Cultivating cinema. That is to sow, heal and then reap. The Locarno Film Festival is looking for ten new talents who will be the protagonists of the Spring Academy , the project carried out in collaboration with CISA which accompanies young talents in the making of their first feature film.
With the call opened in mid-November, we are looking for young people who can craft a film in a few days, together with an exceptional guide: the Golden Bear winner Radu Jude. A Spring Academy to make a new cinema sprout from the past. Whereas in the first editions directors were able to shoot together and then experience the editing phase alone, this year we wanted to reverse the scales, providing them with a huge pool of existing images, to be used according to their sensitivity during the Spring Academy, which will therefore focus on editingΒ».
Ten talents plus one, Radu Jude. Now, for a project like this, he really was the ideal guide. In his films, he has always reflected on the distance between storytelling and history, between the representation of Romanian history and what really happened; he will be a companion and an invaluable gaze for these ten journeys through the RSI archives Β».
Meanwhile, the short films made in and continue to travel. And that's exactly what we're aiming for: trespassingΒ». I n the coming days, another new project, the Residency, will cross over to Venice. Then, in March, the three of them will stay in Locarno for an entire month to write the actual screenplay for the filmΒ». A journey from shorts to features. The Residency , made possible thanks to the support of Swiss Life, is one of them; it is a project and vision that nurtures Locarno.
Discovery, new languages, new filmmaking are the lifeblood of Locarno, of its program, of its cinema. We need them, their gazes and that which perhaps, one day, they will be able to tell us precisely with their films, in LocarnoΒ».
