SPAZIO ALFIERI
DOC AT WORK – CAMPUS
Presentation of films made in 2018 by students of the Turin Scuola Holden, the Milan Civica scuola di cinema Luchino Visconti, and the Naples Centro FilmaP – Atelier di Cinema del Reale, and Zelig – School for Documentary, Television and New Media of Bolzen, FAMU Film and TV School of the Prague Academy of Performing Arts (CZ).
Monday, November 5th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:00pm - With the directors in-person
OGNI COSA ROSA
Directed by: Patrizia Emma Scialpi, Fabiana Foschi, Ghila Cerniani, Giuseppe Costa (Italy, 2018, 17’)
The pace of this film that explores the town of Taranto, with its serious environmental problems, is set by its long summer afternoons. A group of young people and a researcher provide the point of view. However, the film manages to discuss the problems of the city but also to highlight its deep vitality and resilience.
IL FIORE IN BOCCA
Directed by: Valeria Civardi, Andrea Settembrini (Italy, 2018, 25’)
By way of manifold stories and points of view, the two film-makers compose a complex, varied picture of the Salento region. In spite of its extreme beauty, the place is affected by serious problems related to pollution and spatial planning.
PRAGUE A FOREIGNERS PERSPECTIVE
Directed by: Daria Kashcheeva (Czech Republic, 2018, 4’)
Prague is told through the voices of those who live in the city but come from elsewhere, putting together a mosaic of points of view that depict its complexity and contradictions as well as the experiences in common with any other migration: from the language barrier to the advantages offered by the country, passing through xenophobic events but also the charm of its culture and its night clubs.
TORINO 24
Directed by: AA. VV. (Italy, 2018, 31’)
A city symphony on Turin, from dawn till night: daily lives and apparently trivial events blend with pictures of different trades and remembrances of the past. This collective film puts together a multi-faceted, kaleidoscopic portrayal of the city through the editing of fragments of a metropolis, composing a canvas about the complexity of city life.
COME SE NULLA FOSSE
Directed by: Clara Delva (Italy, 2018, 44’)
In Bolzano, the area of the bus station has become the object of desire of a big urban regeneration project that plans on improving an allegedly run-down area by building a large mall. The film describes this area and its conflicts through the point of view of the undesirable if the property speculation went through.
FREE ENTRANCE - Book presentation
LA PASSIONE DEL REALE IL DOCUMENTARIO O LA CREAZIONE DEL MONDO
by Daniele Dottorini (ed. Mimesis)
The book is a crossing of the concept of "Reality" through the practices of contemporary documentary cinema, starting from the assumption that the new millennium takes up forcefully, transforming it, that "passion of reality" that has characterized the twentieth century's political and aesthetic history. It is in this scenario that the cinema of the real stands as an open laboratory that problematically plays a central concept. The first part of the volume consists of an analysis of the passion of the real in contemporary documentary cinema, while the two subsequent parts re-cross the concept through two central terms to understand the specificity of the cinema of reality, Time and Space.
Monday, November 5th, Spazio Alfieri, 6:00pm
THE PASSAGE
Directed by: Roberto Minervini (Belgium, Italy, Usa, 2011, 89’)
Texas. Ana has just found out she’s about to die. Jack has recently been released from jail, he needs money. The two decide to leave for Rocksprings, where Ana plans on meeting a healer. Harold is bound for an art exhibition in Marfa and joins them. During the journey, the mixed trio will share joys and sorrows, but will also manage to encourage each other.
Monday, November 5th, Spazio Alfieri, 7:00pm - With the director in-person
PENTCHO
Directed by: Stefano Cattini (Italy, UK, 2018, 80’)
On May 18th, 1940, the old tug boat Pentcho left the port of Bratislava on the Danube. It carried 520 Jews - Czechs, Slovaks, and Poles - who wanted to go down the river to Sulina, on the Black Sea. There, they were supposed to board a bigger ship to proceed to Palestine. The tug boat had to cross several borders and was repeatedly halted and impounded. Every time, miraculously, the passengers managed to continue their journey. When, at last, the Pentcho arrived to Sulina, five months had gone by and the ship that was supposed to save them wasn’t there. The captain made a brave decision and continued to travel until the boat engine, not adequate for the sea, broke down. The boat was stranded on a deserted island. After struggling for ten days, the shipwrecked Jews were saved by an Italian military ship, Camogli. However, during the war Italy sided with Germany. Were the victims saved ordid only another odyssey begin?
Monday, November 5th, Spazio Alfieri, 9:15pm - With the director in-person