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Italian job well done in Bari
RITA DI SANTO reports on the best of the city's international film festival
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ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
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DEEP in the hustle and bustle of the port of Bari in southern Italy beats a cosmopolitan heart and at its centre is the Bari international film festival BIFEST, now in its ninth year.
This time round, BIFEST featured the work of directors of the calibre of Gianni Amelio, Marco Bellocchio and Ferzan Ozpetek, alongside rising talents such as Vincenzo Marra, Paolo Sassanelli, Roberta Torre and Roberto De Paolis.
Special events included a concert paying homage to Alberto Trovajoli, one of the great Italian film composers, a restored version of Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris and a retrospective on maverick director Marco Ferreri.
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