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Slow Food on Film Comes to Bra
A Return Home for the Shorts About Food |
 Shorts à la carte. For one evening, Corto in Bra will once again host short films about food, with a program that distills the best of Slow Food on Film 2009. The celebration of film and food moved to Bologna in 2008, becoming a major international festival promoted by the Cineteca di Bologna, but it originated in 2002 in Bra, Slow Food’s home town, as a section of Corto in Bra. Here it grew and prospered for three editions of the festival, until 2006.
This year will see a return home, a confirmation of the unbroken link with Corto in Bra – for example, artistic directors Stefano Sardo, Luca Busso and Luisa Grosso are also involved in Slow Food on Film.
A mouthwatering collection of human follies relating to food, the program brings together deliciously crazy slices of gastronomic imagination, a spicy selection of unconventional and disorientating films for the boldest of palates.
Familiar ideas about food are deformed and distorted, transformed into a kaleidoscope accentuating the tartest notes, from a TV-addict mother’s fatal distractions in the kitchen in La Dinde Marinée (A Juicy Turkey) to the neuroses of a consumer in Thé noir (Black Tea – 2009 Golden Snail winner), from the main character’s metamorphosis into a deer in La Monique de Joseph (Joseph’s Monique) to a student’s eating disorders in Bom-e-pi-eo-na-da (Blooming in Spring).
Take a seat at the out-of-control dinner party in Awkward, see how food heals family wounds in Basilicum&brandnetels (Basil&Nettles), laugh at the musical La chaîne du froid (The Cold Chain) and the black comedy of the ethnic mix in Dinner for Four and follow a little pig’s quest for adoptive parents in Pig Me and the torments of a chef in love in The Chef’s Letter. This completely unorthodox menu of shorts is sure to satiate even the hungriest cine-gourmet.
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