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: 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, William Friedkin, George A. Romero, Marco Bellocchio, Paolo Sorrentino.

Editions
  • 2005 Edition
  • 2006 Edition
  • 2007 Edition
  • 2008 Edition
  • 2009 Edition
  • 2010 Edition
  • 2011 Edition
  • 2012 Edition
  • 2013 Edition
  • 2014 Edition
  • 2015 Edition
  • 2016 Edition
  • 2017 Edition
  • 2018 Edition

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
YearTitleDirectorOrigin
2007De SortieThomas SalvadorFR
2008Vertigo RushJohann LurfAU
2009Cada cuatro fotogramasAlberto Cabrera BernalES
2010LichtAndré SchreudersNL
2011SongEponine MomenceauFR
2012Go burning Atacama GoAlberto GemmiIT/DE
2013Studio per interno con figure e suoniRick NiebeIT
Ex aequo Mirror by mirrorSergei Sviatchenko and Noriko OkakuDK/UK
2014Red MillEsther Urlus(NL)
2015Jazz For a massacreLeonardo Carrano and Giuseppe Spina(IT/PL)
2016Black CodeLouis Henderson(EN/FR)

Feature film competition

In 2016 Lucca Film Festival introduced the international Feature film competition. The winner of the 2016 edition is "Paradise" by the Iranian director Sina Ataeian Dena

Festival venues

Screenings
  • Teatro-Auditorium San Girolamo – Via San Girolamo[2]
  • Cinema Centrale – in collaboration with Circolo del Cinema di Lucca - Via di Poggio 36
  • Cinema Astra - Piazza del Giglio 7
  • Cinema Italia – in collaboration with Ezechiele 25:17 – Via del Biscione 32
  • Cinema Moderno - Via Vittorio Emanuele II

Venues
  • Fondazione Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti- Complesso di S. Micheletto[3] - Via San Micheletto 3 Free entry.
  • Fondazione Banca del Monte - Auditorium - Piazza S. Martino 4 Free entry.
  • Lu.CCA - Lucca Center of Contemporary Art - Via della Fratta 36
  • Centro Culturale Agorà - Piazza dei Servi
  • Ex Convento di San Francesco - Piazza San Francesco[4][5]
  • Archivio di Stato di Lucca[22] - Via dei Pubblici Macelli 155

Lucca Film Festival retrospectives

2006 edition
  • Kenneth Anger
  • Stephen Dwoskin
  • Adolfo Arrieta
  • Tonino de Bernardi
  • Mikheil Kobakhidze

Tributes to affirmed characters involved in the international cinema scene

  • Alan Clarke

Retrospectives about a particular theme, country or category

  • Road Movies

Special events, projections, performances

  • World preview of Permanent Vacation, directed by Adolfo Arrieta in Lucca during Lucca Film Festival 2005 edition

2007 edition

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

  • Michael Snow

Tributes to affirmed characters involved in the international cinema scene

  • Fratelli Taviani (Taviani brothers)

Retrospectives about other characters involved in independent and experimental cinema

  • Guy Debord

Retrospectives about a particular theme, country or category

  • Review about “Cinema&Film” magazine

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

  • Aldo Tambellini

Special evenets, projections, performances

  • Preview of La osa major menos dos directed by David Reznak 2007
  • Tribute to Isidore Isou with played performance by Frédéric Acquaviva
  • Preview of River of Anger, directed by Antoine Barraud 2007, documentary about and with Kenneth Anger

Expositions

  • Michael Snow – cinema, installations and visual arts -Fondazione Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti - Complesso di S. Micheletto
  • Photo exposition about Taviani brothers' cinema - Centro Culturale Agorà - Piazza dei Servi

2008 edition

Retrospectives about the main characters involved in independent and experimental cinema

  • Jonas Mekas

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

  • Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Retrospectives about other artists of experimental cinema

  • Pierre Clémenti

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

  • Shane Meadows

Retrospectives about a particular theme, country or category

  • Machinima, in cooperation with Lucca Comics & Games

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

  • Christian Lebrat

Special events, projections, performances

  • Preview of Schifanosaurus Rex directed by Franco Brocani. The movie is about his friend and artist Mario Schifano.
  • Preview of movies realized through smartphones by Stephen Dwoskin.
  • Project preview “Twenty Puccini”, collective work realized by independent directors. The movie is about short works dedicated to *Puccini in occasion of the 150 anniversary from his birth.

Expositions

  • Jonas Mekas – works - Fondazione Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti - Complesso di S. Micheletto

2009 edition

Retrospectives about the main characters involved in independent and experimental cinema

  • Robert Cahen

Tributes to well-known actors working in international cinema

  • Lou Castel

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

  • Guillaume Nicloux

Retrospectives about a particular theme, country or category

  • Sable Noir – the new genre cinema in France
  • Special events, projections, performances
  • Kiss by Andy Warhol - musical performance by Giulio Bursi, Bolognesi and Gherardi
  • Preview of short movies involved in the “Twenty Puccini” project
  • Preview of the show "NYC to PAL": the best of experimental cinema in NY

Expositions

  • Robert Cahen - Landscapes 1979 2008 - Fondazione Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti - Complesso di S. Micheletto

2010 edition

Retrospectives about the main characters involved in independent and experimental cinema

  • Gérard Courant - Franco Brocani

Tributes to well-known directors working in international cinema

  • Abel Ferrara

Retrospectives about other characters involved in independent and experimental cinema

  • Viva Auder

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

  • György Pálfi

Retrospectives about a particular theme, country or category

  • Unpublished short-films directed by Franco Brocani for Corona Cinematografica productions
  • "(An)Other Irish Cinema" – focus about young Irish cinema
  • "Free Radicals: a (hi)story of experimental film" by Pip Chodorow
  • "Flammes" directed by Adolfo Arrieta
  • Full projection of "Cinématon" directed by Gérard Courant

All the events took place in Lu.CCA - Lucca Center of Contemporary Art - Via della Fratta 36

2011 edition

Retrospectives about the main characters involved in independent and experimental cinema

  • Boris Lehman

Retrospectives about other characters involved in independent and experimental cinema

  • Catherine Libert
  • Tribute to young directors working in mainstram cinema with innovative ideas and positions
  • Daniele Gaglianone - Michelangelo Frammartino

Retrospectives about a particular theme, country or category

  • Independent Italian documentary

Special events, projections, performances

  • Paper Mutations - DAVID CRONENBERG's cinema
  • Section “Cinema and francoism”
  • Section “red shadows”

Expositions

  • Massimo Carnevale - in cooperation with Lucca Comics & Games - Villa Bottini

2012 edition

Retrospectives about the main characters involved in independent and experimental cinema

  • Paolo Gioli

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

  • Philippe Garrel
  • Tributes to well-known actors involved in the international cinema scene
  • Caroline Deruas

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

  • Bent Hamer

Special events, projections, performances

  • CAGE/CUNNINGAM – a 50-years lasting story

2013 edition

Retrospectives about the main characters involved in independent and experimental cinema

  • Antoni Padrós
  • Stan Brakhage

Tributes to well-known directors involved in the international

  • Peter Greenaway

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

  • Benedek Fliegauf

Special events, Projections, Performances

  • The Towers/Lucca Hubris byPeter Greenaway- architectural multimedial installation- San Francesco

2014 edition

Retrospectives about the main characters involved in independent and experimental cinema

  • Julio Bressane

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

  • David Lynch - John Boorman

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

  • Enrique Irazoqui - Ninetto Davoli

Special events, projections, performances

  • Lost Visions – The indiscreet charm of gaze by David Lynch
  • Lost Songs – concerts with soundtracks from David Lynch's movies
  • Lucca Effetto Cinema - Notte 2014

2015 edition

Retrospectives about the main characters involved in independent and experimental cinema

  • Roberto Nanni

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

  • David Cronenberg - Terry Gilliam - Alfonso Cuarón - Matteo Garrone

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

  • Jeremy Irons

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

  • Francesco Munzi

Special events, projections, performances, David Cronenberg exhibitions

  • Evolution Lucca - Fondazione Ragghianti - Lucca
  • M. Butterfly - Puccini Museum - Birthplace - Lucca
  • Red Cars - State Archives (ex-Macelli area) - Lucca
  • Paper mutations – DAVID CRONENBERG's cinema - Fondazione BdM - Lucca
  • Chromosomes - GAMC Galleria Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Modern and contemporary art gallery) - Viareggio - Lucca
  • Concert with soundtracks from David Cronenberg's movies, written by Howard Shore and played by Luigi Boccherini conservatory orchestra
  • Multimedial Performance by Master Gabriele Panico Larssen and by the director Roberto Nanni - Fondazione Ragghianti - Lucca

Lucca Effetto Cinema - Notte 2015

References
  1. it:Lucca Film Festival
  2. Comune di Lucca
  3. Fondazione Centro Studi sull’Arte Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti
  4. Comune di Lucca
  5. Regione Toscana
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