Overview of the second edition of Detour Travel Film Festival

DETOUR 2013 - Detour. Travel Film Festival Padova, 15/20 October 2013

After the success of the first edition of DETOUR Travel Film Festival, here is a preview of the new

edition which will take place in Padova from 15 to 20 October 2013.

The International Competition, like last year, will present in one section feature films and

documentary films connected to the theme of the journey, film which have participated in festivals

both in Italy and abroad, but have not found official distribution on Italian screens yet.

The call is officially open and will close on the 8th of June 2013; all information are available on

our website: www.detourfilmfestival.com .

The Festival awards three prizes: Best Film Award, Special Jury Award and Audience Award.

This year Best Film Award will be sponsored by Trivellato Spa for the prize of 3.000 euros.

Many are the novelties in this second edition, starting with the Homage to Wes Anderson,

American director critically beloved for works such as The Royal Tanenbaum, The Life Acquatic

with Steve Zissou, and the recent Moonrise Kingdom. Anderson’s characters are often running from

a world where rules are too strict. Their romantic and existentialist sudden getaways often mark the

distance from oppressing families in a severe society that has lost all pleasures of imagination.

Viaggio in Italia is a new section and will host Italian films that have portrayed and still portray our

Country. An occasion to re-watch masterpieces by great cinematographers of the past while

discovering films by emerging directors. Roberto Rossellini’s Viaggio in Italia, restored by Cineteca

di Bologna and presented in Cannes last year, will inaugurate this new section.

With Detour we have conceived a festival where cinema and travel meet and melt together in new

unpredictable forms. The first edition has set the direction, the second will expand horizons,

especially towards emerging authors whose films fill all great International festivals yet hardly ever

reach our theatres and tvs.

It will be five intense days of films, meetings, workshops and other events to live a unique

experience. For those who follow us, the idea of travelling at the cinema, with cinema, couldn’t get

any closer to real.

Marco Segato – Artistic Director of the Festival