Central Eastern European cinema to be showcased online by Trieste
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The best of Central Eastern European cinema is making its return in digital form, on account of the ongoing health crisis, by way of the 32nd Trieste Film Festival which will run 21 – 30 January. The 50+ titles selected for the event directed by
Fabrizio Grosoli and
Nicoletta Romeo will be available to view on the MyMovies platform. This particular edition of the festival was supposed to revolve around the thirty-year anniversary of the Balkan Wars (1991/2021), “a project we’d been working on for years”, the artistic directors explain. But the pandemic has forced the festival to postpone this focus, “because many of the films we would have wanted to screen only exist in 35mm copies, which are impossible to screen in online festivals. Consequently, the tribute has been postponed (only to the spring, we hope), but we nonetheless felt it right to include two symbolic moments in such an important anniversary edition.” Indeed, it will be the film