Dec. 14 – “One day you’ll have to go,” the new film by Giorgio Diritti, will compete for Italy at the next Sundance Film Festival (17-23 January 2013), together with the first Italian-Chilean coproduction, “The future” by Alicia Scherson. The latter was adapted from the novel by cult author, Roberto Bolaño and it is the first film adaptation of one of his works. The two films have symmetrically opposite paths: Giorgio Diritti takes his main character, played by Jasmine Trinca, through the Brazilian Amazon Forest; while Alicia Scherson’s characters arrive in Rome directly from Chile. Diritti’s film also inaugurates the year of Italian Culture in the United States. “The quality of Italian films that we watched this year is remarkable – said John Nein, senior programmer at Sundance. So many interesting titles, inventive and engaging that it is a shame we couldn’t place them all. But “One day you’ll have to go” gives a concrete writer’s vision, and tells a story in a way that upholds Sundance’s standards. We are honored to host a director like Giorgio Diritti, and we are eager to see the reaction of the American public to his beautiful and meditative film.” The presence of Italian films at the Sundance Film Festival is organized by the Istituto Luce-Cinecittà.
