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A ma mesure
France 2017 58'
Directed by: Marie Tavernier
In France, two thirds of the overall power production come from nuclear plants. The lives of those who work there, including minor jobs such as cleaners, are determined by constantly measuring an invisible force, the time spent inside the plant. This measures the radioactivity in the work environments, which is then recorded inside and around the bodies of the workers, and the rate of risk implied by certain procedures or simply by being inside the plant.
Watch the trailer
2018 Tuesday, November 6th, Istituto Francese, 5:00pm -
ANOTE’S ARK
Canada 2018 77'
Directed by: Matthieu Rytz
Cosa succede quando la nazione in cui vivi viene sommersa dal mare? Con la dura realtà dei cambiamenti climatici che incombono, la pacifica nazione dei Kiribati nel Pacifico, deve trovare nuove strategie per la sopravvivenza della sua gente. Attraverso bellissime immagini, Anote’s Ark, intreccia due storie toccanti. Quella di Anote Tong, carismatico presidente dell’isola, che lotta per trovare soluzioni, partecipando ai negoziati internazionali sul clima e persino prendendo in considerazione la costruzione di città sottomarine. E poi quella di Sermery, giovane madre di sei figli, che deve decidere se lasciare l’unica cultura che conosce e migrare verso una nuova vita in Nuova Zelanda.
Evento in collaborazione con Publiacqua
2018 Thursday, November 8th, La Compagnia, 3:00pm -
Aurora
Malta 2017 4'
2018 Friday, November 9th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:30pm
Directed by: Marcelle Abela
Poetic short about the beauty of the Earth and space captured from the International Space Station.
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BE’ JAM BE et cela n’aura pas de fin
BE’ JAM BE The Never Ending SongFrance, Switzerland 2017 87'
Directed by: Caroline Parietti, Cyprien Ponson
An endless song is the litany with which the Penan – a formerly nomadic population that lives in the forests of Borneo – tell their story: as inhabitants of virgin forests, they are bound to an apocalyptic future since big foreign companies began deforestation, practically erasing their habitat.
2018 Friday, November 9th, Istituto Francese, 6:30pm -
Becoming Animal
Switzerland, United Kingdom 2018 78'
Directed by: Peter Mettler, Emma Davie
The shooting was realised inside and around the Grand Teton National Park, where man meets the animal and tests his limits, driven by wonder, curiosity, and the desire to solve the mystery that connects us to our environment, poised between ecological and technological imperatives. Becoming Animal is an invitation to explore our relationship with the ‘more than human’ world and to recognize what it is: an exquisitely intricate system in which everything is alive and expressive.
2018 Friday, November 9th, La Compagnia, 3:30pm -
GENESIS 2.0
Switzerland 2018 113'
Directed by: Christian Frei, Maxim Arbugaev
On the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters are searching for the tusks of extinct mammoths. The price for white gold has never been so high. The tusk hunters find a surprisingly well-preserved mammoth carcass. Such finds are magnets for high-tech genetic scientists. They want to bring the extinct woolly mammoth back to life à la Jurassic Park. Resurrecting the mammoth is a first manifestation of the next great technological revolution. Man becomes Creator. Genesis two point zero.
2018 Saturday, November 10th, La Compagnia, 8:30pm -
Hoa
Italy, Vietnam 18'
Directed by: Marco Zuin
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.
2018 Friday, November 9th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:30pm -
La Mécanique des corps
France 2016 78'
Directed by: Matthieu Chatellier
The human body is a complex machine. Each individual replicates a universal model inflected according to a single variation. In a special centre, experts study leg and arm amputations to bridge any possible anatomical gap. Prosthetics are built and adapted to reproduce the mechanics of the missing limb, trying to imitate its unique harmony.
2018 Wednesday, November 7th, Istituto Francese, 5:00pm -
Second Life
Poland, Russia 2016 19'
Directed by: Eugeniusz Pankov
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.
2018 Friday, November 9th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:30pm -
The Land of Love
Estonia 2016 78'
Directed by: Liivo Niglas
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.
2018 Friday, November 9th, Spazio Alfieri, 5:00pm -
Tuhoutumisesta ja säilyttämisestä
On Destruction and PreservationFinland 2018 34'
Directed by: Maija Blåfield
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.
2018 Friday, November 9th, Spazio Alfieri, 3:30pm -
Walden
Switzerland 2018 106'
Directed by: Daniel Zimmermann
In the forest of the Catholic Monastery of Admont in Austria a fir tree is felled and processed into planks of wood. By train, truck, boat and finally by hand, the stack is transported to a mysterious destination right in the heart of the Brazilian rainforest. The wooden planks’ trajectory corresponds to one of the central, raw materials trade routes, however in reversed direction of transport. The film is a subtle comment on the absurdity of the economic rationale that underlies our globalised world.
2018 Thursday, November 8th, Spazio Alfieri, 6:00pm