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The Festival's history
In 2001 the Infinity Festival project was born and developed with the goal of creating a place for discussion and study. One of its aims has been to discover, through the language of cinema, the most complete dimension of the existential search of contemporary man.
Travelling innovative roads, it has carried forward its own peculiar searches, characterizing itself as a singular and much appreciated meeting place for professionals, students and enthusiasts. Until now it has given visibility to nearly 500 films, among the titles of the fiction and documentary competitions, the retrospectives to great directors of contemporary cinema (Kawase Naomi, Nicholas Philibert, Andrei Koncalovskij, Maurizio Nichetti, Jerry Schatzberg) and emerging authors (Raphaël Nadjari, Hong Sangsoo, Teresa Villaverde, Pasquale Scimeca, Laila Pakalnina…).
Over 5,000 accredited professionals, 600 foreign guests and over 50,000 spectators flowed in and out, also thanks to a series of seminars conducted in collaboration with some twenty Italian universities.
In 2006, the Associazione del Cinema Spirituale, which created the Festival, decided to change the event’s name to the Alba International Film Festival in order to underline its importance on the national and international film festival scene. The name was also changed in recognition of the leading role played by Alba – and by the Langhe in general – in defining the character of the festival.
In 2007, after the successful edition in March (12,000 numbers of audience in six days), the Festival decided to create a partnership with the ciry of Alba and above all with Cinema corto in Bra, a film festival dedicated to short-length films in the near town of Bra.
After several years of absent-minded neighbourliness, Alba International Film Festival and Cinema Corto in Bra decided to give birth together to a “ten-days-of-film-experience”, from March 7th until March 17th 2008, that will represent a great cultural opportunity and a significant chance for tourism in the region. Alba will open on March 7th and will pass the baton to Bra on March 12th, when the closing and opening ceremonies of the two events will take turns, under the eyes of many exceptional guests from the film world. |
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