Traveling with the courageous Venice Days
“Courage” is the keyword of these Venice Days. Films about «courage, or lack of courage» (underlines the Artistic Director Gaia Furrer) and connections beyond isolation, such as that of the lockdown: it is no coincidence that travelling is a further thread. Journeys through which the VD enhance their «international vocation» for the General Delegate Giorgio Gosetti, under the banner of «exploration and experimentation» according to the President Andrea Purgatori. The connections are between the arts too, as shown by the titles of the Venetian Nights, between music and theater, in the new setting (from the collaboration with Isola Edipo) of the Island of Authors.
CIGARE AU MIEL (HONEY CIGAR)
Film di apertura, opera prima.
Francia/Algeria, 2020, Regia Kamir Aïnouz, Interpreti Zoé Adjani, Amira Casar, Lyès Salem, Louis Perez, Durata 100’
1993. Selma is seventeen and lives in Paris with her middle class laic Berber family. One day she meets Julien and finds him very attractive, but she also becomes aware how much the severe rules of her patriarchal family affect her intimacy. While Islam takes control of her home country and her family falls apart, Selma senses the desire to stand and fight starting her own process of growth to become a liberated woman. Selma is played by Zoé Adjani, daughter of Eric and Isabelle’s nephew, She debuted in the 2015 Cerise). Julien is Lyès Salem, César winner in 2004 for the short film Cousines who wrote, played and directed
