Taking place in Capriolo, in the province of Brescia, right in the heart of Franciacorta, the first Capriolo Film Festival is unfolding—a three-day program of screenings, discussions and events devoted to the seventh art.
Yesterday, the festival’s opening session starred Davide Perino, one of the most recognizable voices in Italian dubbing. From Elijah Wood as Frodo in the Lord of the Rings trilogy to Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network, and to Eddie Redmayne in the Fantastic Beasts saga, Perino has accompanied generations of viewers without many people knowing the face behind those characters. On stage he retraced his career through anecdotes, encounters, and curiosities of a craft that demands much more than the ability to imitate a voice. Between behind-the-scenes stories and reflections on the relationship between actor and dubber, he brought to life a lively encounter, capable of winning over the audience and transforming a cinema conversation into an opportunity to uncover the less visible mechanisms of filmmaking.
“We are very satisfied with the audience response on this first day,” declared Luca Liguori, the festival’s artistic director. “The meeting with Davide Perino demonstrated how fascinating it is to discover what happens behind the images. Cinema is made up of many professionals and stories that deserve to be told. Watching the audience engage with curiosity is the best way to begin this inaugural edition.”
Today, Saturday November 14, the festival resumes from the Auditorium BCC Basso Sebino, crossing styles and approaches to making cinema. At 9:30 a.m. the screening of A School Day, followed by a discussion on autism with Dr. Moira Faustini. At 11:15 we enter the world of stop motion, where objects come to life one frame at a time and movement arises from patient, almost artisanal work. In the afternoon, the program shifts to short films, with Juggernaut at 5:00 p.m. and Homo Homini Lupus at 6:00 p.m., both accompanied by conversations with their respective directors. Two opportunities to delve into the creative process and discover how a cinematic story is built even in a few minutes.
The most anticipated moment of the second day arrives this evening at Multisala Gemini, where at 8:30 p.m. Federico Zampaglione will take the spotlight. Musician, frontman of Tiromancino and filmmaker, Zampaglione has forged a personal cinematic path over the years, choosing thriller and horror as terrains to explore fears, obsessions and the darker sides of human nature. A cinema that works on atmosphere and tension, in which sound and image contribute to crafting an experience that goes beyond a simple narrative. The encounter will give the audience the chance to trace his career behind the camera, among influences, artistic choices and that enduring link between music and cinema that has always threaded through his work. At 9:30 p.m. follows the screening of The Nameless Ballad, the brand-new horror film directed by Zampaglione.
The Capriolo Film Festival will continue on Sunday November 15 with a day dedicated to the great confrontations in the history of cinema: Tim Burton and Guillermo del Toro, Steven Spielberg and James Cameron. In closing, a tribute to Christopher Nolan with the screening of The Prestige, twenty years after its release.
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