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São Paulo, Sinfonia da Metrópole

Via 6d: “Now in its 36th year, the Tampere International Short Film Festival continues its open-minded exploration of Planet Earth. This year’s Festival had a record number of entries. ‘More and more short films are produced around the world. Filmmaking is much cheaper and easier than it used to be. But of course it doesn’t mean that making a good film is any easier than before,’ says Festival Director Jukka-Pekka Laakso.”

This year’s program includes films dealing with the confrontation between Islam and Christian/secular cultures, such as Lieber Muslim (2005), which revolves around a young Chechen boy, and Zeina Durra’s American narrative short Seventh Dog (2005), a black comedy depicting the tragicomic life of two Arabs in New York City. "When we chose the themes a year ago,” says Laakso, “we didn’t know just how highly topical this issue would be.”

There’s also a focus on Brazilian films, including the screening of a 1929 rarity called São Paulo, Sinfonia da Metrópole, directed by Adalberto Kemeny and Rudolf Rex Lustig, and which was inspired by Walter Ruttmann’s 1927 film Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt / Berlin, Symphony of a Great City.

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