Tornatore receive new festival award in Murcia Ibn Arabi on the trip.
Murcia, July 22 .- The Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore, who won an Oscar in 1990 for his film "Cinema Paradiso", you will receive in Murcia in February 2011 the prize of honor of the new international film festival Ibn Arabi, dedicated to travel, to be held in the center castle gate, the municipality of Murcia.
According to reports the organization in, ffxiv gil, a statement, the official competition section, which has opened the deadline for receipt of movies until next 10 December, will be selected by a jury of film professionals from Tunisia, Russia, China, United States Cuba, Italy and Spain, that would give a single prize of 6,000 euros for the best movie.
In this section we welcome short and long fiction and documentary or animation that, jumpgate evolution credits, revolve around the journey in all its possible manifestations, ranging from physical and geographical voyages to the internal human insights, even spiritual.
Three other sections complete the program: Screen Hall, for young filmmakers, with the same theme, a sample of films won awards at festivals similar cut like Cine Pobre, Havana, or the Tiburon, the eponymous California town, and, aika gold, a retrospective of the entire filmography of director honored in this case, Tornatore.
Sicilian director, born in Palermo in 1956, were projected "Baaria" (2009), "The Unknown" (2006), "Malena" (2000), "The Legend of the Pianist on the Ocean" (1998), "Man of the Stars "(1995)," A Pure Formality, "" They are all well "(1990)," The Professor "(1986) and" Cinema Paradiso "(1988), which also won the Golden Globe and the jury prize Cannes festival.
The festival is named after the great Sufi mystic, born in Murcia in 1165, whose vast journey of tireless traveler from Al Andalus took him to all countries of the Maghreb, reaching the most important cities of the Middle East of his time and eventually saturate Damascus, the Syrian capital today, where he died in 1240.
His conception of geographical and internal travel in search of self, of life experience that promotes respect for all cultures and beliefs, and the pursuit of beauty and love in all the everyday things, is the spirit that says claim the new festival, which convened earlier this year handed his award honorary Iranian film director Majid Majidi.
To celebrate the birth of this new festival, the organizing center tonight to take out the street a mobile cinema projections to conduct travel related short for 15 minutes in different parts of the city of Murcia.
