A double date with the latest film
by Slovak-Hungarian director Peter Kerekes, Wishing on a star,
opens at 7:30 p.m. at the Teatro Miela, the 36th Trieste Film
Festival, one of Italy's leading festivals dedicated to Central
and Eastern European cinema, scheduled until January 24.
Kerekes has been a guest of the festival several times. Also
shot in Friuli Venezia Giulia and Campania, Wishing on a star
revolves around the charismatic figure of Luciana, a Neapolitan
astrologer who has a method for making her clients' wishes come
true. The film premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival in the
Orizzonti section. The 36th edition will feature more than
130 films, including Italian premieres and special events,
international competitions and thematic sections, to investigate
the reality beyond borders, the stateless imagery of a world in
turmoil, in search of present and future, to reconstruct the
recent past of the 1990s in the Balkan countries.
"The theme of family and family ties - explains festival
director Nicoletta Romeo - this year seems to be a cross-cutting
leitmotif that unites so many of the films in the program:
dysfunctional families, queer, fluid, bigoted, families as
refuge and extended families.The family is pilloried as an
institution, with all the jammed mechanisms of a powerful
archetypal structure that nevertheless does not always seem to
respond to the needs and desires of the individuals who are part
of it. But sometimes it is also the only place of salvation in
broken societies, and it is always in the face of death that
bonds are strengthened, and old grudges take a back seat".
In addition to screenings, the program includes exhibitions,
guided tours, children's workshops, master classes and tastings.
Protagonist of the Wild Roses section will be Serbia with its
female directors.Three sections are dedicated to international
competitions for feature films, short films and documentaries.
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