from 13/11/2010 to 20/11/2010

Festival dei Popoli - Film Documentary Festival

 Festival dei Popoli 51

The 51 edition of Festival dei Popoli - Festival Internazionale del Film Documentario- will take place in Florence from November 13 to 20, 2010, an event now included in the European Coordination of Cinema Festivals.

The Festival dei Popoli offers a broad panorama of documentaries, showing us the varied facets and its always renewed capacity to tell the story of reality, offering images of people and countries, portraits of men and women, stories coming from around the world.

The Festival encourages the reflection on the most relevant contemporary topics, giving the audience the opportunity to interact with documentary-makers, experts in the work and personality of the world of performance.

In its long history, the Festival has seen on its own screens the best documentary production at an international level and has made known to its audience the most noted authors of the sector like Jean Rouch, Ken Loach, Vittorio de Seta, Fred Wiseman.

As every year, the exhibition will boast different sections: "Selezione Ufficiale" divided into short films and feature films, Homage/Retrospectives, Seminars, Round Tables, Special Events.

Information

The exhibition will mainly develop in the Cinema Odeon Piazza degli Strozzi - Florence
Others places of the festival will be the Cinema Stensen and the Cinema Spazio Uno

Festival dei Popoli
Istituto Italiano per il Film di Documentazione Sociale
Borgo Pinti 82 rosso - Firenze
Tel +39 055 244778
Fax +39 055 241364
e-mail festivaldeipopoli@festivaldeipopoli.191.it

How to reach Cinema Odeon

By bus
With the lines 6, 11, 22, 36, 37, 68, To, B that reaches Piazza degli Strozzi

By train
From the Station Santa Maria Novella it can be reached in about 10 minutes by foot