THERE WILL COME A DAY , the highly anticipated new film by Giorgio Diritti will compete for Italy at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, in the same category is a first time Italian/Chilean coproduction THE FUTURE by Alicia Scherson, taken from a novel by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño (this is the first screenplay adapted from one of his novels).
The two films have simetricaly opposite paths: Giorgio Diritti shows his leading actor Jasmine Trinca taking a journey down the Amazon river while Alicia Scherson’s characters arrive directly from Chile to Rome.
Diritti’s film significantly inaugurates 2013, formally known as the Year of Italian culture in the United States of America.
John Nein, Senior programmer for Sundance Film Festival stated: "The range of Italian cinema we considered this year was pretty remarkable. There were so many interesting, engaging, inventive films that it was sad we could not find a place for them all. But with 'There Will Come a Day', we see the kind of directorial vision and sophisticated storytelling that marks the world cinema competition at Sundance. We’re honored to have a filmmaker of Giorgio Diritti’s caliber at Sundance and eager to see an American audience his beautiful, meditative film. We’re also thrilled to have another film,'The Future', by Chilean filmmaker Alicia Scherson but set in Italy, at the festival. It’s another film with a brilliant, distinctive voice and a complex relationship between two fascinating characters. They are two very different illustrations of the diversity of Italian cinema."
Documentary THE LAST SHEPHERD by Marco Bonfanti continues its international career, started in October at Tokyo Fest, and will run in Slamdance selection.
The presence of Italian films at the Sundance Film Festival is organized by Istituto Luce-Cinecittà.