European Union Film Festival to open with ‘La Chimera’ FilmyMeet

A poster of ‘La Chimera’.
| Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

The 29th edition of the European Union Film Festival (EUFF) has announced that La Chimera will be the opening film to be screened at the event on November 7, 2024, in New Delhi. The film was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival.

Written and directed by Alice Rohrwacher, the film follows a lovelorn Englishman as he plunders Italy’s historical treasures with a quirky gang. A blend of fantasy and comedy, La Chimera explores themes of lost love, relationships, life, and death. Yile Yara Vianello, lead actress in La Chimera (Italy) is travelling to India for the opening night.

Talking about the film, writer-director Alice Rohrwacher said,“The proximity of sacred and profane, of death and life, that characterised the years in which I was growing up has always fascinated me and given a measure to my way of seeing. This is why I decided at last to make a film that tells this layered story, this relationship between two worlds, the last part in a triptych about a local area whose attention is focused on one central question: what should it do with its past? As some grave-robbers say, down our way it’s the dead that give life.”