21. Int. Film Festival Innsbruck | 5 to 10 June 2012

Sections of the 21st International Film Festival Innsbruck

Apart from the annual competitionsinternational feature fiction competition, feature documentary competition, Südwind-Filmpreis and audience award, the following sections will be part of this years’ festival programme:

An homage dedicated to German-Argentinean director Jeanine Meerapfel (*1943) will feature, among others, her most famous movie La Amiga (Argentina, 1988), for which Liv Ullman obtained the prize as best actress in San Sebastian. Meerapfel, who will attend the festival, will be awarded this year’s prize of honor.

Furthermore the festival programme highlights the work of filmmaker Giovanna Taviani. Her movie Fughe e approdi (2010) tells the story of the inhabitants of Italy’s seven Aeolian Islands through their extensive and versatile common film history. The festival bill contains the addressed movies like Roberto Rosselini’s Stromboli (1949) and Antonioni's L'Avventura. The actress and documentary filmmaker, who is one of the festival’s star guests, is the daughter of Vittorio Taviani, winner of the Berlin Golden Bear 2012.

Algeria is the subject of another festival section. 50 years ago the North African country gained independence from France after a brutal war. In view of this occasion various movies, including Gille Pontecorvo’s La Battaglia di Algeri (I/Algeria 1966), are screened. This classic movie about the months of battle of Algeri will be shown at the IFFI in a reconstructed version.

Pertaining to tradition there is another programme section at the IFFI called South.Eastern.Europe. To develop the twinning arrangement between Sarajevo and Innsbruck which has existed since 1980, movies from the bill of Sarajevo Film Festival are screened. Therefore Ines Tanović, a young film maker from Sarajevo, will present her movie A day on the drina (Bosnia, 2010) to the audience in Innsbruck and will hold a movie workshop for pupils of the HTL.

For the short film section the IFFI will bring short movies from places far away to Innsbruck. In addition to the international selection movies from a closer environment will be shown. Cinema Next, a young initiative from Vienna and the well-known Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (GER) will bring a selections of short films to Innsbruck. Their representatives will be guests of the festival and join a discussion about the applicability of short movies in regular cinema programmes.