Ischia Film Festival 2017, events and projections of the international film competition at the Aragonese Castle!
From the 24 June to the 1º July 2017 will host the XV edition of the competition “Ischia Film Festival” in the Aragonese Castle of Ischia, in the Cathedral of the Assumption and in the Piazzale delle Arms.
Le four categories will be competing (feature films, documentaries, short films and Location Negata), eleven countries present from four continents, sixty Italian works and twelve women directors.
The artistic directors Michelangelo Messina and Boris Sollazzo have done a lot of work to decide the titles of the films that would take part in the competition but let's see together what the festival program foresees.
Ischia Film Festival program
The June 24 2017
- 19:30 pm “Film Cocktail”, meeting reserved for professional accredited persons at the Aragonese Castle
- 20:30 pm Inauguration of a photographic exhibition
- 21 Hours: 00 Screening of a short film in the presence of the author at the Cathedral of the Assumption
- 21 pm Screening of the Works in Competition and of the works of the special sections in the Terrace of the Sun, in the Terrace of the Olives and in the Bourbon Prison of the Aragonese Castle of Ischia
- 21 Hours: 15 Screening of a feature film in the early evening at the Piazzale delle Armi
- 21 pm “Let's talk about Cinema” The authors of the selected works meet the public at the Cathedral of the Assumption
- 22:00 Screening of a feature film at the Cathedral of the Assumption
- 23 Hours: 00 Screening of a feature film in the late evening at the Piazzale delle Armi
From the 25 29 2017 June
- 19:30 "Film Cocktail" meeting reserved for accredited professionals at the Aragonese Castle
- 21 Hours: 00 Screening of a short film in the presence of the author at the Cathedral of the Assumption
- 21 pm Screening of the Works in Competition and the works of the special sections in the Terrace of the Sun, in the Terrace of the Olives and in the Bourbon Prison of the Aragonese Castle of Ischia.
- 21 pm Screening of a feature film in prime time at Piazzale delle Armi
- 21 pm “Let's talk about Cinema” The authors of the selected works meet the public at the Cathedral of the Assumption
- 22:00 Screening of a feature film at the Cathedral of the Assumption
- 23 pm Screening of a feature film in the late evening at Piazzale delle Armi.
The June 30 2017
- 10:00 am XV National Conference on Film Tourism reserved for accredited professionals
- 19:30 "Film Cocktail" meeting reserved for accredited professionals at the Aragonese Castle
- 21 pm Screening of a short film in the presence of the author at the Cathedral of the Assumption
- 21 pm Screening of the Works in Competition and the works of the special sections in the Terrace of the Sun, in the Terrace of the Olives and in the Bourbon Prison of the Aragonese Castle of Ischia.
- 21 pm Screening of a feature film in prime time at Piazzale delle Armi
- 21 pm “Let's talk about Cinema” The authors of the selected works meet the public at the Cathedral of the Assumption
- 22 Hours: 00 Screening of a feature film at the Cathedral of the Assumption
- 23 Hours: 00 Screening of a feature film in the late evening at the Piazzale delle Armi
The 1º July 2017
- 21 Hours: 00 Screening of the winning works of the festival at the Piazzale delle Armi. Free admission.
- 20: 30 Closure of the XV edition of the Ischia Film Festival at the Cathedral of the Assumption.
Gala evening for the awarding of the works in competition of the XNUMXth edition of the IFF International Award.
List of films in competition
Section in competition - The Feature Films
- "Caina" by Stefano Amatucci (Italy, 2016)
- "Even lovers get the blues" by Laurent Micheli (Belgium, 2016)
- "Immortality" by Mehdi Fard Ghaderi (Iran, 2016)
- "Le monde dont on reve n'existe pas" by Ayoub Qanir (United States, 2017)
- "Ears" by Alessandro Aronadio (Italy, 2016)
- "The worst" by Vincenzo Alfieri (Italy 2017)
- "Goose skin" by Marco Segato (Italy, 2016)
- "Urvi" by BS Pradeep Varma (India 2017)
- "The Veil of Maya" by Elisabetta Rocchetti (Italy 2017)
Section in competition - Documentaries
- "Another me" by Claudio Casazza (Italy, 2016)
- "Colors of the Alphabet" by Alastair Cole (UK, 2016)
- "Dil Leyla" by Asli Özarslan (Germany, 2016)
- "The long yellow road" by Antonio Oliviero, Christian Carmosino (Italy, 2016
- "Nine days in Cairo", by Carlo Bonini, Giuliano Foschini (Italy, 2017)
- "The president of the world" by Francesco Merini, Michele Cogo (Italy, 2016)
- "Sacred Water" by Olivier Jourdain (Belgium, 2016)
- "Unwanted Heritage" by Irena Skoric (Croatia, 2016)
- "Was Shakespeare English?" by Alicia Maksimova (UK, 2016)
Competition section - Short films
- "Amira" by Luca Lepone (Italy, 2016)
- "Buffet" by Santa de Santis, Alessandro d'Ambrosi (Italy, 2016)
- "Confino" by Nico Bonomolo (Italy, 2016)
- "Dime Short" by Krista Gano (United States, 2016)
- "The Driving Seat" by Phil Lowe (UK, 2016)
- "Fantassút" by Federica Foglia (Italy, 2016)
- "La femme et le TGV" by Timo von Gunten (Switzerland, 2016)
- "The professor's night" by Giovanni Battista Origo (Italy, 2016)
- "#Selfie" by David M. Lorenz (Germany, 2016)
- "The silence" by Farnoosh Samadi, Ali Asgari (Italy, 2016)
- "The team" by Andrea Brusa, Marco Scotuzzi (Italy, 2016)
- "The Trader" by Manuel Alvarez Diestro, Sergio Belinchon (Spain, 2016)
- "Die Überstellung" by Michael Grudsky (Germany, 2017)
- "Valparaiso" by Carlo Sironi (Italy, 2016)
- "Waltz" by Giulio Mastromauro, Alessandro Porzio (Italy, 2016)
Competition section - Location Negata
- "Fukushima: Les voix silencieuses" by Chiho Sato, Lucas Rue (France, 2016)
- "Halim" by Werner Fiedler (Austria, 2016)
- "The invisible city" by Lieven Corthouts (Belgium, 2016)
- "Latif, a fighting poet" by Massimiliano Zanin (Italy, 2016)
- "Lost in Hope" by Aline Hochscheid (Germany, 2016)
- "Mary Mother" by Sadam Wahidi (Italy, 2016)
- "Moby Dick" by Nicola Sorcinelli (Italy, 2017)
- "On récolte ce que l'on sème" by Alaa Ashkar (France, 2017)
- "Red Season" by Hasan Najmabadi (Iran, 2016)
- "Run (d) for freedom" by Francesco Furiassi, Francesco Agostini (Italy, 2017)
- "Samedi Cinema" by Mamadou Dia (Senegal, 2016)
- "Man overboard" by Emanuele Palamara (Italy, 2016)
- "Zu Gast Bei Freunden" by Luisa Ricar (Switzerland, 2017)
Information on the Ischia Film Festival
When: from the 24 June to the 1º July 2017
Where: Aragonese Castle of Ischia
Schedule: various appointments
Ticket price:
- € 10,00 day ticket
- € 25,00 cultural accreditation that entitles you to access every day of the festival
- € 20,00 cultural accreditation that allows residents of the island of Ischia to access all days of the festival
