The fifth edition of the Festival will take place in Palermo, between the 18th and the 25th of July 2010.
The documentary film festival “Sole Luna” is an international prize-winning competition on Mediterranean and Islamic cultures and traditions.
“Sole Luna” represents an high-quality mean of communication that is based on activities and innovative events intended to create a positive dialogue. From the first edition, the festival has gained relevance, involving a wider and more refined audience. Sole Luna creates a unique kind of film festival. The films within Sole Luna Festival are the starting point for a series of questions that bring the audience together to deepen the knowledge of the other cultures: Who truly knows all the populations, the customs, the traditions and the arts of the countries that surround the Mediterranean? Who does not feel the need to deepen the knowledge of the Muslim world, the subject everyone talks about, the world each of us wants to understand for different reasons?
Year by year the festival has been growing in importance; it has gained an international position in the sphere of documentary festivals. For this reason, the screenings and some of the past events have been planned to be proposed again and scheduled as reviews in different schools, at universities, in the Italian Institutes of Culture and abroad.
The new edition of the Festival will run from July 18 - July 25 2010, award night on July 25. Every night, the films will be presented and commended by illustrious names in the international cultural scene, invited by Sole Luna Festival. Apart from showcasing films, festival has expanded to include exclusive concerts, shows, exhibitions that will improve the quality of the contents and the cultural experiences of "Sole Luna".
The Films in competition will be saved in the Archive of the “Filmoteca Regionale Siciliana” that is one of the principal point of reference for a study of the Italian filmography.
ORGANIZATION
President - Lucia Gotti Venturato
Artistic Director - Giovanni Massa
Scientific Director - Gabriella D’Agostino
Technical Director - Renzo Milan
Organizational Secretariat – Alessandra Amorello
SECTIONS IN COMPETITION:
ISLAM
This section includes the most relevant international films that deal with Islamic culture. All kind of documentaries, TV series, scientific, ethnographic and socio cultural surveys, researches about customs and traditions of any Islamic country/area are accepted.
MEDITERRANEAN
This section includes the most relevant international films which deal with the sea and the Mediterranean coast: fauna, flora and sea ecosystem; as well as stories of journeys around the Mediterranean countries and their costumes, traditions, cultures, civilizations. In addition, all kind of surveys, reportages, studies dealing with the Mediterranean Sea and the landscape of the coast are also accepted.
TRIBUTES AND RETROSPECTIVES (OUT OF COMPETITION)
This out-of-competition section includes documentary films selected on the basis of their historical or artistic value by the scientific and artistic committee.
PRIZES AND JURY
- Prize “bridge between cultures”, prize awarded to the film that best expresses the values of solidarity and communication between people. These values represent the main aim of the Association.
- Prize section Islam
- Prize section Mediterranean
- Prize best direction
- Prize best photography
- Prize best editing
- Prize for most innovative documentary, to the film that uses the components of the cinematographic language in the most creative way (direction, editing, photography, sound etc.)
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-Audience prize, prize awarded to the winning feature film on the basis of an audience ballot.
The Jury
Robert Cahen – Director, France
Franco D’Agostino – Assyriologist, Università “La Sapienza”, Italy
Kevin Dwyer – Anthropologist, American University of Cairo, USA
Carol Mansour – Director, Lebanon
Tessa Rosenfeld – Artist and writer, Italy
