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Per saperne di più »EAT ME
Eat Me is a visual research documentary on anorexia, bulimia, and on eating disorders. The documentary is produced under the guidance and scientific advice of psychoanalysts and Infant neuropsychiatrists. The directors offer a look from the inside, helping us to get closer to this world. SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Ruben Lagattolla, Filippo Biagianti Production: Centro Heta Ancona Co-production: Villa Miralago Esecutive producers: Giuliana Capannelli, Federico Paino e Barbara Guidi Editing: Filippo Biagianti, Ruben Lagattolla Cinematography: Filippo Biagianti, Ruben Lagattolla Running time: 50’ Country: Italy Year: 2016 Contacts: http://www.centroheta.it/ “Through two years of work in progress, we followed the path of two…
Per saperne di più »L’ORO DEI GIORNI
The story of the opening cycle of a summer swimming pool, a place that lives only three months a year and where memories, habits, hopes and illusions of those who occasionally attend, who feel it as a place of sociality and a chance of performing or simply to escape from reality. Chronicles of more or less casual encounters of summer in a suburban neighborhood, the right time to try to get away from problems and thoughts. SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Léa Delbès, Federico Frefel, Greta Nani, Michele Silva Screenplay: Léa Delbès, Federico Frefel, Greta Nani, Michele Silva Production: Civica Scuola…
Per saperne di più »WAIGUOREN – IL VALORE AGGIUNTO DELL’IGNORANZA
An experimental research documentary shot during the filmmakers’ stay in Bejing reflecting on the feelings, claims and rights of people living in a foreign country through a series of testimonies of young migrants who moved to China. SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Manuela Bockstaele, Erica Piccatto Production: Video al Chilo Editing: Manuela Bockstaele, Erica Piccatto Cinematography: Manuela Bockstaele, Erica Piccatto Running time: 31’ Country: Italy Year: 2016 Contacts: https://www.videoalchilo.com/ “After an initial amazement about the difference of the place, the narrative voice begins to wonder how to integrate a society so different from our own. Realizing that admitting a certain ignorance…
Per saperne di più »SULLA STESSA BARCA
A video camera bursts into a migrant reception center in Sardinia, an island in the center of the Mediterranean sea. Toni has arrived from Libya on a boat, where people share friendships and destinies, and risk to loose life while searching for freedom. In another scene you can see people walking in a wood, and stopping in a hut, an emotional fragment of a passage through the frontiers. But everyone’s fate is to continue to float "On the same boat", waiting to be recognized by the delivery of a document that grants the dignity of self-determination and freedom to move…
Per saperne di più »RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD
Rumble explores how the music of Native Americans was part of the very fabric of American popular music from the beginning, but also how the contribution of Native American was left out of the story – until now. The film uses playful re-creations and little-known stories, alongside concert footage, archives and interviews, with celebrities such as Martin Scorsese, Quincy Jones, Iggy Pop, Slash, Steven Tyler, Jimi Hendrix. The film won an important award at Sundance Festival and the Audience award at Hot Docs Toronto in 2017. SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Catherine Bainbridge Co-directed by: Alfonso Maiorana Screenplay: Catherine Bainbridge, Alfonso Maiorana…
Per saperne di più »THE SENSE OF BEAUTY
The documentary is a valuable source to learn about the reality of CERN in Geneva and to understand the studies, research and discoveries made since 1954 (year of foundation) to our days. The physicists stopped using images to orient themselves in research: they try to approach Nature with experiments and math, but, as they do, they encounter phenomena that seem incomprehensible. Nature continues to hide. Scientists have to go beyond what they see, or rather beyond what they cannot see, and rely on intuition and imagination, as it would be done in the realization of a work of art. There…
Per saperne di più »ROSIGNANO SOLVAY – LA FABBRICA CHE SI FECE GIARDINO
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the famous Belgian inventor and industrial chemist Ernest Solvay got interested in building one of his factory in a seaside area of the Tuscan coast, near the city of Livorno. The local availability of the raw materials needed to make soda induced Solvay to build there a large factory. Based on the model of other European cities, Solvay decided to implement a large operation that was not only industrial but also urban and architectural. The result was an extraordinary company town, Rosignano Solvay, designed for the needs of the company, of the Solvay…
Per saperne di più »LA VERITA’ NON BASTA
The trial of the highest Nazi leaders in Nuremberg at the end of the Second World War was not enough to annihilate totalitarian ideologies and their mechanisms of destruction, from Latin America to Cambodia, from the former Yugoslavia to Rwanda, where in the last sixty years crimes against humanity and crimes of genocide have been committed. Against this murderous craziness, stand the international Right and Court of justices that fight against impunity and to prevent new tragedies. Among the international legal personalities interviewed in the documentary, Baltasar Garzon, famous for having "revolutionized" the international justice by a ruling against Chilean…
Per saperne di più »ESCAPE FOR FREEDOM
The documentary narrates the personal stories of Alex, Aurelia and Mihai which after many years go on a journey into their past - linked with the refugee camp of Latina (a little city near Rome) - which housed about 80 thousands refugees escaping from East Europe since 1956 (invasion of Hungary) until 1989 (the fall of the Berlin Wall and closure of the camp). After a few months in the camp, they went to Canada, Australia and the United States. The Director, whose family hosted political refugees fled from Eastern Europe, starts doing research in the archives, finding many papers…
Per saperne di più »A BETTER MAN
Attiya Khan, one of the directors, who has personally experienced domestic violence, has asked her abusive ex-boyfriend Steve to meet after 22 years and to remember their relationship. Illuminating a new paradigm for domestic-violence prevention, A better man offers a fresh look at the revelation that can happen when men take responsibility for their abuse. Selected at Hot Docs Toronto in 2017. SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Attiya Khan, Lawrence Jackman Screenplay: Attiya Khan, Lawrence Jackman Production: Intervention Productions, National Film Board of Canada Produced in association with TVO In co-production with: National Film Board of Canada, in association with TVO…
Per saperne di più »PROVE DI STATO
The film deals with the first two years in charge of Luisa Bossa, former high school president, as a Mayor elected in Ercolano, a small town in the suburbs of Naples, who has to face big and small everyday problems of ordinary people. Through her person and activity, the director shows the Italian microcosm of those years after the period of Tangentopoli, Mani pulite(the big italian business and political corruption scandal of the early nineties). SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Leonardo Di Costanzo Production: La Sept-Arte, Les Films d’ici, ZDF - Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Centre National de la cinematographie Producers: Editing:…
Per saperne di più »IN THE NAME OF ALL CANADIANS
Hot Docs has commemorated Canada's 150th anniversary of Confederation with the commissioning of In the Name of All Canadians, a compilation of six short documentaries inspired by Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Participating filmmakers have each selected a specific aspect of the Charter to explore, looking at how it resonates in the stories of their fellow Canadians related to the difficulties of ethnical minorities . SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Vivian Belik, Jennifer Bowen-Allen, Patrick Reed, Andréa Schmidt, Aisha Jamal, Ariel Nasr, Karen Chapman, Janelle, Jérémie Wookey, Annick Marion, Khoa Lê Included Documentaries: Last Resort, Notwithstanding, The Long Way Home,…
Per saperne di più »IL CLUB DEI 27
27 are the operas by the greatest Italian composer of all times. In the land of melodrama there’s an exclusive 27 Club - not the Forever 27 of rockstars who died at 27, it’s simply 27 men named after Giuseppe Verdi’s operas. They introduce themselves as Traviata, Rigoletto, Giovanna D’arco etc. From the sweet wrath of these plain-dwellers everything was evolving peacefully until an eleven-year-old child came along: he’s got their uniform, their pin - he really wants to be one of them. A new miracle of the Maestro? Maybe. Or more likely, considering these people’s sinister musical inclination, as…
Per saperne di più »A SCUOLA
It is about a class in a district of Naples. Different profiles of teachers are highlighted, those who try out strategies and behaviors, those who question and try to invent a new school model, those who think that in life if someone fails it’s because he does not want or cannot. It is a picture of the difficulties faced by the teachers in transmitting knowledge to the pupils. SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Leonardo Di Costanzo Screenplay: Leonardo Di Costanzo Production: Fandango , Les Films d’Ici, VOI Sénart e INA, in association with ARTE France Producers: Carlo Cresto-Dina, Richard Copans Editing:…
Per saperne di più »PANEL: IL DOCUMENTARIO E L’ANIMAZIONE
"Il documentario e l’animazione: oltre i confini del cinema del reale" A talk with Simone Massi and Stefano Savona about their project La strada dei Samouni organized by Visioni dal Mondo, Immagini dalla Realtà and Milano Film Festival in collaboration with Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti.
Per saperne di più »VOLTURNO
A delicate plot of simple stories and echoes through which nature is revealed: the Volturno. A tale of images across the river that relentlessly flows between Molise and Campania; among the forgotten provinces, fragile skeleton of difficult to penetrate and voiceless territories; among the few men and the many creatures that populate and still interact with the river that has always represented life itself. SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Ylenia Azzurretti Production: Arci Movie, Parallelo 41 produzioni with Bronx Film. Film sviluppato nell’Atelier di cinema del reale diretto da Leonardo Di Costanzo con il coordinamento di Antonella Di Nocera FILMAP –…
Per saperne di più »IMMONDEZZA
A documentary to tell the “Keep Clean and Run” initiative #pulisciecorri, a trip to the South of Italy between beauties and rubbish. It’s along 350km of breathtaking views from the Vesuvius to the Etna, that Roberto Cavallo, president of AICA, – International association for environmental communication, is running, along with numerous other nationally renowned sports testimonials, taking roads and paths, to carry out cleaning actions of abandoned waste along the path. His running wants to deliver a strong message to the local inhabitants and to the spectators to take care of the beauty of the nature keeping it clean and…
Per saperne di più »THE LAST ANIMALS
The Last Animals is a story about an extraordinary group of people who go to incredible lengths to save the planet’s last big animals. The documentary follows the conservationists, scientists and activists battling poachers and transnational trafficking syndicates to protect elephants and rhinos from extinction. From Africa’s frontlines to behind the scenes of Asian markets to the United States, the film takes an intense look at the global response to this slaughter and the desperate measures to genetically rescue the Northern White rhinos who are on the edge of extinction. Presented at Tribeca Festival in New York and Hot Docs…
Per saperne di più »ODESSA
"The time to release from seizure the ship and return home," a false promise that held hostage the lives of nine sailors sent by the Ukrainian company Blasco to the port of Naples to take care of the safety of the Odessa cruise ship. Meanwhile, the company enters in crisis: Odessa is being sold. Winner of the Best Documentary Award at the FilmMaker Festival and "A New Look" Best Director at the Alba International Film Festival. SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Leonardo Di Costanzo, Bruno Oliviero Screenplay: Leonardo Di Costanzo, Bruno Oliviero Production: Indigo Film, Point du Jour Producers: Francesca Cima,…
Per saperne di più »PUNISHMENT ISLAND
Akampene is a tiny Ugandan island where girls who got pregnant, breaking the taboo of premarital sex, were abandoned and died because of starvation or drowning. The documentary is guided by the voice of the island itself, that leads to the finding of Mauda, Jenerasi and Grace. Saved by poor men with no dowry for marriage, the three women will reveal the secret story of Akampene. SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Laura Cini Screenplay: Laura Cini Production: Ombre elettriche Producers: Sirio Zabberoni, Laura Cini Editing: Laura Cini Cinematography: Philine Von Düszeln e David Becheri With the support of: Mibact International sales:…
Per saperne di più »TASTE OF CEMENT
In Beirut, Syrian workers are closed up in a yard, where they work on a skyscraper. The only contact with the outside is a hole on the basement. Ripped away from their land, where the war is not over yet, they gather at night around a small TV to get news from their country hoping for a different and better life. Taste of Cement won the international Competition at Nyon Festival Visions du Réel in 2017. SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Ziad Kalthoum Screenplay: Ziad Kalthoum, Ansgar Frerich, Talal Khoury Production: BASIS BERLIN Filmproduktion, Bidayyat for Audiovisual Art Producers: Ansgar Frerich,…
Per saperne di più »CADENZA D’INGANNO
Antonio, a twelve-year-old boy, has been chosen to be the protagonist of a documentary about adolescence in a working-class district of Naples. Then, after few months, the boy decides not to participate anymore and the film ends. Eight years later, Antonio calls the director and invites Leonardo di Costanzo to film his wedding. Among the various prizes won, the ArcaCinemaGiovani Award for Best Italian Film at the 60th Venezia Festival, the Egli Prize at the International Festival "Vision du Réel" and the International Filmmaker Prize in Milan. SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Leonardo Di Costanzo Screenplay: Leonardo Di Costanzo, Maurizio Braucci…
Per saperne di più »NON HO L’ETA’
1964 is the year of the opening of the Gran San Bernardo tunnel, of the launch of the Fiat Seicento car, of the first topless on the Italian beaches, but also of the triumph of Gigliola Cinquetti at the famous Sanremo Festival with the song "Non ho l’età" (I'm too young..) It is in this framework that we tell four stories of Italian migration that took place in Switzerland during the years of the Italian economic boom, whose fil rouge are some letters written to Gigliola in which the migrants express their passion for Gigliola and for her song "Non…
Per saperne di più »SHADOWGRAM
This film tells the wishes, dreams, and everyday battles of the South Side of Chicago's afroamerican citizens. We hear their voice directly, without passing through the institutional media filter. Black America's heart has so much to tell you, but what we really know about them, except for reportage, sport, music? The current social changes in Italy and throughout Europe demonstrates that the issue of social integration and equal rights is becoming a key issue also here. Shadowgram then becomes the perfect tool for analyzing our contemporaneity. SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Augusto Contento Screenplay: Kênya Zanatta, Augusto Contento Production: Cineparallax Producer:…
Per saperne di più »PRE-CRIME
And if planned murder could be prevented? Every day, computers and cameras capture data to analyze them, in order to fight and prevent crime. We are constantly observed and monitored by new technologies: how much freedom are we prepared to give up in return for the promise of total security? PRE-CRIME travels to Chicago, London, Paris, Berlin, Munich and other places to show predictive policing techniques in action, to investigate their opportunities and dangers and to meet people who use them and those who have been victims of them. The film has been selected at Hot Docs Festival in Toronto and…
Per saperne di più »L’INTERVALLO
A boy and a girl imprisoned in a huge abandoned building in a popular district of Naples. One must watch over the other. She is a captive and he is forced by the local mobster to be her jailer. A broken love story, trapped poetry, that tells the difficulties of being teenagers in the violent periphery of a contemporary metropolis. Among the numerous nominations among the most important festivals, we remember the 2013 prizes such as David of Donatello, Silver Ribbons, Golden Globe and Golden Ciak. SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Leonardo Di Costanzo Screenplay: Maurizio Braucci, Mariangela Barbanente, Leonardo Di…
Per saperne di più »ITALIANI – ELIO FIORUCCI
The documentary tells the unique phenomenon of the Fiorucci empire, which is based on performativity, becoming accessible to everyone and standing out for its freedom of expression. Starting from the opening of the historic shop in San Babila Square in Milan in 1967, the sounds, colors, and atmosphere of Fiorucci style are revived. In his stores he created a magic atmosphere, you could listen to the Beatles music, sip a coffee, visit his second hand market, in his shops you could meet Andy Warhol and Truman Capote. The documentary relies also on the fascinating historical documentation of the Teche Rai,…
Per saperne di più »Masterclass Leonardo Di Costanzo
“Dal film documentario al cinema del reale”. More info in the section dedicated to Leonardo Di Costanzo.
Per saperne di più »RANCHER, FARMER, FISHERMAN
Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman weaves together the stories of four unlikely conservation heroes working in America's heartland. At a moment when it seems that collaboration is not just nonexistent but impossible, these working families cross political and other divides to arrive at real solutions for protecting land and sea of the USA. The film had his world premiere at Sundance Festival in 2017. In collaboration with Discovery Channel Italia SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Susan Froemke, John Hoffman Co-director: Beth Aala Screenplay: Jack Youngelson, based on the book “Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland” by Miriam Horn Production: Discovery Impact…
Per saperne di più »ACCIDENTAL ANARCHIST
Accidental Anarchist takes us on Carne’s journey, once a diplomat in the British Foreign Service, from his painful and public breach with the government and the suicide of his colleague, David Kelly, who had denounced the falsity through which the British government wanted to justify the war in Iraq, to his exploration of new ideas and new forms of social and political organization. This journey takes us to America, Europe and then to war-torn Syria where anarchist ideas of self-government and equality – above all of women – are being put into action. The documentary is a compelling guide to…
Per saperne di più »ALLA RICERCA DELLE RADICI DEL MALE
A trip to some of the symbols of the painful memory of the Twentieth Century: from the death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, to Plazow, to the peace of the Niepolomice forest, in Poland, the "Binario 21" in Milan, the train of the deported and the Fosse Ardeatine in Rome, a symbol of resistance to Nazi fascism. Stories of women and men, who have suffered the worst atrocious, absolute pain, told by children and grandchildren, also victims of suffering. In the movie, the sons and grandchildren of the Shoah, who have suffered the worst atrocity, meet for the first time in front…
Per saperne di più »IBI
Ibi was born in Benin (Africa) in 1960. She had three children and in 2000 she decided to take a big risk in order to give them a better future. She left them with her mother and accepted to transport some drug from Nigeria to Italy – but she was caught. Three years spent in jail, in Naples. Once released she remained in Italy, unable to see her children and her mother for 15 years. She started to film her life in order to make them understand what it was like. She described her life and her house in Castel…
Per saperne di più »BREXITANNIA
Leave or remain. Referendums divide and Brexit did so in a way never before in British history. Country versus city. Old versus young. Common citizens against the ruling classes. Brexitannia is a portrait of a democracy in all its ugly glory, a film without judgment which presents people negotiating their identities around a world that is changing faster than ever. The film has been selected at the Festival CPH:DOX of Copenhagen and Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2017. In collaboration with: CineAgenzia e Mondovisioni - I documentari di Internazionale SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Timothy George Kelly Screenplay: Charlotte Kuhlbrandt, Luke Neima, Timothy George…
Per saperne di più »UNO SGUARDO ALLA TERRA – part.1 (Evento speciale)
A work that starts from the view of Fiorenzo Serra's documentary “L’Ultimo pugno di terra” banned in 1965, to get to discuss on the contemporary Cinema of the real. Prestigious international documentary directors including Vincenzo Marra, Jose Luis Guerin, Claire Simon, Tomer Heymann, Sahraa Karimi, Mehrdad Oskouei, Brillante Ma Mendoza and Wang Bing tell the health of the Earth through their cinematic art. The first part of this documentary project, still work in progress, will be premiered in Italy at “Visioni dal Mondo”. SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Peter Marcias Production: Società Umanitaria Cineteca Sarda, Capetown Film srl, in collaboration with…
Per saperne di più »RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD
Rumble explores how the music of Native Americans was part of the very fabric of American popular music from the beginning, but also how the contribution of Native American was left out of the story – until now. The film uses playful re-creations and little-known stories, alongside concert footage, archives and interviews, with celebrities such as Martin Scorsese, Quincy Jones, Iggy Pop, Slash, Steven Tyler, Jimi Hendrix. The film won an important award at Sundance Festival and the Audience award at Hot Docs Toronto in 2017. SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Catherine Bainbridge Co-directed by: Alfonso Maiorana Screenplay: Catherine Bainbridge, Alfonso Maiorana…
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