Ginella Vocca, our 18th edition in November will be very rich
28 MARCH, 18:20
Ginella Vocca, director of MedFilm Festival in Rome, inTetouan (Morocco)
(ANSAmed) – TETOUAN (MOROCCO) – MedFilm, the Rome film festival for Mediterranean films, this year was the protagonist of the Mediterranean film festival in Tetouan, in Morocco, where it brought an interesting mix of Italian directors, including Daniele Luchetti, who won a prize at the now famous Moroccan event. We asked Ginella Vocca, director of MedFilm Festival, about the importance of these events.
"They are important for mutual understanding – he explained – and knowing each other is the first step towards every kind of human action that aims to achieve common goals. And since we keep hearing about the importance of dialogue between the two shores of the Mediterranean, this dialogue should happen in reality, and we at MedFilm have done this constantly, for 18 years, facilitating direct contacts between producers and directors on both sides of the sea." For Vocca "the great classic Italian cinema is well known and appreciated in the Mediterranean and it is unfortunate that Italy has not cultivated its ‘cultural advantage’. Today, our cinema is almost absent from these countries, just like Moroccan and North African cinema in general is absent in Italy. I think we should aim to bridge this gap, by turning our focus more and more on the Mediterranean and the closeness that makes Italy, among European countries, the most familiar to the countries of the South " .
The festival of Tetouan is underway until Saturday, and there are two Italian films in competition: ‘I am There’ by Andrea Segre and the ‘Kryptonite in the Bag’ by Ivan Cotroneo. "The Moroccans – said the head of MedFilm – greeted the Italian delegation with affection and made a great tribute to Daniele Luchetti, but above all strongly requested continuing the collaboration with the MedFilm that since 2009 has guaranteed the presence in Italy, in the context of the Rome Festival, of Moroccan cinema and the visibility of Italian cinema in Morocco." "In Tetouan – she continues – I could feel so much love for cinema and a lot of youthful energy. I saw rooms full of boys and girls, veiled and not, crowding in to see the festival’s films, as well as, over the railing that bordered the canonical red carpet. I saw many young people protest, hard, due to lack of work, that is to say that dreams, dramas, ambitions and desires are identical and common to all humans, whatever the location. " Meanwhile the next edition 18th edition of the MedFilm festival is already being prepared, "which will be very rich and will be attended, as guests of honour, by Slovenia and the northern shores of the Jordan for the southern side, along with so many interesting and beautiful film Italian international actors.
This will be held in Rome 10 to 18 November, " concluded Vocca.
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