SATURDAY NOVEMBER 3RD PROGRAM

• 4.00pm, Palazzo del Cinema e dei Congressi
  International Feature Film Competition
  CHIMERA
  (India, EAU, USA, 2018/80')
  Imagine a world without aging, injury, disease or death. Quint’s obsession with this utopian dream pushes him to the edge of his sanity. 
Rather than risk losing his dying children, Quint decides to freeze them alive, thereby preserving them in a cryonic ametabolic state. 
Meanwhile he feverishly researches genetic modifications that would give them the regenerative abilities of the “immortal” Turritopsis jellyfish. 
Quint’s experiments require human embryonic stem cells and this sets him on a collision course with his Masterson, a shadowy figure, whose bizarre motives trigger a chain of events with far-reaching consequences.
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• 6.00pm, Palazzo del Cinema e dei Congressi
  International Feature Film Competition
  BRAVO VIRTUOSO
  (France, Belgium, Armenia, 2018/107')
  Alik, 25, has been raised by his grandfather, conductor of a renowned classical orchestra in post-Soviet Armenia where cultural institutions are failing and oligarchs allied with the maphia hold power. Alik, a clarinettist, is the virtuoso in this orchestra whose existence is seriously threatened when its key sponsor is murdered.
  One night, Alik comes into possession of a hired killer’s mysterious telephone, which is used only to commission hits.
  Manipulated by a crook’s daughter with whom he falls hopelessly in love and wishing to save the orchestra at all costs, Alik decides to take on the identity of the killer known as “The Virtuoso” and attempt to carry out his contracts.
  But Alik is a virtuoso musician, not a killer...
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• 8.30pm, Palazzo del Cinema e dei Congressi
  SPECIAL EVENT WITH ANA ASENSIO
  Maurizio Principato conduce l'incontro con l'attrice e regista Ana Asensio.
  Following
  AWARD CEREMONY
  Assignment of Golden Ring for Best Feature Film, Silver Ring for Best Short Film and Critic's award for Best Feature Film Director. 
  Golden and Silver Rings are made by Marco Gerbella
  Medal to the value is made by Dusciana Bravura
  
  
• 9.30pm, Palazzo del Cinema e dei Congressi
  MOST BEAUTIFUL ISLAND
  (USA, 2018/87') by Ana Asensio
  Most Beautiful Island is a disenchanted and ironic title. Asensio, the director, underlines in the screenplay many of her fears and anxieties lived fand suffered firsthand when she was an immigrant in a not-so-welcoming country. In the film she turned them into a thriller following the protagonist in her attempts not only to survive, but also to escape to her own ghosts.
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