Lucca Film Festival


The Lucca Film Festival is a film festival in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. It was founded in 2005 by the “Vista Nova” organization.

Purpose

Its purpose is to offer its audience a new approach to cinema; to promote a cinematographic culture made of a plurality of sights, styles and perspectives; and, most of all, to introduce attendees to a new sensory and intellectual experience Throughout the years, the Lucca Film Festival has dealt with the various contrasts of today’s cinema: avant-garde, experimental and mainstream. Attendees to the LFF have included important directors, actors and international artists, like Kenneth Anger, Jonas Mekas, Tsai Ming-liang, Michael Snow, Paolo Taviani,, Lou Castel, Abel Ferrara, Philippe Garrel, György Pálfi, Antoni Padrós, Benedek Fliegauf, Peter Greenaway, John Boorman, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Terry Gilliam, William Friedkin, George A. Romero, Marco Bellocchio, Paolo Sorrentino.

Editions

More than 500 works from all around the world, selected by some of the most important international festivals, are competing in the short-film contest. The competition includes 4 sections: Fiction, Documentary, Experimental and Animation. The final selection is judged by an international jury of experts.
YearTitleDirectorOrigin
2007De SortieThomas SalvadorFR
2008Vertigo RushJohann LurfAU
2009Cada cuatro fotogramasAlberto Cabrera BernalES
2010LichtAndré SchreudersNL
2011SongEponine MomenceauFR
2012Go burning Atacama GoAlberto GemmiIT/DE
2013Studio per interno con figure e suoniRick NiebeIT
Ex aequo Mirror by mirrorSergei Sviatchenko and Noriko OkakuDK/UK
2014Red MillEsther Urlus
2015Jazz For a massacreLeonardo Carrano and Giuseppe Spina
2016Black CodeLouis Henderson

Feature film competition

In 2016 Lucca Film Festival introduced the international Feature film competition. The winner of the 2016 edition is "Paradise" by the Iranian director Sina Ataeian Dena

Festival venues

Screenings

2006 edition

Tributes to affirmed characters involved in the international cinema scene
Retrospectives about a particular theme, country or category
Special events, projections, performances
Retrospectives about the most influential characters involved in experimental and avant-garde cinema
Tributes to affirmed characters involved in the international cinema scene
Retrospectives about other characters involved in independent and experimental cinema
Retrospectives about a particular theme, country or category
Retrospectives about emerging artists of experimental cinema, matched with works' exposition
Special evenets, projections, performances
Expositions
Retrospectives about the main characters involved in independent and experimental cinema
Tributes to well-known characters involved in the international cinema scene
Retrospectives about other artists of experimental cinema
Tribute to young directors working in mainstream cinema with innovative ideas and positions
Retrospectives about a particular theme, country or category
Retrospectives about emerging artists of experimental cinema, matched with works' exposition
Special events, projections, performances
Expositions
Retrospectives about the main characters involved in independent and experimental cinema
Tributes to well-known actors working in international cinema
Tribute to young directors working in mainstram cinema with innovative ideas and positions
Retrospectives about a particular theme, country or category
Expositions
Retrospectives about the main characters involved in independent and experimental cinema
Tributes to well-known directors working in international cinema
Retrospectives about other characters involved in independent and experimental cinema
Tribute to young directors working in mainstram cinema with innovative ideas and positions
Retrospectives about a particular theme, country or category
All the events took place in Lu.CCA - Lucca Center of Contemporary Art - Via della Fratta 36

2011 edition

Retrospectives about the main characters involved in independent and experimental cinema
Retrospectives about other characters involved in independent and experimental cinema
Retrospectives about a particular theme, country or category
Special events, projections, performances
Expositions
Retrospectives about the main characters involved in independent and experimental cinema
Tributes to well-known directors involved in the international cinema scene
Tribute to young directors working in mainstram cinema with innovative ideas and positions
Special events, projections, performances
Retrospectives about the main characters involved in independent and experimental cinema
Tributes to well-known directors involved in the international
Tribute to young directors working in mainstram cinema with innovative ideas and positions
Special events, Projections, Performances
Retrospectives about the main characters involved in independent and experimental cinema
Tributes to well-known directors involved in the international cinema scene
Tributes to well-known actors involved in the international cinema scene
Special events, projections, performances
Retrospectives about the main characters involved in independent and experimental cinema
Tributes to well-known directors involved in the international cinema scene
Tributes to well-known actors involved in the international cinema scene
Tribute to young directors working in mainstream cinema with innovative ideas and positions
Special events, projections, performances, David Cronenberg exhibitions
Lucca Effetto Cinema - Notte 2015