Tekfestival. May 6 - 13 Roma - Genzano - Frascati

It's all ready for the 9th edition of Tekfestival, which will officially start on May the 6th at the Nuovo Cinema Aquila in Rome.


Sixty titles on scheduling, the best from the most recent independent cinema releases, documentaries, shorts and full-length movies, many guests, meetings with the audience, exhibitions, workshops and masterclasses: all this is Tekfestival "At the Border of the World... inside the West" from the 6th to the 13th of May 2010.

Tekfestival has a kaleidoscopic nature, vivid expression of the original joint work of the staff who lead it to mix up different genres and subjects. Tekfestival is becoming always more and more appreciated both by audience and critic especially for the passionate work from which it originates and for the sharing and experiences' flowing atmosphere anyone can breathe during the screening days.
Tekfestival is a place where it can be appreciated and deeply discussed movies and documentaries from the most important International Film Festivals, independent works, that examine new contemporary landscapes and bring on the screens actions of resistance.

Migrations, bodies' politics, life's precariousness and flexibility, countercultures, globalization's effects, memories, communities based on solidariety... these are only some of the keywords from the next edition.


1. Special events

Five titles from the best world international production (Italian or regional premiere of films already awarded or acclaimed abroad), generally will be introduced to the audience by directors.

The Yes Men fix the World, the 2009 longawaited full-length film that also won the Audience Award at the recent Berlinale. It's a pure hymn to the power of satire, a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations as Exxon and Halliburton, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world's most outrageous pranks.

Italian premiere for the pluriawarded Australian film Samson and Delilah by Warwick Thornton (Caméra d'or at Cannes 2009): two teenagers from a small community of natives in the deep Central Australian desert, the world outside, a journey, their love.

The eagerlyawaited regional preview of Zanzibar by Monica Pietrangeli and Francesca Manieri (2009), a documentary that brings the first Rome's lesbian bar back to life thanks to precious archive materials and video-interviews with the original protagonists at that time.

The European preview of Cellar by the versatile director Steve Staso, hosted by Tekfestival. The film follows the lives of three immigrants, Wael, a Lebanese cook, Luz, a Colombian manicure, and Syl, a green building maintenance engineer. Three invisible stories of immigration from the metropolitan fabric of New York, doomed to shape one another.

The Italian preview Terras by Maya Da-Rin. Following the ordinary events and the constant come and go of people along the border, Terras portrays the influence of the frontier on the lives of its inhabitants.

2. Events

Conferenza stampa
Martedì 4 maggio h 12:30
Biblioteca Comunale del Pigneto
Via Attilio Mori 1, Roma

Tek Aperitiv
Wednesday May 5 - from 18:30 to 21:00 h
giardino del Bar Marani, Via dei Volsci 57 - Rome (San Lorenzo)

Workshop Media 2007
Friday May 7 - 11:00 h
Nuovo Cinema Aquila
Via L'Aquila 66, Rome

BEARS ON FILM AFTER PARTY

Friday, May 7 - 24:00 h am
Eagle Club - Via Placido Zurla 68 - Rome (Casilina - Pigneto)

No Controles Party
Saturday May 8 - 22:30 h
Mads - via dei Sabelli 2, Rome (San Lorenzo)

MASTER CLASS: Nicolas Winding Refn
Sunday May 9 - from 18:30 to 21:30 h
Nuovo Cinema Aquila
Via L'Aquila 66, Rome


2. Sections
Agender
Screenings on Women's Cinema
Tequila Sunrise. Waiting for the Revolution
Focus Nicolas Winding Refn
Landscapes
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Special events
Doc competition

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