The programme of the 13th Biografilm festival has been announced. Held in Bologna from June 9th to 19th, this year’s festival for life stories and biographies (documentaries, biopics) will focus on the world of dance.
The opening film will be Stéphanie Di Giusto’s The Dancer, the life-story of Loïe Fuller, daughter of a farmer in the American West who became successful dancer in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century. It will be screened in Bologna’s Municipal Theatre in the presence of the director and the actress Soko.
This year the international competition has ten films from a large number of countries, all shown prior to release. To name a few: Nothingwood, a Franco-German co-production about Salim Shaheen, an actor and director of Afghan musical comedies. To Stay Alive: A Method a Dutch film by Arno Hagers, Erik Lieshout and Reinier van Brummelen about Iggy Pop meeting Michel Houellebecq. Also, Karenina & I, a Norwegian film by Tommaso Mottola with the voice of Northern Irish actor Liam Neeson.
The festival offers numerous documentaries in the Biografilm Italia section. All Italian, they are first films at feature-length and all being screened for the first time. The Biografilm Europa section will show documentaries and drama films such as Annarita Zambrano’s “Après la Guerre” and Jérôme Salle’s bio-pic of Jacques Cousteau “L’Odyssée”.
For this 13th year, Biografilm will pay special tribute to the British film-maker and artist Peter Greenaway and the Italian actress Piera Degli Esposti.
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Sources: biografilm.it, Cineuropa, Imdb
