From "Nomad" by Herzog (Detour Film Festival press office photo)
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25 May 2021From 3 to 6 June 2021 the Detour Film Festival returns to the cinema at the MultiAstra Cinema in Padua to meet its audience again. The eighth edition of the festival, postponed last year due to the pandemic, will take place with a careful selection of international cinema dedicated to travel cinema. In fact, the Festival will propose unreleased films in Italy, coming from the main Italian and foreign film festivals. The aim is to present to the public a rich and heterogeneous selection of cinematographic works related to the theme of travel in its many incarnations, as a meeting place between different and distant cultures and traditions.
"Presenting the festival today in a cinema that reopens after so many months of darkness is for us an act of courage and trust towards the public and the cinema itself", says Marco Segato, artistic director of the Festival. "Detour thrives on the cultural and social relationship between people, of encounter and comparison. Without this the project would not have the same strength, the same value. We are convinced that the desire that cinema nourishes will return to nourish our imagination. A special thanks go to the many collaborators who with perseverance and passion have made this new edition possible and to the partners who have been close to us in recent months ".
The opening event that will inaugurate the festival will be on Thursday 3 June at 8.00 pm the screening of "Nomad. In the footsteps of Bruce Chatwin" (documentary, Great Britain 2019), a moving tribute to the writer and traveler Bruce Chatwin by the great master of cinema Werner Herzog, one of the greatest directors of our time, an attentive observer of extreme worlds who manages to tell with an intimate yet powerful style.
The International Competition, a competitive section dedicated to feature films and documentary films, the real heart of the Festival, will start from Friday 4 June. This year eight works have been selected to compete for the Best Film Award. The winner will be a jury made up of industry professionals: Raffaella Giancristofaro, professional journalist and film critic. Martina Melilli, audio-visual artist and director. Filippo Meneghetti, director and screenwriter. The Audience Award will also be awarded.