With open eyes and an open mind, the festival looks back at the history of cinema as well as on what is happening today. This programme brings the creative explorations of a wide range of talented and brave directors together in one place. Some films have been wrongly overlooked, while others have become golden cinema classics.
To celebrate the centenary of his birth, the focus of this year’s retrospective is on Italian director, writer, painter, social activist, and thinker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975). The Bologna-born filmmaker brought cinema closer to poetry by identifying and borrowing from its cinematic characteristics and metrics. He developed a provocative directing style and was able to legitimise his ideas into a variety of genres.

The programme includes all the focal points from his oeuvre, starting with anger in Corinth to sadism in the Republic of Salo. “I think to scandalise is a right, to be scandalised is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalised are moralists.”