Always attentive to investigating the transformation of languages, methods of communication and representation of reality through art, Futuro Presente continues along an adventurous and stimulating path of research and reflection outlined this year by the theme-title More Real Than Real.

The sixth edition of the Festival, which has moved and moves between cinema, music, performing and visual arts, literature, thought and contaminations between languages, this time deals with the relationship between reality and fiction. And it does so with two focuses, one in spring and one in autumn. The spring one, from May 12th to 15th, thanks to thinkers, writers, artists, managers and personalities such as Gianluca Neri, Tiziano Scarpa, Curzio Maltese, Enrico Franco, Gillo Dorfles, Aldo Colonetti, Enrico Bertolino, Armin Linke, Francesco Ricci, Alessandro Baricco, Christian Salmon, Giorgio Gori, Vladimir Luxuria, Paolo Giordano, Ugo Dighero, Banda Osiris, Paolo Guglielmoni, Giorgio Brenna, Giovanni Perosino, Alessandro Cecchi Paone, Leonardo Manera, Olivo Barbieri, Erri De Luca, Ilvo Diamanti, Pierangelo Giovanetti, Enrico Mentana, Alberto Faustini, Gianmaria Testa who alternate in Rovereto in meetings, shows, events.

The autumn edition will instead focus on the world of cinema and its new frontiers. The theme More Real Than Real has strong implications for everyday life. Is the world we live in the one that is represented to us by the media and digital technologies? Are we not witnessing an increasingly marked detachment between reality and its representation and, in everyday life, is there not a risk of considering what we are told as real rather than what happens? And are we not perhaps the unaware protagonists of this change? With a careful eye to capturing images and nuances, Future Present aims to look at this increasingly predominant aspect of contemporaneity: at its implications as well as its potential and at the new paths it has opened up and that we have already begun to travel.

Precisely for this reason, the range of situations addressed touches the most diverse aspects of everyday life: information, the web, advertising and electoral campaigns, TV and reality, the new frontiers of video and photography, creativity, the manipulation of truth or rather facts, the redefinition of values ​​and much more.

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