WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30TH - LA COMPAGNIA
Tuesday, November 29th, La Compagnia, 11 am – Free entrance
HOW I DID IT
Public Meeting with the Filmmakers
Wednesday, November 30th, La Compagnia, 3:00 pm
IZA LICA ZRCALA
A TWO WAY MIRROR
by Katarina Zrinka Matijević
(Croatia, 2016, 42’)
Lika is a field covered with grass; it’s a beehive full of honey; it is mountain, lake, air, wind, tree, flower. In winter, it is a field covered with snow. An intense poetic exploration to outline a suggestive ‘inner landscape,’ the film-maker’s, who leads us into Lika, the land that once belonged to ancestors and will belong to posterity. A magic, special landscape because it does not lie in the Realm of the Real but in that of the soul, uncontaminated, incorruptible. A film that cures the wounds of the soul, because it was made by someone whose soul was wounded.
Wednesday, November 30th, La Compagnia, 4:00 pm
DUM SPIRO SPERO
by Pero Kvesić
(Croatia, 2016, 52’)
“Dum spiro spero” is a Latin phrase meaning “While I breathe, I hope.” The motto is still used by those who want to live till the last breath. Interweaving daily life, books, and death, the film director reflects on his gradual loss of strength and on the strength you need to let life go. Pero Kvesić, an acclaimed Croat writer, debuts in film: the result ranks as high as his literature. In his diary, images and words circulate freely, interweaving ironic and lapidary authorial flashes sanctioning individual freedom, in life as in death.
Wednesday, November 30th, La Compagnia, 5:15 pm
HINTER DEM SCHNEESTURM
BEYOND THE SNOWSTORM
by Levin Peter
(Germany, 2016, 92’)
The film director’s old grandfather has buried his memories of himself as a Nazi soldier in 1943, during the German invasion of Ukraine. He doesn’t remember, or doesn’t want to, the places, people, thoughts, and actions of that long journey into the darkness of history. Levin Peter finds a photo album that evokes the past of the young Nazi. He begins to chase him for answers, trying to break the communication barrier. At last, he travels to Ukraine on the tracks of that dramatic episode of a past life with the goal of preserving its memory.
Wednesday, November 30th, La Compagnia, 7:15 pm
HOTEL SPLENDID
by Mauro Bucci
(Italy, 2016, 90’)
Hotel Splendid is at once an intimate and collective portrayal of life in a community of migrants from the African coasts who are sheltered in a facility for political asylum seekers in Cesenatico, Italy. The film records the daily experiences in and operation of a hotel used as shelter, intertwining two different story-lines: the dramatic journey undertaken by the migrants to reach Europe, with its load of violence and abuse, and the itinerary that asylum seekers must follow upon their entrance in the refuge until the evaluation procedure is over.
Wednesday, November 30th, La Compagnia, 9:30 pm
MA FILLE NORA
MY DAUGHTER NORA
by Jasna Krajinovic
(Belgium, France, 2016, 15’)
Before leaving, Nora wrote a long letter to her mother saying all a daughter can say after deciding to leave the family nest and embark on her own life. This senti- ment, a universal one, takes on an appalling connotation: Nora left her Brussels to go to Syria and join the jihad. “The mechanisms of radicalization are so com- plex, so fine-tuned, that any young person can fall victim to them.” [J. Krajinovic]
LA CHAMBRE VIDE
THE EMPTY ROOM
by Jasna Krajinovic
(Belgio, Francia, 2016, 58’
)
We are in Brussels after the terrorist attack. The now empty room is that of Sabri who, at 19 years of age, quit her parents and brothers and went to Syria to ght the jihad. Four months after her departure, her family received a message announcing her death. From that day, Saliha, Sabri’s mother, has been working with an association of families whose children have joined Islamic terrorism. They ght to have laws and strategies drawn up to prevent that other youths are infected by the “vocation to martyrdom.”