The most valuable documentaries of the year, award-winners at world-wide prestigious film festivals such as Venetia, Toronto, Sundance, Berlin and Tribeca, are coming to fARAD (6-9 October 2016, Cinema ARTA, Arad), most of them in premiere in Romania.
The theme of 2016 Edition is
prezenTrecut (presentPast), and all the features scheduled are, each in their own way, meditations on documentary as form of time travelling.
Admission will be free of charge.
The Festival will open with the controversial
Under the Sun (Award for Best Central and East-European Documentary at Jihlava Festival), a chilling film about manipulating the present, and also about our own communist past, made up of clandestine shoots in North Korea and of primary materials censored by the regime. The festival will close with a special screening at CitiZenit/Fabrica TEBA with
The Show of Shows (selected at Sheffield, San Sebastian), a captivating and touching documentary about a century of vaudevilles, circus performances, fairs and carnivals, made exclusively of rare archive materials edited on an especially composed sound track by Iceland band Sigur Rós.
The selections includes five national premieres to be screened for the first time in Arad, among which the Golden Bear winner in Berlin,
Fuocoammare, and the Jury Award winner for Editing at,
Nuts!. To these, a series of significant documentaries are added, among which
The Look of Silence (Grand Prize of the Jury at Venetia Festival; Oscar nominee),
Cameraperson (also presented in national premiere after a successful debut at Sundance), and
Every Face Has a Name (selected at Gotteborg and signed by Magnus Gertten, special guest at this fARAD's Edition).
The programme of fARAD 2016 is completed by for hybrid documentary shorts made by young Arad-based directors —
White Is the New White by Mihnea Rareș Hanțiu,
Libelula/Dragonfly by Mihai Sălăjan and Adelina Bulibașa,
Proiecționistul/The Projectionist by Norbert Fodor and
Veghe/Vigil by Titus Muntean — and by two special screenings: one for children, set up with the support of the Arad School Inspectorate —
Life, Animated (Prize of the Jury for Directing at Sundance) — and one adapted for people with eye sight deficiencies, in partnership with the Fundația Cartea Călătoare/Travelling Book Foundation —
Toto și surorile lui/Toto and His Sisters (the most awarded Romanian documentary of the latest years).
“This year”, Mona Nicoară, artistic director of fARAD, stated “we are starting a new initiative, unique in Romania: a laboratory, partially shaped after the Sundance, Independent Filmmaker Project and IDFA laboratories, granting young documentarists access to the highest professional level”.
fARAD Laboratory, presented in partnership with Scena9, will have an intensive activity throughout the festival and will include a practical workshop focusing on the relationship between the technical component and the artistic one in the creative cinema documentary, and on feedback sessions for the projects in development carried out by the selected participants.
Details at:
fARAD
