: a naive and romantic story, that speaks of the altruism of true love. The Danish short is also in stop-motion “Song Sparrow” at Farzaneh Omidvarnia, which uses the language of animation to filter the horrors of reality, staging the events of a group of refugees fleeing towards a better life. Fun for the whole family with the Swiss short film “Why Slugs Have No Legs” by Aline Höchli, that through exquisitely nonsense animation rewrites history and tells the imaginative origins of snails.
The 45 competing works will compete for the prestigious EstEnergy award – Hera Group to the best short film consisting of 5000,00 €. The AcegasApsAmga prize for the best Italian short film is also up for grabs, the Prem1ere Film Award for the best undistributed short film and the AMC Award for the best Italian editing. The Triestecaffè Award assigned by the MYmovies public has also been confirmed.
"The edition of 2020 on ShorTS, for reasons known to all, it will be a different and perhaps one of a kind edition. As well as the Festival, in its structure, it was different (and perhaps one of a kind) also the selection of the Maremetraggio section, done practically in full during the lockdown period” -declares Francesco Ruzzier, editor of the Maremetraggio section- “The surrounding situation and the viewing environment are factors that decisively influence the gaze and reception of any spectator. According to a study conducted by researcher Rosalind Cartwright, the dream dissolves the emotional charge of the experience. Even the short films themselves are nothing more than the staging of experiences of which the directors want to keep the emotional charge intact. Always vivid dreams, able to crystallize a moment, a situation, an emotion or a feeling to prevent time from melting it. What unites the works selected this year is the detachment from reality, the reinterpretation and the very personal view of the world by the directors, who model images with their way of seeing things. Even in documentaries (come Mars, Oman, but also the Indonesian Rewild) the desire to tell the reality from an unprecedented and personal point of view emerges. "
ShorTS International Film Festival is realized with the contribution of: Mibact – Film Board, Friuli Venezia Giulia region – Department of Culture, Friuli Venezia Giulia region – Department of Productive Activities and Tourism, CRTrieste Foundation and Municipality of Trieste, EstEnergy – Hera Group, AcegasApsAmga. Technical partner MYMovies.it. Thanks to Fondazione K. F. Casali.