Lucca Film Festival

The Lucca Film Festival (LFF) is a film festival in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. It was founded in 2005 by the “Vista Nova” organization.

Purpose

Its purpose is to offer its audience a new approach to cinema; to promote a cinematographic culture made of a plurality of sights, styles and perspectives; and, most of all, to introduce attendees to a new sensory and intellectual experience[1] Throughout the years, the Lucca Film Festival has dealt with the various contrasts of today’s cinema: Template:Avant-garde, experimental and mainstream Attendees to the LFF have included important directors, actors and international artists, like Kenneth Anger, Jonas Mekas, Tsai Ming-liang, Michael Snow, Paolo Taviani, Robert Cahen, Lou Castel, Abel Ferrara, Philippe Garrel, György Pálfi, Antoni Padrós, Benedek Fliegauf, Peter Greenaway, John Boorman, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Terry Gilliam.

Editions

Short-film competition

More than 500 works from all around the world, selected by some of the most important international festivals, are competing in the short-film contest. The competition includes 4 sections: Fiction, Documentary, Experimental and Animation. The final selection is judged by an international jury of experts.

Contest winners
Year Title Director Origin
2007 De Sortie Thomas Salvador FR
2008 Vertigo Rush Johann Lurf AU
2009 Cada cuatro fotogramas Alberto Cabrera Bernal ES
2010 Licht André Schreuders NL
2011 Song Eponine Momenceau FR
2012 Go burning Atacama Go Alberto Gemmi IT/DE
2013 Studio per interno con figure e suoni Rick Niebe IT
Ex aequo Mirror by mirror Sergei Sviatchenko and Noriko Okaku DK/UK
2014 Red Mill Esther Urlus (NL)
2015 Jazz For a massacre Leonardo Carrano and Giuseppe Spina (IT/PL)

Festival venues

Screenings

Venues

Lucca Film Festival retrospectives

2006 edition

Tributes to affirmed characters involved in the international cinema scene

Retrospectives about a particular theme, country or category

Special events, projections, performances

2007 edition

Retrospectives about the most influential characters involved in experimental and avant-garde cinema

Tributes to affirmed characters involved in the international cinema scene

Retrospectives about other characters involved in independent and experimental cinema

Retrospectives about a particular theme, country or category

Retrospectives about emerging artists of experimental cinema, matched with works' exposition

Special evenets, projections, performances

Expositions

2008 edition

Retrospectives about the main characters involved in independent and experimental cinema

Tributes to well-known characters involved in the international cinema scene

Retrospectives about other artists of experimental cinema

Tribute to young directors working in mainstram cinema with innovative ideas and positions

Retrospectives about a particular theme, country or category

Retrospectives about emerging artists of experimental cinema, matched with works' exposition

Special events, projections, performances

Expositions

2009 edition

Retrospectives about the main characters involved in independent and experimental cinema

Tributes to well-known actors working in international cinema

Tribute to young directors working in mainstram cinema with innovative ideas and positions

Retrospectives about a particular theme, country or category

Expositions

2010 edition

Retrospectives about the main characters involved in independent and experimental cinema

Tributes to well-known directors working in international cinema

Retrospectives about other characters involved in independent and experimental cinema

Tribute to young directors working in mainstram cinema with innovative ideas and positions

Retrospectives about a particular theme, country or category

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2011 edition

Retrospectives about the main characters involved in independent and experimental cinema

Retrospectives about other characters involved in independent and experimental cinema

Retrospectives about a particular theme, country or category

Special events, projections, performances

Expositions

2012 edition

Retrospectives about the main characters involved in independent and experimental cinema

Tributes to well-known directors involved in the international cinema scene

Tribute to young directors working in mainstram cinema with innovative ideas and positions

Special events, projections, performances

2013 edition

Retrospectives about the main characters involved in independent and experimental cinema

Tributes to well-known directors involved in the international

Tribute to young directors working in mainstram cinema with innovative ideas and positions

Special events, Projections, Performances

2014 edition

Retrospectives about the main characters involved in independent and experimental cinema

Tributes to well-known directors involved in the international cinema scene

Tributes to well-known actors involved in the international cinema scene

Special events, projections, performances

2015 edition

Retrospectives about the main characters involved in independent and experimental cinema

Tributes to well-known directors involved in the international cinema scene

Tributes to well-known actors involved in the international cinema scene

Tribute to young directors working in mainstream cinema with innovative ideas and positions

Special events, projections, performances, David Cronenberg exhibitions

Lucca Effetto Cinema - Notte 2015

References

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