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Smart7 is a European project that brings together 7 European film festivals. Each year, each festival selects a film from its country to be part of this curatorship. And throughout the year, from March to September (when the last partner festival takes place) 7 films from 7 different nationalities are included in the program of each of these festivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Smart7 has emerged as a project for the circulation of emerging filmmakers in the 7 countries that make up the network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first partner festival to kick off is Kino Pavasaris<\/a> in Vilnius (Lithuania), followed by IndieLisboa IFF (Portugal), FILMADRID IFF<\/a> (Spain), Transilvania IFF<\/a> (Romania), BNP Paribas New Horizons IFF<\/a> (Poland), Reykjavik IFF<\/a> (Iceland) and, ending the tour in Thessaloniki IFF<\/a> (Greece). At the end, the winning film from the last festival is awarded. The jury is made up of university students from the 7 partner countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The films selected for this edition were:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Lithuanian film in competition, Drowning Dry<\/em> by Laurynas Barei\u0161a, awarded at Locarno for acting and directing, portrays a summer weekend in which the lives of two sisters and their families take a dark and unexpected turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Portuguese film Hanami<\/em>, by newcomer Denise Fernandes, also won awards in Locarno and Gothenburg earlier this year. The film mixes magical realism with the stunning scenery of a volcanic island to portray the journey of a girl who comes of age after being abandoned by her mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n In Spain, Sandra Romero’s debut film, As Silence Passes By<\/em>, premiered in San Sebasti\u00e1n last year. The film offers a raw, documentary perspective on a family drama in which a young man returns home to face conflicts and guilt from the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adding to the program, the Romanian film Internal Zero<\/em> will be the only one to have its world premiere in March at the Vilnius IFF Kino Pavasaris. Directed by Eugen Jebeleanu, the film is based on the best-selling novel by Lavinia Brani\u0219te and follows Cristina, a thirty-something secretary struggling with life in isolated and hostile Bucharest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Travel Essentials<\/em>, from Poland, directed by Kamila Tarabura, presents a gripping mystery full of twists and turns, which explores a childhood trauma and the secrets behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Representing Iceland, Epilogues<\/em>, by Ari Alexander Ergis Magn\u00fasson, tells the story of an elderly man who, in his grief, consumes his wife’s ashes – an act that triggers a surreal journey through his memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally, Meat<\/em>, by Greek director Dimitris Nakos, investigates a deep-rooted, almost mythical neighborhood feud that turns into tragedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From May 1 to 11, IndieLisboa will bring this competition to the city of Lisbon and you will be able to see the 7 proposals from these 7 European festivals.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Smart7 is a European project that brings together 7 European film festivals. Each year, each festival selects a film from its country to be part of this curatorship. And throughout the year, from March to September (when the last partner festival takes place) 7 films from 7 different nationalities are included in the program of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":86072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"37130,62241,13670,10042,80580,10069","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indielisboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indielisboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indielisboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indielisboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indielisboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/indielisboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86080,"href":"https:\/\/indielisboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86075\/revisions\/86080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indielisboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indielisboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indielisboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indielisboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}