100 shorts competing at Maremetraggio

Maremetraggio is ready to celebrate its first tenth years of life with a special program for 2009 edition. It will be a gold edition, as the colour chosen for the festival catalogue of this year, with many meetings and novelties.
Numbers speak better than words: for Maremetraggio section, reserved to Italian and foreign shorts, there will be 100 films fighting for the Shop & Play Città Fiera prize, that will grant 10.000 euro to the best work of the selection. The selection includes 23 Italian shorts as well as 15 Spanish, 13 French and 12 German films. Among the shorts selected many european works, from Island to Lithuania, and some pearls extra EU: an Argentinian, a Canadian an a Israeli short, as well as a Swiss-Turkey co-production.
For Maremetraggio public, the festival will be the occasion for a tour of the world on the big screen. The rich and various program will be surely able to satisfy all lovers of cinema that from the 26th of June to the 4th of July will choose Trieste and Maremetraggio to give vent to their desire of strong emotions.