Three Nights a Week officially opens the 37th International Critic’s Week dedicated to Mantas Kvedaravičius, the Lithuanian director killed in Mariupol during the Ukrainian war. The independent section organized by the Sindacato Nazionale Critici Cinematografici Italiani – SNCCI and open to first and second features wants to «discover today the films of tomorrow», quoting the Artistic Director Beatrice Fiorentino. This leap toward the future starts with its logo. The traditional little pen is replaced by a screen open on one side. verso il futuro, si rinnova anche il logo, raffigurante non più il pennino ma uno schermo aperto da un lato. «The breaking of the fourth wall », using the words of Cristiana Paternò, wants to symbolize a deeper dialogue with «critics, authors and audience». The birth of a physic space, the House of the Critics is a fundamental step in this direction. And then there are the movies. Ten feature films (7 in competition, 2 out of competition and a special screening) that, Fiorentino explains, not only refer to «the struggle for a more equal, fair and inclusive world» and the regaining of space and human contacts after the restrictions due to Covid but also to the problematic reconfiguration of identities (of gender and not only) in the contemporary world. We’ll discover how in the movies that we will watch in the next eight days: Margini by Niccolò Falsetti, Beating Sun (Tant que le soleil frappe) by Philippe Petit, Eismayer by David Wagner, Skin Deep by Alex Schaad, Dogborn by Isabella Carbonell, Anhell69 by Theo Montoya, Have You Seen This Woman? (Da li ste videli ovu ženu?) by Dušan Zorić and Matija Gluščević and the closing film out of competition Queens (Malikates), by Yasmine Benkiran. The special closing event is the homage to the Portuguese director Pedro Costa, the restored version of Blood (O sangue). The films in competition will run for two new awards, the Gran Prix IWONDERFULL (chosen by an international jury) and The Film Club Audience Award. Alongside will be the selection of Italian short movies for the SIC@SIC competition: Pinned Into a Dress (opening) by Gianluca Matarrese and Guillaume Thomas, Happy Birthday by Giorgio Ferrero (closing). In competition: Albertine Where Are You? by Maria Guidone, Come le lumache by Margherita Panizzò, Nostos by Mauro Zingarelli (starring Francesco Foti and Aurora Giovinazzo), Puiet by Lorenzo Fabbro and Bronete Stahl, Reginetta by Federico Russotto, Resti by Federico Fadiga and La stanza lucida by Chiara Caterina.
The cinema of tomorrow at the (new) SIC
