SPAZIO ALFIERI
AURORA
Directed by: Marcelle Abela (Malta, 2017, 4’)
Poetic short about the beauty of the Earth and space captured from the International Space Station.
Friday, November 9th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:30pm
SECOND LIFE
Directed by: Eugeniusz Pankov (Poland, Russia, 2016, 19’)
Like in a SF novel, in the depths of the rundown Russian province, a small company that practices empirical alchemies on corpses and human brains is entrusted with a woman’s almost centenary mother and the woman herself. They hibernate body parts, promising to restore them thanks to new techniques of reanimation and therapy in a not too distant future. Imagining a life beyond death, the woman dreams a resurrection to a different life, and a happy one.
Friday, November 9th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:30pm
ON DESTRUCTION AND PRESERVATION
Tuhoutumisesta ja säilyttämisestä
Directed by: Maija Blåfield (Finland, 2018, 34’)
Five stories of decomposition and resistance – from the poetic reconstruction of mushrooms’ sexuality to a night tour to the Svalbard Islands, to an exceptionally long-lived eel – weave the impalpable, but concrete threads of a reflection on the forces that rule life on our planet.
Friday, November 9th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:30pm
HOA
Directed by: Marco Zuin (Italy, Vietnam, 2018, 18’)
In Vietnam, globalization and financial exploitation of natural resources are transforming both landscape and culture. Hoa, a young woman, learned the medicinal virtues of plants as a child, following Vietnamese traditional medicine. Along with her family, she is committed to preserve, practise, and pass down an ancient knowledge based on a direct connection between the human being and natural environment.
Friday, November 9th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:30pm – With the director in-person
THE LAND OF LOVE
Directed by: Liivo Niglas (Estonia, 2016, 78’)
The Land of Love is a documentary film about reindeer, oil, politics and poetry. It tells a story about Yuri Vella, a Forest Nenets reindeer herder and poet who lives in the taiga of Western Siberia, and who tries to prove that one person can stand against the great power that is destroying the environment of the native people.
Friday, November 9th, Spazio Alfieri, 5:00pm
TALKING MONEY
Directed by: Sebastian Winkels (Germany, 2018, 89’)
In collaboration with Fondazione Finanza Etica
A look behind the scenes of modern banking: from Bolivia to Pakistan, Benin to Switzerland, we take a look at 15 confidential meetings between bank customers and bank consultants. A personal business relationship evolves: questions are asked, opinions expressed, doubts discussed and decisions reached. The consultation table is a stage for confessions and masquerades, a place where values are negotiated and currencies exchanged. Isn’t it strange to discuss highly personal financial matters with a person you barely know?
Friday, November 9th, Spazio Alfieri, 6:30pm– With Alessandro Messina (Banca Etica)
CORPO A CORPO
Directed by: Francesco Corona (Italy, 2018, 62’)
On September 24, 2005, after the Verona-Brescia football match, police and visiting fans clashed at the local train station. Several people were injured, and a young man remained on the ground, almost lifeless. Paolo Scaroni fell into a coma and woke up two months later, severely disabled as a consequence of his beating by the riot squad. He was a member of the ultraradical group “Brescia 1911”. The film reconstructs eleven years of his life, following his difficult journey in trying to obtain justice and find a new identity as man.
Friday, November 9th, Spazio Alfieri, 8:30pm – With the director in-person
THE SILENCE OF OTHERS
Directed by: Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar (Usa, Spain, 2018, 95’)
Produced, among others, by Pedro Almodovar, the film reveals the epic struggle of the victims of the Spanish dictatorship under General Franco, who are still seeking justice. Filmed for over six years, we follows the survivors in the organization of the Argentine Cause against the crimes of Francoism. Forty years after the ‘Pact of Forgetting,’ this film gets back to one of the darkest pages of Spanish history like a compelling legal thriller, taking a necessary step if one is to understand contemporary Spain.
Friday, November 9th, Spazio Alfieri, 10:00pm