This night’s Piazza Grande screening in Locarno was preceded by an impassioned and elaborate demonstration mounted by native activists campaigning for an finish to violence in Gaza.
The demonstration was transient and lasted no various minutes on the Piazza Grande, the place Miguel Ángel Jiménez’s newest characteristic, The Birthday Celebration, is screening.
Attendees on the Piazza held small placards that featured the textual content “Cease GENOCIDE. Phrases and actions for PEACE, in opposition to indifference,” printed in a number of languages, together with English. The placards had been additionally marked with cutouts of bandages painted pink to represent blood.
The placards had been handed out earlier this night by a neighborhood activist group, which has no official title however consists of residents from throughout the realm of Ticino, Switzerland, the bigger administrative area inside which Locarno sits.
Comparable Palestine protests came about finally yr’s Locarno Movie Competition. We wrote concerning the different Piazza Grande screening, which featured native activists and pageant attendees gathering for a night of movie screenings about Palestine. That occasion was hosted by the native left-wing cooperative Coordinamento Unico a sostegno della Palestina/ Coordination in help of Palestine (Cusp).
Elsewhere this night in Locarno, Beirut-based Abbout Productions, led by Georges Schoucair and Myriam Sassine, had been handed the Raimondo Rezzonico Award for producing.
The Birthday Celebration is Jiménez’s eight characteristic and stars Willem Dafoe, who was current this night in Locarno. The movie is about within the late Nineteen Seventies, someplace within the Mediterranean, the place Marcos Timoleon, an Aristotle Onassis-like tycoon, is throwing a lavish, extravagant birthday celebration for Sofia, his daughter and sole heiress, on his unique non-public island. The celebration is an ideal excuse for numerous individuals in his life to method him with their very own agendas. Tonight’s screening was the world premiere.
Locarno runs from August 6 to 16.
