opening night
Today’s the day!
First guests are arriving to Izola, Lisandro Alonso and Pablo Trapero already arrived yesterday, while Roger Gnoan M’Bala , Hanny Tchelley-Etibou and Clark Walker joined us today.
The ‘Å kamp’ is filling up with campers and Punta is getting dressed up with bookstalls, workshops and music gear. The Happy DV crew is doing overtime, and you can already see the first results of their creative folly.
In the evening the Manzioli square will come alive with magnificent imagery from Destiny, a seminal work of Egyptian cinema by maestro Youssef Chahine. Later on, the festival pays tribute to the recently deceased giant of cinema, Jean Rouch, with a screening of his early masterpiece Moi, un noir (I, a Negro, 1958). The Algerian born and Switzerland based Mohammed Soudani comes to Izola with three films, one of which, War without images (Guerre sans images), is being shown this evening in the cinema ‘Kulturni Dom’. Film relates the author’s quest for truth about the genocide, which ravaged Algeria in the nineties, thirty years after Soudani left his homeland.
