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| Objectives of the Festival and new regulations |
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During the
past few years, the programme of the Festival has gradually been enriched
by new geographical horizons.
With the Windows on the World Section we crossed the frontiers of
Africa and black culture, opening the Festival up to a dimension of
“métisse” cinema where cultural and racial confines
became increasingly blurred.
The richness and variety of this cinematic production urges us today
to reformulate the regulations of our competition and the sections
of the Festival.
There are multiple reasons for opening up the Festival to the other
continents in the South of the world. In the first place, the African
filmmakers themselves asked to take part in a competition which was
not limited to African cinema but opened the doors to allow them to
measure up with other cinemas. In this way the possibility of inviting
to the festival filmmakers from the three continents for an exchange
with professionals from Italy and Europe, as well as the opportunity
to stimulate South-South co-productions. With the participation of
the Asia and Latin America, there is also the ambition of giving a
new impulse to African cinema both in terms of the economic development
of production and the insertion of African professionals in the sector
of international culture and the cinema.
Possibilities are multiplied to reveal the most hidden cinemas for
further enrichment of multicultural dialogue. |
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