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CINEMA
Italy 2018 12'
Directed by: Isabella Mari
A film crew arrives in Ponticelli. The film industry invades the famous neighbourhood of Naples in search of ‘picturesque’ locations, turning buildings, streets, and apartments into a big film set staging social exclusion. The film observes how these foreign bodies take hold of the neighbourhood and how people who live there respond.
2018 Wednesday, November 7th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:00pm -
Come se nulla fosse
Italy 2018 44'
Directed by: Clara Delva
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.
2018 Monday, November 5th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:00pm -
EMPIRE BUILDERS
Czech Republic 2018 83'
Directed by: Andran Abramjan
A disturbing film that ushers us into the core of far right movements in the Czech Republic: following the story of a film-maker who takes active part in propaganda and that of a political candidate, an anti-Islamic sociologist, Abramjan shows from within the xenophobic, nationalist, and sovereigntist galaxy that is conquering Europe.
2018 Wednesday, November 7th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:00pm -
I RACCONTI DAL PALAVESUVIO
Italy 2018 14'
Directed by: Luca Ciriello
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.
2018 Tuesday, November 6th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:00pm -
IL FIORE IN BOCCA
Italy 2018 25'
Directed by: Valeria Civardi, Andrea Settembrini
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.
2018 Monday, November 5th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:00pm -
Il vicino
Italy 2018 12'
Directed by: Alessandro Freschi
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.
2018 Tuesday, November 6th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:00pm -
Il villaggio
Italy 2018 40'
Directed by: Caterina Ferrari
A large interport in the north of Italy, an anonymous logistics hub that shelters both fleeting and regular inhabitants, i.e. the truck drivers who move goods all across Europe. They form a nomadic community that gives a new meaning to the inert spaces of the parking lot: gestures, habits, meetings, as well as cooking make up a shared space, almost a village.
2018 Wednesday, November 7th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:00pm -
MEIN HAUS
Italy 2018 13'
Directed by: Gabriella Denisi
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.
2018 Tuesday, November 6th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:00pm -
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Ogni cosa rosa
Italy 2018 17'
Directed by: Patrizia Emma Scialpi, Fabiana Foschi, Ghila Cerniani, Giuseppe Costa
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.
2018 Monday, November 5th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:00pm -
Our Street
Czech Republic 2017 3'
Directed by: Petra Feňďová
The busy life of a corner of Prague, opposite the National Theatre, seen from the point of view of a newsagents’: encounters, unpleasant events, and surprises that form the infra-ordinary texture of daily life.
2018 Wednesday, November 7th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:00pm -
PASSENGERS
Czech Republic 2018 78'
Directed by: Jana Boršková
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.
2018 Tuesday, November 6th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:00pm -
PIERROT
Italy 2018 11'
Directed by: Antonio Longobardi
A suburban cinema and its projectionist resist like an enclave of a way of experiencing film that is now on the brink of extinction: a large theatre, screenings in actual film, and the feeling of complicity with the audience. The film carries us into the world of the “Pierrot” Cinema and of its projectionist, revealing a passion for film, its history, and its material nature.
2018 Wednesday, November 7th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:00pm -
PRAGUE A FOREIGNERS PERSPECTIVE
Czech Republic 2017 4'
Directed by: Daria Kashcheeva
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.
2018 Monday, November 5th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:00pm -
Tempi di ghisa
Italy 2018 26'
Directed by: Jacopo Benini, Elettra Irene Borchi, Francesco Di Gioia, Federico Di Leo
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.
2018 Tuesday, November 6th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:00pm -
THE LITTLE ONE
Czech Republic 2017 10'
Directed by: Diana Cam Van Nguyen
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.
2018 Tuesday, November 6th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:00pm -
TORINO 24
Italy 2018 31'
Directed by: AA. VV.
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.
2018 Monday, November 5th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:00pm