The Lucca Film Festival is a cinema season held at Cinema Centrale and San Girolamo Theatre, in the centre of Lucca.
The festival, organised by the Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca Foundation has the aim of promoting the awareness and diffusion of new and interesting work by international artists, while rediscovering and screening ‘historical’ films that have shaped artistic cinema – a meeting point between the past and present.
Over the years the festival has hosted and paid homage to key figures such as Abel Ferrara, Tsai Ming-Liang, the Taviani brothers, Jonas Mekas, Kenneth Anger and David Lynch, who was the protagonist of the festival in October 2014.
The eleventh edition of the Lucca Film Festival, that from this year unites with the European Cinema Festival of Viareggio, is dedicated to the Canadian director, producer and screenwriter David Cronenberg.
The event runs from 15 to 21 March and features a retrospective of Cronenberg’s films.
The three international exhibitions dedicated to him, organised by the Nuovi Eventi per Lucca Committee in partnership with the Festival and produced by the Toronto International Film Festival and Volumina in Turin, will run from 15 February to 3 May.
Meetings, exhibitions, concerts and talks, attended by the director himself, also enrich what will be another unmissable edition of the Lucca film festival.
Details:
Lucca Film Festival via delle Tagliate II°, traversa I°, n 64 55100 Lucca
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The Festival’s president is Nicola Borelli. Funded by the Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca Foundation, with support from Regional Authorities of Tuscany, Lucca Town Council, Banca del Monte di Lucca Foundation and the collaboration of the Provincial Authorities of Lucca.
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