SPAZIO ALFIERI
DOC AT WORK – CAMPUS
Tuesday, November 6th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:00pm - With the directors in-person
I RACCONTI DAL PALAVESUVIO
Directed by: Luca Ciriello (Italy, 2018, 14’)
The Palavesuvio stands, forsaken but not forgotten, just like yet another wasted opportunity in the history of Italian public construction. The film approaches this huge, abandoned sports centre trying to intercept the echoes of a former glory and of the hopes of which the building was an emblem in a downgraded area.
TEMPI DI GHISA
Directed by: Jacopo Benini, Elettra Irene Borchi, Francesco Di Gioia, Federico Di Leo (Italy, 2018, 26’)
The film opens on the images from a bodybuilding workout videotape, showing the very muscly bodies of Italian champions. Thirty years later, we meet one of the video’s most prominent figures, bodybuilder Dino Fumagalli, in his gym in Brianza. He tells his story, a life devoted to this discipline.
THE LITTLE ONE
Directed by: Diana Cam Van Nguyen (Czech Republic, 2017, 10’)
This story of immigration is told through the eyes of a little girl: prejudice, language, school, and the relationship with the country of origin. In a long flashback, the film describes integration in a new country which ends up by feeling like home.
MEIN HAUS
Directed by: Gabriella Denisi (Italy, 2018, 13’)
Two young German volunteers spend a year with the Waldensian community in Ponticelli, immersed in a context that is utterly different from theirs. The film-maker films the gap between the world from which the girls come and the reality they experience in Naples, also pointing out the possibility that such distant dimensions may find a common ground.
IL VICINO
Directed by: Alessandro Freschi (Italy, 2018, 12’)
Every day, “il vicino,” the neighbour, puts up a piano-bar show at full blast; it’s his gift to the people of the neighbourhood, unwilling spectators who respond by barring their windows. The neighbour is a borderline figure, disturbing and fascinating, who puts the audience (both his and of the film) in the uncomfortable position of measuring up to a life out of the box.
PASSENGERS
Directed by: Jana Boršková (Czech Republic, 2018, 78’)
The eponymous passengers are kids who grew up in a foster home: Borskova follows their stories over the years, describing with an intimate touch their attempts to build a different life for themselves as well as how they deal with the ghosts of the past. A tough, at time desperate film on lives marked by marginality and dotted with fights, loves, defeats, and desires.
Presentation of the DVDs in the series "Popoli Doc", edited by CG Entertainment
Love is All - Piergiorgio Welby Autoritratto - by F. Andreotti e L. Giunti
Comandante - by E. Maisto
La Convocazione - by E. Maisto
Tuesday, November 6th, Spazio Alfieri, 6:30pm
QUASI DOMANI
Directed by: Gianluca Loffredo (Italy, 2018, 52’)
Quasi domani describes an ancient village in Calabria where, over the past few years, immigrants have reached the same number as the original inhabitants. Five individual stories contribute to the portrayal of the slow, difficult process of integration. One of them, Sami, was born in Burkina Faso and is now an Italian citizen; another, Torab, has fully integrated in the Calabrian lifestyle but misses his motherland, Afghanistan. Those who find a job, like Mohammed, can leave the accommodation centre and rent a house on their own. Edgar, instead, an Armenian political refugee, is obliged to migrate again in order to find a job. And then Lamin, who has been waiting for the papers that would allow him to restart life for three years. The backdrop to all these life stories is Cassano Ionio, a village on the sea filled with contradictions, anger, and generosity.
Tuesday, November 6th, Spazio Alfieri, 7pm - With the director in-person
Low Tide
Directed by: Roberto Minervini (Belgium, Italy, Usa, 2012, 92’)
In a small town in Texas, a boy lives with his alcoholic mother, helping her with the house chores and at work, all the while nursing a desire to leave a world of abuse and misery behind. A work of fiction, but firmly rooted in reality, with a strong autobiographical component, it marks the beginning of a research into the stages of growing up.
Tuesday, November 6th, Spazio Alfieri, 8:45pm - With the director in-person
THE GREEN FOG
Directed by: Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin (USA, Canada, 2017, 63’)
Starting from the idea of rewriting Hitchcock’s Vertigo using old films and television series set in San Francisco, the film turns into an experimental portrait of the city, with the soundtrack of the Kronos Quartet. Disturbing and ironic at the same time, the film moves among the different layers of cinema, playing with the audience on different cinema references: from Bullitt to Vertigo, from Chuck Norris to Chris Marker.
Tuesday, November 6th, Spazio Alfieri, 10:15pm