(October 7, 2015) Italy is protagonist at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal. Founded by Claude Chamberlan and Dimitri Eipides in 1971, the Festival is held once a year and aims to discover and develop new trends in the cinema and the world of new media. At the 44th edition of the FNC – which starts today and will close its doors on October 18 – six Italian films will be screened. Among these, “La mezza stagione” directed by Danilo Caputo, whose participation is supported by the Italian Institute of Culture of the city. The movie is a co-production (Italy, Romania and Greece) and will compete in the Panorama section, along with other 36 independent works from around the world. Played by Espedito Chionna, Michela Di Napoli and Francesco Giannico, it is the first film of Caputo, a young director from Puglia, and has been realized thanks to the victory of the competition Mattador with a budget of around 100,000 euros. In Montreal the movie will be screened as the North American premiere, and it has already been presented at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, in the Czech Republic. In the program there will be also “Youth” by Paolo Sorrentino, “Champs des possibles” by Cristina Picchi,” “Cinécyclo Tour du Sénégal” by Vincent Hanrion, “Ferdinand Knapp” by Andrea Baldini and “The Merchant of Venice” by Michael Radford. (red)
