'11 edition
This year, Trieste Science + Fiction, is eleven years old and to celebrate the event, special guest George Romero is eagerly awaited. Director, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor and actor (he enjoys being an "infiltrator" in is own movies, a little like Alfred Hitchcock did), the undisputed father of zombies, will be attending S + F and receive the Silver Urania award, life achievement award for his astounding career.
Like every edition, S+F will not fail to present new experimental suggestions, previews and interesting international screenings. In the year that promotes the cultural fellowship between Russia and Italy, the program will be enriched with a Focus on Russian Cinema: a program dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's space flight. Among the titles: Paper Soldier of Alexei German Jr. (Bumaznij Soldat, film that won the Silver Lion in Venice in 2008) and the mockumentary First on the Moon, (Pervy na Lune, 2006) by Aleksey Fedorchenko.
The heart of the film festival will be as usual cinema- with Nocturno New Visions prize (for emerging directors), the Asteroid prize (award for best feature film), the Silver Urania, the Silver Melies for the best European fantastic film and for best short film organized in collaboration with the European fantastic Film Festivals Federation (www.melies.org). But do not miss the events dedicated to science and other areas. One of these is literature: a full day of screenings and meetings will be devoted to the most recent Italian science fiction productions -- Space Italy. Among the guests: Tullio Avoledo, author with David Dileo in 2011, of the novel Un buon posto per morire (Einaudi) and Maico Morellini, author of Il Re Nero, 22nd Urania Award, to be published in November.
The desire of Science + Fiction for the wonderful, the fantastic, the surreal and everything that is poised between real and perceived, has focused in this year’s poster: a woman in the foreground, a "dancer" on her toes, in the air, almost dragged upwards by an unknown force or by an invisible thread tied to a puppeteer.
Therefore, see you soon at of Multiplex Cinecity / The Space (Towers of Europe) screens from November 10 to 13, 2011.
