CINEMA CORTO IN BRA
Bra is a short name for a town, a small provincial town where big things sometimes happen, like Cinema Corto in Bra, a film festival with an International outlook that attracts thousands of people from the world, the region, the province and the houses of Bra, showing and promoting works from young global cinema, the most impetuous, the most free, the most timid and aggressive, the most critical and intimate, all full of happy contradictions.
This year sees the return of Corto in Bra, the festival dedicated to short films, filling the piazzas and courtyards of Bra's historic center with stories from young world cinema. This tenth edition will be an important opportunity to look back and trace the festival's history, as well as looking forward and planting the seeds for the years to come.
This celebratory edition comes at a difficult time for our country's cultural sector, with debates raging over funding and above all culture's role in society.
Like Andrea Camilleri, we believe that "The first man who rubbed two sticks together to make a spark, which he used to start a fire, which he used to cook buffalo meat, made culture." We want to keep that fire alight now more than ever, and that's why we'll be training the projectors on the mega-screen in Piazza Cavour, recounting stories of other men and other women.
Thanks to the City of Bra and the many public and private institutions that support us, we will once again be bringing young world cinema to Bra.
Three evenings in Piazza Caduti per la Libertà will offer a grand overview of the festival's history, from 1996 on.
The stories of Cinema Corto in Italia, the International Shorts, the Shorts to Laugh About, Slow Food on Film, Shorts and Music and the winner of the City of Bra Prize 2010 will fill the screen on the festival's first two evenings. The last evening will be dedicated to a special guest, a director who started out at Corto in Bra before moving on to feature films.
As always, there will be discussions, music and parties in the piazzas and squares of Bra's baroque town center.
Corto in Bra 2011. The fire burns on.
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