Lucania Film Festival – ENG

LFF investigates on the perception of the others

There are only three weeks at the beginning of the ninth edition of Lucania Film Festival, which will be held in Pisticci, from 10 to 13 August. After long months of preparation, the last details have been defined, the team is complete and is ready to start that path which will reach the highest apex in the four days of the most important festival of short films in the whole south of Italy. An appointment which since 9 years doesn’t want to involve only the local reality, but also an international reality. The LFF, in fact, with 58 entered countries and all five continents represented, is going to collect half the global annual production of short films, making it one of the most important festival in Europe.  In this edition we want to give importance to international problems. The graphic plan recalls the olympic flag – with an explicit reference to Peking 2008 – whose circles, tied up one to another as rings of a chain, represent the five continents. Inside the circles, there are a few “pacman”, which show the power, ready to eat weak people, with no justice or equity. It is an implicit reference to the difficult social and political themes of Tibet, which will be widened with Lama Alak Rinpoche, who will carry his message of peace at the Festival. On 4th June, LFF has been the protagonist of the conference “Quando il cinema diventa sviluppo” (“When cinema means development”) in the Kublai Project – promoted by the Ministry of Economics -, a project thought for all creative artists, and oriented to the local development. The cultural association Allelammie has been praised for its work and for the results obtained in these years, and it has been a reference model for young artists who are going to realize project able to match culture and development, both human and territorial.

In the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, the organizers of the Festival have chosen to propose a new section: “Cinema e Volontariato” (Cinema and Volunteering), promoted along with the Center of Volunteer Service of Basilicata, involving film-makers of humanitarian not governmental associations and organizations. The subjects of short films will concern solidarity and active citizenship, human rights, initiatives of volunteering organizations, and dialogue between cultures. In the ten-year path of the LFF, the torchbearers are now approaching the goal, moving the flame which, from a small village of Basilicata, will lighten colours of coexistence of values and culture beyond the boundaries of cinema, illuminating for four days even other aspects of human society.

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