Documentaries in Trieste
Trieste – the city of Claudio Magris – still miss a creative documentary on this magnificent author – hosts a fine festival that starts tomorrow January 16th and runs until January 22nd. The documentary programme has quality and is also daring taking off with Romanian ”The Second Game”, a full football game. Here is the description given by the director C. Porumboiu: “This film is a football match, a derby between two Bucharest teams, Steaua and Dinamo, which took place on the 3rd of December, 1988. My father was the referee. We re-watched the match together, some 25 years later.” Writing history in an original way!
This is one of the 12 documentaries in competition. Others are Croatian Tiha K. Gudac’s “Naked Island“, “Euromaidan. Rough Cuts” by the team behind the DocuDays festival in Kiev, “Velvet Terrorists” by Slovak trio Ostrochovsky, Pekarcik and Kerekes, Hanna Polak’s “Something Better to Come” and Alina Rudnitskaya’s “Victory Day”.
All fine films with an international appeal. On top of that there is a rough cut session for documentaries and a pitching event for new projects. It’s all very professional and competent. Take a look at
