4) What is your favourite Italian film?
Difficult to answer. Usually I like those films where auteur filmmakers express
their counter-ideological thought and criticism against Italian society, a desire for revolt against the status quo and the dominant ideological order. I also like when fiction meets with documentary-style realism, and glocal films, that is to say, films with a strong bond with a town, or a region, or a wider geographical area in Italy, which at the same time tell a universal story, a story that anybody in the world can understand and relate to. Too many films in my heart, impossible to sort just one out of my favourite list!
3) If there was one Triestino experience that any festival goer should take time out of the schedule to find, what would it be?
That’s an easy question, isn’t it? Since you are asking me, my answer will be always the same: Trieste Film Festival! Our festival is far more than just entertainment: it’s culture, fun, meetings, history, discovery, emotions, new media. In Europe you cannot find such a rich, articulated, wide offer of films from CEE countries.
James Freeman