FUTURE FILM FESTIVAL 2010

The East is in Bologna from 26 to 31 January

The 12th edition of the Future Film Festival, the international festival of animation cinema and new technologies applied to the image, will take place in Bologna from 26 to 31 January 2010 at the Teatro Duse (Via Cartoleria 42) and at Palazzo Re Enzo ( Piazza del Nettuno) and, as usual, will dedicate a large part of its programming to new productions from Asia and in particular from Japan and Hong Kong. Since its origins, the FFF has brought the best of oriental productions to Bologna, becoming a unique opportunity to see unmissable works.

These are the films previewed at FFF2010:

FILM IN COMPETITION

First Squad: The Moment of Truth
by Yoshiharu Ashino (Japan / Russia)
The first animated co-production between Russia and Japan, the new film by Studio 4 ° C (Mindgame, Tekkonkinkreet) is a super-mystical war movie set in Russia during the Second World War.
Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror by Shinsuke Sato (Japan)
First film completely in computer graphics for the award-winning Production IG (Ghost in the Shell) studio, which transposes the visual fantasy of director Shinsuke Sato (The Princess Blade) into an incredible 3D world, for a sort of Alice in wonderland in salsa Japan.
Goemon by Kazuaki Kiriya (Japan)
New live action in costume directed by Kazuaki Kiriya, former director of the visionary blockbuster Casshern, also appreciated in Italy and preview of the FFF2006. Goemon, a hyperkinetic videogame film rich in visual effects, is centered on the eponymous character, who really existed and known as the "Japanese Robin Hood".
Mai Mai Miracle by Sunao Katabuchi (Japan)
MadHouse, one of the most important Japanese animation studios, returns to the FFF again this year with the new animated feature film Mai Mai Miracle, a delicate introspective and bucolic tale focused on two little girls discovering the world and an ancient local legend , which refers to the atmosphere of Heidi and the lesson of the master Isao Takahata.
King of Thorn by Kazuyoshi Katayama (Japan)
New cinematic film from the animation studio Sunrise (Gundam), the fictional horror King of Thorn is inspired by the cult manga of the same name created by Yuji Iwahara (published in Italy by Flashbook Edizioni) and set in the near future threatened by the very dangerous virus Medusa, capable of petrifying human flesh.

FILMS OUT OF COMPETITION

McDull, Kung Fu Kindergarten
by Brian Tse (Hong Kong / China / Japan)
From Hong Kong, the animated film that completes the tetralogy dedicated to the tender pig McDull, which began with My life as McDull and continued between the comedian and the nostalgic over the course of eight years. All previous episodes have been presented at the Future Film Festival, which has contributed to decree its success also in Italy.
Yukihiko Tsutsumi's 20th Century Boys Chapter 2: The Last Hope and Yukihiko Tsutsumi's 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption (Japan)
After 20th Century Boys Chapter 1, a blockbuster live action presented with great success last year at the Festival, the saga based on the homonymous manga by Naoki Urasawa continues with the two brand new feature films that close the trilogy. The saga tells of a group of former childhood friends grappling with the coming apocalypse, in a science fiction plot that mixes intrigues and conspiracies.
Yona Yona Penguin from Rintaro (Japan / France)
Fantastic-setting children's film that marks the debut in computer graphics for the MadHouse studio, in a Franco-Japanese co-production that sees veteran Rintaro (Metropolis, Captain Harlock) returning to directing.
Eureka Seven: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers by Tomoki Kyoda (Japan)
Based on the most popular robotic series of recent years, the new animated feature film by Studio Bones arrives at the FFF, already awarded at the last edition of the Festival for the refined animations of Sword of the Stranger.

MIDNIGHT MADNESS
The section was created to host curious out-of-competition films at the Festival, extreme in their genre, capable of trespassing into madness or horror and for which a night screening is reserved.
Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl by Yoshihiro Nishimura and Naoyuki Tomomatsu (Japan)
After the great success of the excessive splatter movie Tokyo Gore Police, director Yoshihiro Nishimura returns to the FFF, who, paired with Naoyuki Tomomatsu, former director of the cult Stacy, signs a new delirious horror "madness".

SeriesMania
The Future Film Festival, like every year, also presents the SeriesMania section, a showcase on the most interesting animated TV series that appeared in the last year, with Basquash !, a series by the Satelight animation studio and conceived by the animator Shoji Kawamori, author of the success by Macross, a curious hybrid between the robotic and sports genres: in the near future the most popular sport in the city's slums is a type of basketball aboard robots, whose shoes are specially designed by Nike.
Production IG, an animation studio known for cyberpunk works such as Ghost in the Shell, creates the Chocolate Underground series, designed for the web but also landed on other media: in a dystopian country governed by a paramilitary dictatorship, chocolate is banned by the health-conscious society and made illegal. The political resistance produces its own chocolate in the underground city, fomenting a culinary revolt that acquires a liberating value.
Toei Animation, major of Japanese animation famous for One Piece, produces two very special series: Flying Trapeze (also known as Welcome to Irabu's Office) is the new psychedelic work of Kenji Nakamura, the brilliant director of Ayakashi - Bakeneko, who experiments here the psychoanalytic interpretation of dreams through animation, while Marie & Gali, directed by Yukio Kaizawa, tries to tell the scientific discoveries with a surreal and amused tone through the meeting of the protagonist Marie with the greatest scientists in history, first of all Galileo Galilei, in his superdeformed version called Gali.
Even the new Meat or Die series, by the small Bonus.co.jp studio, already the creator of the Usevitch phenomenon, focuses on the brevity of idiotic sketches: protagonists two clumsy monsters in perennial search for food, destined for the most disastrous failure as in the best tradition of Wile Coyote and Bip Bip.
One of the anime classics also returns, Go Nagai's timeless Mazinger Z, in the brand new Mazinger Edition Z: The Impact! Series: a modern reinterpretation of the robot prince that honors the complexity of the original story.

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