This is so surprising that I have to pinch myself a little to believe it!
After having been selected with my miniseries project “Klara” for the “Bergman Talent Lab” last summer, I am now again selected for the other really prestigious budding talent event that takes place every end of October during the Uppsala Short Film Festival!
I will be attending the festival with other eight selected talents for the Uppsala Talangdagar, and I am so thrilled! Party time, yay!
Pride and joy for this precious festival selection! Tonight, at the Cinema Massimo in Turin The Wedding Cake will be competing at one of the most socially important festivals I have ever been to… The LiberAzioni is not just about films, but about a possibility of hope, future, belonging. I could not be happier today, and it surely shows on my face here, struggling with my strong emotions!
New festival for The Wedding Cake that is competing at the Metricamente Corto Film Festival in the town of Borgoricco, near Padova! I won’t be able to attend but this time I will at least have one of my oldest and best friends who lives there, Alessandra, to enjoy the screening! The festival will take place between 1 and 9 October 2021.
It’s been quite a while since I enrolled my short film documentary Dignity to a film festival, but someone suggested me the Bright Future Independent Film Festival here in my hometown Göteborg and I gladly submitted it: I am so happy my short has been selected! This is its 62nd festival screening!
The festival will take place both online (2-10 October) and in two amazing venues here in Göteborg, the “Världskulturmuseet – The World Culture Museum” on the 8th of October, and the Röhsska Museum on the 10th of October. Not sure if Dignity will make it for the live screenings, but I will let you guys know about the schedule in this case!
I am so glad to be back to Lebanon! This time The Wedding Cake is going to compete in the marvelous Lebanese Independent Film Festival – LIFF 2021 لمهرجان اللبناني للأفلام المستقلة / Festival Libanais du Cinéma Indépendant! The festival will take place on 25 to 26 September 2021 at Station Beirut – Jisr El Wati.
WOW! I am sooo thrilled The Wedding Cake is competing at one of Tuscany’s oldest and most prestigious festivals, the Valdarnocinema, reaching its 39th edition this year! The festival will take place between 6 and 10 October 2021.
I am really thrilled to remain in my beloved Sicily for this very last summer with The Wedding Cake! This time for one of the biggest short film festivals of this region, the Catania Corti in Cortile Short Film Festival!
The festival has a very intense program that stretches from 15 to 19 September 2021.
What a blast! The editor of The Wedding Cake, Mikael Moiner, won the prize for “Best Editing Award” at the lovely Noto International Film Festival, Sicily. The statuette is on its way, both Mikael and I will show it with pride as soon as received!
The ceremony can be watched on Facebook at this link, the part that involves us starts at around 8:24, and both Mikael and I are proud about the motivation of the jury (which included stellar film experts, among them Steve Della Casa): “An extraordinary visual and audio montage made of frequent cuts and flash images that gives body and expressive quality to the voiceover story, offering a luminous film version of a desperate life.” The president of the jury, Liotta, also mentioned the high quality and the technical maturity of this work. Nice!