Sept. 18 – Italian cinema continues its world tour enjoying success and bringing home major awards. After the Venice and Toronto Festivals, it’s time for another important event, this time in South Korea, at the Busan International Film Festival, to be held October 3-12. Italy arrives to the Asian festival with a major selection of large and heterogeneous films. It focuses its proposal on seven films, after the last edition of the award saw “Là-bas” by Guido Lombardi win as best first work, a film produced by Cinecittà Luce. Among the seven movies, great expectations lie with Paolo Zucca “L’Arbitro,” in the official competition. The film had already been selected for a special screening at the Venice film festival. The remaining Italian films presented in Venice will also travel to Korea for the Festival: ” Via Castellana Bandiera ” by Emma Dante, ” Sacro GRA” by Gianfranco Rosi and “L’Intrepido” by Gianni Amelio. Also fresh from the Venice Festival is “Il Terzo Tempo” by Enrico Maria Artale, while the Festival will also be an occasion to introduce in the Asian market a film from Cannes, winner of the “Semaine de la critique,” “Salvo” by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza. Giuseppe Tornatore’s “La Migliore Offerta” will also be presented for its Korean première.
