WINNER
XXVIII edition 2003

IRAN, VEILED APPEARANCES

Thierry Michel
Belgium



Places and times of the festival
The 29th edition of the Festival will take place in the Spazio Oberdan in Via Vittorio Veneto 2, Milan. This is a multi-use cultural centre, planned and restructured by the architects Gae Aulenti and Carlo Lamperti and inaugurated in 1999. It is managed by the Province of Milan.

The films will be shown from 2nd to 7th April 2004:
17.00 – 24.00 on weekdays
14.00 – 24.00 on Saturdays and Sundays.


Admission to the Festival is free.


CONTENTS
The “International Tourist Film Festival” is a screening of a competitive nature, divided into several sections. It includes films (documentaries, fiction, television programmes and TV commercials) which embrace various themes: the environment, ethnography, culture, sport, exploration and the promotion of tourism. The formats of the works are documentaries, fiction, television programmes and TV commercials.
WHY FILMONDO
FILMONDO is an historic cinematographic festival which revolves around the idea of travel as a form of knowledge (in a wide sense) of places, cultures and people, both in geographical terms as well as social, historic, symbolic and imaginary. For this reason FILMONDO 2004 will include, within two of its existing sections “Getting to Know Man” and “Exploring Places”, both works of fiction and documentaries, or even works of animation: everyone of these languages for the images, and capable of making us “travel”, with our thoughts. They may sometimes be difficult journeys, as those in the 2003 edition which showed us populations running away from their countries of origin, or, as will feature this year, within big metropolises and cities, today perhaps the most “unexplored” and “mysterious” of places. FILMONDO 2004 will, as always, have competitive sections for television films, TV commercials and tourist promotion; as well as hosting special events, conferences, previews and international guests. Goodbye until FILMONDO 2004!

PARTICIPANTS
Companies for the production and distribution of audio-visual products, cinema schools, authors and directors, television networks, advertising and public relations agencies, state and local public administrative bodies, agencies for the promotion of tourism and tour operators.
HISTORY
The “International Tourist Film Festival” is the most important screening worldwide of films on tourism and some 50 countries take part in it. The Festival was created by Ezio Croci, editor of the magazine “Primi Piani”, in 1960. Since 1994 the screening has been taken over by ACTL in Milan.
PRIZES

Best Film

Best Film
in each section

Special Prizes
JURY
The jury consists of celebrities from the worlds of cinema, journalism and tourism. Those who have taken part in previous editions include the directors Krisztof Zanussi and Ugo Gregoretti, the cinema critic Claudio G. Fava, the Director of the “Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera” Fernando De Filippi, and various directors of other festivals, both Italian and foreign.
A.C.T.L. - Associazione per la Cultura e il Tempo Libero - MILAN