BROCHURE_ITA2010.pdf

Brochure_2010_ENG.pdf

After Forty years Giffoni talks about love. Even though one may rightly affirm it hasn't thought about anything else but love for the past forty years. When we look back at the themes suggested by the festival throughout the years love is all around. Desire, energy, emotion, discovery, boundaries, choice, journey, dream: These are all fragments of a never ending Love speech.

But what do we talk about when we talk about love? To quote the title of a book by Raymond Carver. Talking about love now is like evoking an antidote to ugliness in times where all seems to move into darkness and it is easier to focus on oneself rather than open up to others.

Love, for us, means respecting the other, desire of the other, opening your heart to the other. Love has the power to change the world, move boundaries and modify the way the world indeed looks. As the protagonist of THE VILLAGE (William Hurt) says in one of the most important and intense scenes:
"Although my daughter is blind, she is more capable than many of us. She is driven by love. World moves for love. It kneels before it with admiration".

This is what we want to talk about in Giffoni: Through our films, the meetings between talent and jurors, and thanks to the scores of initiatives that make up the festival programme. We want to talk about this immense energy running through and feeding our existences, this Divine human nourishment, the feeling running through our days which takes on infinite shapes.

We will try and look at all the other aspects of love, talk about sick love, too much love (and the consequent damage) and the lack of love.

One theme, scores of interpretations.