The Trieste Film Festival: Interview with Nicoletta Romeo

Nicoletta Romeo, artistic co-director of the Trieste Film Festival (TSFF), gives a historical overview of the TSFF established in 1989 and how it has changed in the past 30 years. She also explains how this festival, focused on Central Eastern Europe, is fully integrated in the economic, artistic and ethnic ‘fabric’ of the city of Trieste. The festival features films, auteurs and modes of cinematography that are less known in Italy, and in particular productions that belong to the so-called ‘cinéma du réel’, in other words, films that are not simply documentaries, but that represent a form of borderline cinema with documentaries recounting reality in a narrative way, often character-driven.