The Almuñécar City Council announces that this Wednesday the “I European Film Show” dedicated to Italy, paying tribute to the actress Iaia Forte, which will receive from the hands of the mayor, Trinidad Herrera, starting at 8 p.m., the “Minerva Award of the City of Almuñécar”, for being a relevant figure in the history of cinema.
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“The objective of this European Film Festival, which will run until Saturday the 11th every night from 10 pm at the El Majuelo park, was born as a singular project with a vocation of permanence, it reinforces the position of Almuñécar as a capital culture of the Costa Tropical and its commitment to culture, this time with the cinematographic arts “, according to the Councilor for Culture and Education, Alberto García Gilabert.
The honoree Iaia Forte, from the Venice Film Festival, will expressly attend to receive the award. In this first edition the film that will open the curtain will be “The great beauty”, co-written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, winner of the Oscar for the best foreign film in 2014, in which the actress takes part.
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It is worth highlighting the professional career of Iaia Forte shines in a multitude of plays and interesting forays into television programs, and the astonishing number of fifty films to her credit, many of them are indispensable titles of Italian and European cinema and place her Iaia Forte in the excellence of the cinematographic panorama. She is one of the most honored and respected actresses not only in her native country, but internationally. Iaia Forte has worked with high-level directors, including Pappi Corsicato, Mario Martone, Toni Servillo, Emma Dante, Leo de Berardinis, Carlo Cecchi, Federico Tiezzi, in addition to the previously mentioned Paolo Sorrentino.
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Italy
The sexitano mayor of Culture pointed out that the Film Festival will be dedicated each year to a European country. “For this first edition, Italy is the country of choice for many reasons; among them, for its unquestionable world reference in cinema and because we also share culture and the sea: the Mediterranean. “, indicated
The film event, directed by Mariche Huertas, is organized by the Almuñécar City Council and sponsored by the Italian Institute of Culture of Madrid, under the auspices of the Italian Embassy in Spain and the Dante Alighieri Society of Granada, “It aims to bring Italian film culture closer together with a program that includes a careful selection of award-winning and recognized films in the most important competitions on the current film scene. The films will be screened in their original version with subtitles in Spanish “, according to Mariche Huertas.
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The Great Beauty
The Exhibition will be opened by the film “The Great Beauty”, which has 60 awards and 77 nominations, tells the history of Rome, in summer, it is a pulsating city that welcomes a humanity that is agitated in glamorous parties, decadent bourgeoisie, eternal late nights , devoted tourists, terraces that host gatherings where souls are undressed … a city where you can vanish before so much beauty. Past successful journalist and writer Jep Gambardella leads an intense social life, but feels emptiness. The only thing left is the nostalgia for a love of youth and try to find the answer in innocence or, perhaps in bliss.
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Dirección: Paolo Sorrentino
Guión: Paolo Sorrentino and Umberto Contarello
Music: Lele Marchitelli
Photographer: Luca Bigazzi
Interpretes: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Serena Grandi, Galatea Ranzi, Isabella Ferrari, Giulia Di Quilio, Luca Marinelli, Giorgio Pasotti, Massimo Popolizio.
Italy-France co-production; Indigo Film, Medusa Production, Pathé, France 2 Cinéma, Babe Film, Canal +, Mediaset.
By the way the park “The Majuelo” It will also host during these days the exhibition of the sexitano, Javier Celorrio, “Almuñécar is about cinema”, composed of images from the films that have been recorded in the sexitana town.
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The entrance to the “European Film Festival of Almuñécar” is free with invitation, It is acquired at the Museum of Keys of Casa de la Cultura (Puerta de Granada) from Monday to Saturday, as well as at the door of the Park itself. More information in https://muestradecine.almunecar.es/wordpress/inicio/
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