2008-10-24
49th Festival dei Popoli – Instruction for use
The Festival by Numbers
In the making of the 49th edition of the Festival dei Popoli, the Director and the Selection Committee viewed more than 2,500 films. Among them, more than 1,500 were directly submitted to the Festival dei Popoli, while the others were viewed at International Documentary Film Festivals around the world.
The program of the 2008 edition includes 163 titles divided in the following sections:
"A Baltic Diagonal": A retrospective on 50 years of documentary cinema in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia (84 films)
"Claire Simon, the legend behind the reality": Focus dedicated to the French filmmaker Claire Simon (18 films)
"Faces of the Power": A thematic section (14 films)
Official Selection, Feature Doc Competition: 17 films
Official Selection, Short Documentary Competition: 14 films
Official Selection, Free Style: 9 films
Official Selection, Special Events: 7 films
Among the 46 films included in the Official Selection of the Festival:
9 are World Premieres
6 are International Premieres
2 are European Premieres
27 are Italian Premieres
Countries:
Italy (4), France (8), Germany (5), Romania (1), United Kingdom (3), Sweden (1), Latvia (2), Czech Republic (1), Greece (1), Portugal (1), Austria (1), Belgium (2), Switzerland (1), Russia (1);
Colombia (1), Canada (1), Argentina (2), USA (4), Mexico (1), Brazil (1);
Lebanon (1), Iran (1), Yemen (1), Turkey (1), Israel (3), China (1), South Korea (1); Algeria (1).