This year sees the return of the competition for Italian shorts, but with a summer twist for audiences and filmmakers. In a new, open-air format, the town’s squares will be hosting the film screenings.
The composition of the juries has also changed. This year they will be made up only of directors, producers and actors. Film people, in other words, like the jury chairman for the Italian Shorts Competition: Giorgio Tirabassi, film, television and theater actor and also director. In fact he will be presenting his short film Non dire gatto (Never Say Cat), winner of a 2002 David di Donatello award, at this year’s Corto in Bra.
Over 150 short films were sent to the festival from every region of Italy, and the selectors had the difficult task of drawing up a shortlist of finalists based on thematic topicality, narrative modernity and language plurality.
Once again the work submitted by young Italian filmmakers was generally of very high quality, and while as usual fiction shorts were in the majority, never before have we received so many animated films whose creativity and cohesion will surely win them great popularity with audiences and jury members.
As always, Corto in Bra is a opportunity for Italian short film directors to meet, to celebrate and to share their work with an enthusiastic public, while audiences will have the chance to see the best of the country’s short films.
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