The 10 titles competing in the 25th edition of the Lecce European Film Festival - unspooling in the Salentine capital between 9 and 16 November - hail from Denmark, Luxembourg, France, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Germany, Serbia, Norway, Greece and Portugal. In addition to the movies competing for the Golden Olive, we’ll see works gracing the “Cinema and Reality" section for Italian documentaries, those selected for the “Puglia Show” competition for short films directed by young Apulian helmers under the age of 35, those battling it out for the Mario Verdone and Emidio Greco awards, and the protagonists of European and Italian cinema: Ken Loach and Giovanna Mezzogiorno.

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Selected by director Alberto La Monica together with Luigi La Monica, this year’s films in competition are: B.O.Y. - Bruises of Yesterday by Søren Green, Breathing Underwater by Eric Lamhène, Clear Nights by Paulo Filipe Monteiro, Drowning Dry [+lee también:
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entrevista: Laurynas Bareiša
ficha de la película] by Laurynas Bareiša, Jim’s Story [+lee también:
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entrevista: Arnaud y Jean-Marie Larrieu
ficha de la película] by Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu, Martin Reads the Quran [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Jurijs Saule, Mother Mara [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Mirjana Karanovic, My Wonderful Stranger by Johanna Pyykkö, Three Days of Fish [+lee también:
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entrevista: Peter Hoogendoorn
ficha de la película] by Peter Hoogendoorn, and Wishbone by Penny Panayotopoulou. The jury assessing them is presided over by Luciana Castellina and further composed of Pascal Diot, Francesco Ranieri Martinotti, Hanna Slak and Heather Stewart.

Six titles feature in the “Cinema and Reality" section, dedicated to Italian documentaries in regional premieres and devised to lend visibility to crucial social and cultural themes: Real [+lee también:
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entrevista: Adele Tulli
ficha de la película] by Adele Tulli, Arte vs guerra - Banksy and C215 in Borodyanka, Ukraine by Michele Pinto, I santi di carta by Enzo Pascal Pezzuto, L’ulivo e il baobab by Serena Porta, The Erasmus Generation by Vincent Imperato and La cura della giustizia by Vito Palmieri.

Ken Loach will be the protagonist of European cinema, forming the focus of a tribute curated by Massimo Causo, consisting of a retrospective of the films which best represent his career, a conversation with Luciana Castellina, and the awarding of the Golden Olive Lifetime Achievement trophy. Eights of his films will be presented: Riff Raff (1991), Raining Stones (1993), Land and Freedom (1995), Bread and Roses (2000), The Wind that Shakes the Barley [+lee también:
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entrevista: Ken Loach
entrevista: Rebecca O’Brien
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entrevista: Ken Loach
ficha de la película] (2012), I, Daniel Blake [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (2016), and The Old Oak [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (2023).

Giovanna Mezzogiorno, for her part, will be the protagonist of Italian cinema and the focus of a tribute revolving around six films from her multifaceted career as an actress and a presentation of her short film Unfitting (2024), which is her directorial debut on the topic of body shaming. Mezzogiorno will also meet with the audience and receive the Golden Olive Lifetime Achievement Award. Other movies set to be screened besides Unfitting are: Il viaggio della sposa by Sergio Rubini (1997), Del perduto amore by Michele Placido (1998), The Last Kiss by Gabriele Muccino (2001), Facing Windows [+lee también:
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entrevista: Ferzan Ozpetek
ficha de la película] by Ferzan Ozpetek (2003), Don’t Tell [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Cristina Comencini (2005), and Vincere [+lee también:
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entrevista: Cannes 2009 Marco Belloc…
entrevista: Filippo Timi - actor
ficha de la película] by Marco Bellocchio (2009).

The 5 titles which are finalists for the 15th edition of the Mario Verdone Prize, as selected by Lecce Film Festival Director La Monica alongside the board of the Union of Italian Film Journalists (SNGCI) presided over by Laura Delli Colli, are: Gloria! [+lee también:
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entrevista: Margherita Vicario
ficha de la película] By Margherita Vicario, An Endless Sunday [+lee también:
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entrevista: Alain Parroni
ficha de la película] by Alain Parroni, True Blue [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Filippo Barbagallo, Oceans are the Real Continents [+lee también:
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entrevista: Tommaso Santambrogio
ficha de la película] by Tommaso Santambrogio, and Unbelievers [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Alessandro Marzullo. As always, the winner is set to be announced by Carlo, Luca and Silvia Verdone. This year will also see the Mario Verdone Special Prize awarded to Brando De Sica for Mimì – Prince of Darkness [+lee también:
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Last but not least, Lecce will also host the showcase dedicated to the Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, boasting a selection of graduate films by students from various colleges within Italy’s National Film School, the regional premiere of a restored version of Nanni Moretti’s Ecce Bombo, and a tribute to Tyrone Power, 110 years since his birth.