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Festival venues



Cinema Auditorium Stensen


Cinema Gambrinus


Istituto Francese di Firenze


CANGO – Cantieri Goldonetta


Aula Magna di Santa Verdiana

ACCOMODATION


Ufficio ospitalitÀ e accrediti

Giulia Greppi e Chiara Stinghi

welcome@festivaldeipopoli.191.it

Press Area



Ufficio stampa nazionale

Arianna Monteverdi per Studio Sottocorno
Via Nino Bixio, 38
20129 Milano
Tel.: +39 02 29419283 / +39 338 6182078


sottocorno@gmail.com


Ufficio stampa locale

Antonio Pirozzi e Jacopo Storni
Tel: +39 339 5238132 / +39 335 7163225


stampa.festivaldeipopoli@email.it

Festival dei Popoli

Istituto Italiano per il Film di Documentazione Sociale
ONLUS

Borgo Pinti, 82r
50121 Firenze – Italia
tel. +39 055 244778
fax +39 055 241364

festivaldeipopoli@festivaldeipopoli.191.it

www.festivaldeipopoli.org


Direttore
Luciano Barisone

Comitato Direttivo
Giorgio Bonsanti, Presidente
Antonio Breschi, Presidente Onorario
Tullio Seppilli, Vice Presidente
Mario Simondi, Vice Presidente
Sandro Bernardi
Maria Bonsanti
Augusto Cacopardo
Alberto Lastrucci

Presidente Collegio Sindacale
Fabio Bargellini

Ufficio Programmazione
Claudia Maci

Archivio del Festival dei Popoli
Maria Bonsanti
Alberto Lastrucci


Amministrazione
Massimo Martini

Restauro e conversione pellicole archivio del Festival dei popoli
Movie & Sound, Firenze

Database archivio del Festival dei popoli
Open Lab, Firenze

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FESTIVAL DEI POPOLI 2008

posted by alberto on 2008–03–06


Luciano Barisone is the new director of the Festival dei Popoli. Born in Genoa in 1949, he is a journalist, film critic (Filmcritica, Cineforum, Duellanti, La Rivista del Cinematografo), proponent of Cineclub, and founder of the magazine Panoramiche, of which he is also director. Since 1997 he has collaborated with various international film festivals. He has edited critical studies of Catherine Breillat, Robert Guèdiguian, Clint Eastwood, Naomi Kawase, and Nicolas Philibert. In 2002 he created the Alba International Film Festival, where he was acting director until 2007. He has been an international jury member at Cannes (Camèra d’Or, 1997), Marseille (2000), Valladolid (2003), Buenos Aires (2004), Lisbon (2004), Belfort (2005), and Pamplona (2008). As new director, he will be taking over for Mario Simondi, who was the General Secretary since 1986 and has been a collaborator since the festival’s outset.

’’The Festival has always been a guiding beacon for me, so I welcome this new job with enthusiasm. In the seventies, when I was starting out in film criticism, I often had the chance to follow it closely. For me, it meant participating in one of the special forms of knowing the world and thinking about the human condition. I am pleased to take up this kind of challenge because in the film world the Festival dei Popoli is considered one of the great humanitarian patrimonies and we should pay tribute to its 48 year legacy by expanding and developing its activities. The Festival was founded on the content and language of film. Now that the documentary is held in high esteem, we should be talking about the cinematographic forms that have helped advance it. And we must not limit ourselves to thinking only about pre-existing films, but we should also be planning films for the future’’.


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NO, TU NO.

posted by alberto on 2007–05–18


NO, TU NO.
Serate di cinema documentario sulla discriminazione

22 maggio – 26 giugno 2007


Festival dei Popoli, Arci ed Anolf, grazie alla collaborazione con il Comune di Firenze – Assessorato accoglienza, integrazione e terzo settore e alla disponibilità del Circolo ARCI “25 aprile”, presentano “No, tu no” – una rassegna di 11 documentari in 6 serate nata dagli obiettivi del progetto leader (co–finanziato nell’ambito dell’iniziativa comunitaria equal II fase) che, attraverso una sperimentazione a carattere nazionale, ha lo scopo di sviluppare una strategia di lotta alle discriminazioni, con particolare attenzione ai casi in cui l’origine nazionale si intreccia con altri fattori quali, ad esempio, il genere o la religione.

In Toscana, in particolare a Firenze, strutture sindacali ed associazioni del privato sociale hanno costituito una Rete di Iniziativa Territoriale Antidiscriminazione (RITA Toscana) al fine di informare gli operatori del settore sulle prassi in materia di monitoraggio delle discriminazioni ed azioni utili al loro contrasto, aumentare la consapevolezza in materia dei diritti dei cittadini stranieri, sensibilizzare il mondo civile e politico sul tema dell’antidiscriminazione.

Circolo Arci “25 aprile”
Via Bronzino 117 – Firenze
Tel. 055 700460
Ingresso gratuito

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credits: Ken Burns, Florentine Films

The Festival dei Popoli in New York

posted by alberto on 2008–04–30


From May 29th to the 31st, the Festival dei Popoli will set down in New York's splendid Snug Harbor, Staten Island, currently a vital center of activity in one of New York City's five boroughs.

The Festival dei Popoli's first annual New York event was developed by two associations with similar cultural platforms: the venerable "Snug Harbor Cultural Center", located in the Staten Island Botanical Garden, and the FitzGerald Foundation of Florence, a new association founded on the longstanding friendship between the city of Florence and Anglo-Saxon culture. It is also made possible by the support of the Regione Toscana and of Mediateca Regionale Toscana Film Commission.

The three day event is part of an ongoing movement by the Festival dei Popoli to circulate its rich collection of archival footage abroad. Since 1959, the collection has grown into an unparalleled treasury of documentary films and the history of documentary filmmaking.

"Cinema is a matter of exchanging looks: those of the people in the frame, those of the filmmaker framing them, and those of the spectator seeing through them. On the occasion of our first event on American soil, it seemed interesting to us, then, to focus in on the dynamic of exchanging viewpoints: on one end, the viewpoints of filmmakers who, over the years, have observed with curiosity and passion the peculiarities of Tuscan life; on another, those of filmmakers who have let their gaze fall on the complex and cosmopolitan life of New York; and yet another viewpoint is that of the people of Staten Island who can here discover the presence of a distant place and the memory of a place close by. The films were selected not only based on the material at hand in the archive, but also on the merits of creativity with respect to mere observation. Therefore, the films to be screened on Staten Island are auteur documentaries, the result of a reality as it is filtered through personal aesthetic. They consider environments, architectures, unusual people and quiet, everyday people, piecing together a mosaic that, seen through well-defined viewpoints, will bring to the public a more precise idea of different territories. Some of the documentaries show New York as it has been depicted in the festival's prizewinning films from the early years to today. Another group of films takes a look at places and events in Tuscany as they have been perceived and interpreted by filmmakers of international acclaim." (Luciano Barisone)



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Workshop con Sergei Dvortsevoy

posted by alberto on 2007–11–21


Giovedì 22 novembre 2007




Sergei Dvortsevoy terrà un workshop sul documentario dal titolo:


"To write a script for an art documentary film or not to write?".

Il seminario, rivolto a filmmaker e a studiosi di cinema, è in lingua inglese con traduzione consecutiva.


Nato nel 1962 in Kazakhstan, Sergei Dvortsevoy ha lavorato come ingegnere aeronautico prima di studiare cinema a Mosca. I suoi film hanno immediatamente ottenuto consenso, vincendo premi e riconoscimenti in tutto il mondo. Molti i premi conseguiti al Festival dei Popoli: Scastjie ha ricevuto la menzione speciale della Giuria al 37° Festival dei Popoli. Trassa ha vinto la Targa “Gian Paolo Paoli” come Miglior Film Etno–antropologico al 40° Festival dei Popoli. V Temnote ha ottenuto il premio come Miglior Documentario al 45° Festival dei Popoli. Intimista ed elegante, il cinema di Dvortsevoy è uno dei migliori esempi di documentario di osservazione. Per usare le parole stesse del regista: “osservate insieme con me, con calma, e tutto potrà accadere”.

Born in 1962 in Kazakhstan, Sergei Dvortsevoy was an aeronautic engineer before he studied film in Moscow. His films drew immediate acclaim, winning awards and honors worldwide. Many of them came from the Festival dei Popoli: Scastijie received the Jury’s honorable mention at the 37th Festival dei Popoli. Trassa won the Targa “Gian Paolo Paoli” for Best Ethno–Anthropological film at the 40th Festival dei Popoli. V Temnote won the award for Best Documentary at the 45th Festival dei Popoli. Intimate and elegant, the films of Dvortsevoy are some of the best examples observational filmmaking. In the words of the director himself: “observe together with me quietly and everything will happen.”

Filmografia
1996 Scastjie (Paradise) 1998 Hlebni den (Bread Day) 1999 Trassa (Highway) 2004 V Temnote (In the Dark)

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48° Festival dei Popoli – Il Programma

posted by ALBERTO on 2007–11–09



Clicca qui per scaricare il programma completo in PDF.

Clicca qui per scaricare il Catalogo del 48° Festival dei Popoli in PDF.

Click here to download the Catalogue of the 48th Festival dei Popoli in PDF.

Clicca qui per scaricare il comunicato stampa.

Clicca qui per scaricare il modulo per la richiesta di accredito.
Click here to download the accreditation form
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FESTIVAL DEI POPOLI – I VINCITORI

posted by alberto on 2007–11–23


48° FESTIVAL DEI POPOLI
VERDETTO GIURIA DEL CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE.

La Giuria Internazionale del 48° Festival dei Popoli – composta da Michel Trégan (FID Marseille, Francia), Sergei Dvortsevoy (regista, Russia) e Alessandro Rossetto (regista, Italia) – dopo aver visionato tutti i 12 film in concorso, decide di assegnare i seguenti premi:

Premio Jean Rouch (5.000,00 €), istituito grazie alla collaborazione con il “CICT– UNESCO Consiglio internazionale del Cinema e della televisione”, per il Miglior Documentario a:
HARAT di Sepideh Farsi (Francia/Iran, 2007)
con la seguente motivazione:
"Racconto di un viaggio a ricostruzione della storia di tre generazioni sviluppata in maniera completa e partecipata, dove il calore della vita familiare si fonde con la durezza della vita di una frontiera di guerra".

Targa "Giampaolo Paoli" per il Miglior Film etno–antropologico a:
WORLDSTAR di Nataša Von Kopp (Germania/Repubblica Ceca, 2007)
"Per esprimere il proprio apprezzamento ad un film il cui linguaggio cinematografico ha saputo rendere il ritratto di un artista fuori dal comune".

Menzione Speciale
a:
DON’T ASK WHO I AM di Zheng Yi (Cina, 2007)
"Per l’intenzione di affrontare temi universali attraverso una figura molto particolare".

VERDETTO GIURIA DEGLI STUDENTI DELL’ISTITUTO LORENZO DE’ MEDICI

La giuria degli studenti dell’Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici – composta da Leah Twichell, Jorge Carreon, Laurel Demarco, Emily Ceru, Katherine Spencer – dopo aver visionato tutti i 12 film in concorso decide di assegnare il Premio Lorenzo de’ Medici (1.000,00€) a:

UKU UKAI di Audrius Stonys (Lituania, 2006)
con la seguente motivazione:
“Uku Ukai envelopes the viewer in an harmonious and rythmic connection of image and sound. This experience is simultaneously intensly personal and wholly universal, synchronizing the dichotomy of emotions in life and body.

VERDETTO GIURIA DEL CONCORSO ITALIANO

La Giuria italiana del 48° Festival dei Popoli – composta da Gabriele D’Autilia, Eric J. Lyman, Chiara Ugolini – dopo aver visionato tutti i 9 film in concorso, decide di assegnare il Premio per il Miglior Documentario italiano (2.500,00 €) a:

CASA MIA di Debora Scaperrotta (Italia, 2007)
con la seguente motivazione:
"Perché attraverso le immagini del reale riesce efficacemente a portare lo spettatore in un luogo lontano per spazio e contesto, evitando una facile retorica ed un finale consolatorio".

Menzione Speciale a:

I PROMESSI SPOSI di Massimo D’Anolfi e Martina Parenti (Italia, 2007)
con la seguente motivazione:
"Un film divertente che parte da un’idea originale sposando un tono leggero ad un tema sociale. Una narrazione semplice ma mai banale che sfrutta la figura del prete protagonista alternandola ad una sorta di “candid camera” per raccontare la società multietnica italiana in continuo cambiamento".


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ATLAS OF THE FUTURE

posted by alberto on 2008–02–06



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Visions of the scenarios to come



What are the key thoughts of reflection about tomorrow? Atlas of the Future offers us likely visual trajectories that project our day into forthcoming scenarios and patterns.

The exhibit is an annotation of moving images which address key themes in social development and in our world studied through video clips and documentaries, the latter hailing from the archives of Festival dei Popoli.

From Mexico to India, from the United States to Nigeria, from Israel to China, from Italy to the Congo to Russia, the works tell stories and utopias, imagine worlds and offer speculations for life in the future.


Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina


Festival dei Popoli


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49° FESTIVAl dei popoli
14–21 novembre 2008

INTRODUCTION


Documentary film, the cinematographic representation of the real, is an art in flux. And the Festival dei Popoli would like to think hard about such a state of flux.

While not abandoning its anthropological roots, documentary film should open itself up to the world by exploring new cinematographic forms and not limit itself to strict rules. While adhering to recognizable tenets, it should investigate a plurality of cinematographic expression, expanding our idea of the state of things and adding new directions for documentaries. By widening our own scope, we hope to achieve a closer relationship with the current times, which, within a discussion of mis-en-scene, mixes fact and fiction, even while risking undermining its audience’s greatest securities.

While documentaries remain firmly planted in the material and spiritual life of men and women, the festival intends to explore: craft, language as it represents different subjects, and the artistic nuance of the person filming as much as the human and social nuance of the person being filmed. In this sense, the festival will straddle continuity and innovation, focusing its program on worldliness, innovation in craft and the production of a new cinema.

MISSION


The festival demonstrates an enthusiastic dialectical spirit, taking a fresh educational approach that goes beyond the International Competitions and rewards of the Main Programme, and eschews post-production debates for a week of bringing together filmmakers and producers to participate in roundtable discussions, workshops and general gatherings

The festival acts as a studio, a place in which we not only watch films and discuss world events, but also plan films to come. The project’s goal is to form a ’’Foundation’’ that will select high-quality creative projects to partially finance, offering residences, tutorials and meetings with producers for select filmmakers.

The Festival dei Popoli embarks on a promotional campaign locally (City, Province, Region), nationally (in other cities), and internationally (by collaborating with other festivals). That means collaborating with other local cultural groups, developing profitable relationships and fostering organized projects in the film world.

The festival works with other cities to host national documentary screenings, photography exhibits, music concerts and dining events. In exchange, Florence is often invited to other cities to screen Italian documentaries while also having the opportunity to promote the city, its culture, arts, and gastronomy.

In collaboration with other festivals, the Festival is working toward creating a digital streaming source for its documentaries; a collection of DVDs is being created to be distributed via internet or through a network of special libraries.

GENERAL OUTLINE


The project functions like a VCR player: the present (Play), past (Rewind), and the future (Fast-forward). Just so, the films in the International Competition and Main Programme mark present-day concerns; those in the Retrospective, Master, Young Filmmakers and Thematic Section deal with the past; the ’’Foundation’’ projects look to the future. They all hinge on the conference about the status of documentary film, the true genius loci of the Festival dei Popoli. The interpretation of documentary film as a tool for recording and bearing witness, as well as a form of personal expression, is the conference’s corollary. The festival is designed to be an organic and harmonious entity stretching out in all directions like a living organism.

PROGRAMME


The 49th annual Festival is currently being organized. For the moment, these are our categories. Adjustments and additions will be communicated as they arise, including film selections, jury members and honored guests.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION:
14 features and 10-12 shorts, World Premiere films (alternatively European or Italian Premiere).

MAIN PROGRAMME:
10 contemporary films, Italian Premiere, that cover the range of documentary forms, from installation work to fiction.

RETROSPECTIVE:
20 documentary films from a select country to be organized in collaboration with another festival in that country (a joint project in which the Festival dei Popoli will screen recent Italian productions in said country). A book with interviews and essays will be published in conjunction with the retrospective.

MASTER IN FOCUS:
10 films by a filmmaker of international repute. A critical study with interviews and essays will be published, and a lecture and/or a roundtable discussion will be held in conjunction with the homage.

YOUNG FILMMAKERS IN FOCUS:
3 filmmakers with five films each, with respective workshops; an essay in the festival catalogue plus an interview with each filmmaker and film sheets will be published.

THEMATIC SECTION:
5 documentary films on a single subject; comparative forms of representation; one or more guests will be present.

NANOOK’S HERITAGE: An international roundtable discussion about the status of contemporary documentaries with theorists, filmmakers, producers, and directors of international festivals.

JURIES AND PRIZES


OFFICIAL JURY PRIZE: A 5 person panel will award two prizes for Best Film for a cash prize of 10,000 Euros, and Best Director for a cash prize of 5,000 Euros.

LORENZO DE’ MEDICI/UNIVERSITA’ DI FIRENZE PRIZE: A cash prize of 2,500 Euros will be judged by a panel of 10 students coordinated by a turor.

AUDIENCE AWARD: Audiences at the Festival dei Popoli will vote on films from the International Competition and Main Programme.

PASSES AND TICKETS


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Partners e sponsor



Enti finanziatori:

www.beniculturali.itwww.regione.toscana.itwww.comune.fi.it

Provincia di FirenzeMediateca Regionale Toscana film commission







Università degli Studi di Firenze


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The Festival dei Popoli in New York

posted by alberto on 2008–04–30


From May 29th to the 31st, the Festival dei Popoli will set down in New York's splendid Snug Harbor, Staten Island, currently a vital center of activity in one of New York City's five boroughs.

The Festival dei Popoli's first annual New York event was developed by two associations with similar cultural platforms: the venerable "Snug Harbor Cultural Center", located in the Staten Island Botanical Garden, and the FitzGerald Foundation of Florence, a new association founded on the longstanding friendship between the city of Florence and Anglo-Saxon culture. It is also made possible by the support of the Regione Toscana and of Mediateca Regionale Toscana Film Commission.

The three day event is part of an ongoing movement by the Festival dei Popoli to circulate its rich collection of archival footage abroad. Since 1959, the collection has grown into an unparalleled treasury of documentary films and the history of documentary filmmaking.

"Cinema is a matter of exchanging looks: those of the people in the frame, those of the filmmaker framing them, and those of the spectator seeing through them. On the occasion of our first event on American soil, it seemed interesting to us, then, to focus in on the dynamic of exchanging viewpoints: on one end, the viewpoints of filmmakers who, over the years, have observed with curiosity and passion the peculiarities of Tuscan life; on another, those of filmmakers who have let their gaze fall on the complex and cosmopolitan life of New York; and yet another viewpoint is that of the people of Staten Island who can here discover the presence of a distant place and the memory of a place close by. The films were selected not only based on the material at hand in the archive, but also on the merits of creativity with respect to mere observation. Therefore, the films to be screened on Staten Island are auteur documentaries, the result of a reality as it is filtered through personal aesthetic. They consider environments, architectures, unusual people and quiet, everyday people, piecing together a mosaic that, seen through well-defined viewpoints, will bring to the public a more precise idea of different territories. Some of the documentaries show New York as it has been depicted in the festival's prizewinning films from the early years to today. Another group of films takes a look at places and events in Tuscany as they have been perceived and interpreted by filmmakers of international acclaim." (Luciano Barisone)



Cinema Auditorium Stensen Cinema Auditorium Stensen

Viale don Minzoni 25/a – Firenze
capienza posti: 242 (2 riservati ai portatori di handicap)
tel. 055 576551
fax 055 582029
www.stensen.org

Come raggiungerlo / Directions

in AUTO – Uscita Autostradale FIRENZE SUD.
Direzione Firenze–Centro, si prosegue lungo i viali cittadini fino a piazza della LIBERTA', sulla destra si entra in Viale Don Minzoni (tempo: 20' circa)

in TRENO – Stazione Firenze Campo di Marte. Autobus ATAF linea 12: scendere all'ultima fermata di via Masaccio (tempo: 5' circa)

in AUTOBUS ATAF – Viale don Minzoni: linee 1, 7 – Via Masaccio: linea 12

Cinema Auditorium StensenCinema Auditorium Stensen
Cinema Gambrinus

Via Brunelleschi – Firenze
(zona Piazza della Repubblica)
Capienza posti: 676
Telefono: 333 6276943

Come raggiungerlo / Directions

In BUS – Linea 22
in AUTO – Garage Europa
in TRENO – Stazione Firenze Santa Maria Novella (15 minuti a piedi)

Cinema Gambrinus
Istituto Francese di Firenze Istituto Francese di Firenze

Palazzo Lenzi
Piazza Ognissanti 2 – 50123 Firenze
Capienza sala: 99 posti
tel. 055 2718801
fax 055 217296
www.istitutofrancese.it
www.france–firenze.it

Come raggiungerlo / Directions

Palazzo Lenzi si trova nel centro–ovest della cittá, sulla riva destra del fiume Arno, quartiere Ognissanti

in AUTO – Garage Europa

in TRENO – Stazione Firenze Santa Maria Novella (10 minuti a piedi)

Istituto Francese di Firenze
CANGO – Cantieri Goldonetta CANGO – Cantieri Goldonetta

Via S. Maria, 23–25 – 50125 Firenze
capienza posti: 99
tel. 055 2280525
fax 055 222377
www.cango.fi.it

Come raggiungerlo / Directions

Oltrarno: a 100 mt da piazza Santo Spirito

In treno: Stazione Firenze Santa Maria Novella

In Autobus ATAF: fermata via dei Serragli, Cinema Goldoni – Linee 11, 36, 37

CANGO – Cantieri GoldonettaCANGO – Cantieri Goldonetta
Aula Magna di Santa Verdiana Aula Magna di Santa Verdiana
FacoltÁ di Architettura

Piazza Ghiberti, 27 – Firenze
tel. 055 2631031
Aula Magna (aula 11)
Aula 19
www.arch.unifi.it

Come raggiungerlo / Directions

Il plesso didattico di S. Verdiana é situato nel quartiere di S. Ambrogio

in AUTO – Parcheggi in prossimitá di viale Giovine Italia e Piazza Ghiberti

in AUTOBUS ATAF – Linee 8, 13, 14, 31, 32, 33, 80, A, C


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The Festival dei Popoli in New York

FESTIVAL DEI POPOLI 2008

Atlas of the future

48° Festival dei Popoli–I vincitori

Workshop con Sergei Dvortsevoy

48° Festival dei Popoli–Il Programma

NO, TU NO.

scarica il regolamento 2008


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A Brief History of the Festival dei Popoli



Founded in 1959 by a group of humanities scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, ethnologists and experts in mass-media, the not for profit Festival dei Popoli has been working for almost fifty years to promote and study social documentary cinema. Chiefly, the association organizes one of the most important international documentary festivals in Italy. At the same time, the Festival dei Popoli is busy restoring and conserving its archives (including about 10,000 titles, from video to film reels) as well as organizing courses and workshops for aspiring directors and documentary filmmakers.

In past ceremonies, the Festival has screened the best documentary productions on an international level, and it has brought to the public's attention the most noteworthy cineastes in the genre (Jean Rouch, Ken Loach, Vittorio de Seta, Fred Wiseman, Richard Leacock, Gianfranco Mingozzi, Lindsay Anderson, Abbas Kiarostami, Nagisa Oshima, Ian Dunlop, Aleksandr Sokurov, Artavazd Pelechian, Jørgen Leth and many others). Conferences and roundtable discussions, considered an integral part of the ceremony, have allowed the Florentine public to meet leading figures of the social sciences: from anthropologists to sociologists, city-planners to linguists (Roland Barthes, Umberto Eco, Francesco Alberoni, Georges Balandier, Edgar Morin, M. Sahlins, Mary Douglas, Elemire Zolla, Giuseppe De Rita, Carlo Tullio Altan, Jean-Louis Comolli, Marc Augé). With an early interest – which has never been abandoned – in ethnographic documentaries, today the Festival's events touch upon the most diverse aspects of the contemporary world: topical social and political issues, history, theatre, music, contemporary art, history of cinema (worth remembering are the retrospectives about authors who tread the line between documentary and fiction, like Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, John Cassavetes, Ken Loach, Nagisa Oshima, Lindsay Anderson, Aleksandr Sokurov, Jørgen Leth).

Organized by themes, the Festival dei Popoli has confronted issues of architecture and the development of urban landscape, immigration, new cults, the relationship between western medical practices and traditional healing, water resources, and the role of family in the third millennium. Besides in-depth looks at certain subject matter, problems in cinematographic representation have been explored in a series of discussions about themes such as televised journalism, new European realism and the evolution of technique in European cinema. Among the most successful of these series have been: "How the West was Won and Honor Lost"; "Blacks in Movies and Films by Blacks"; "Birth of a Continent: Society and Cinema in Black Africa, 1960 -1981"; "Film and Reality"; "Images of Italian Colonialism"; "Madame l´eau: Water Stories" and "The Family of the Third Millenium".

The Festival dei Popoli is a member of EDN (European Documentary Network), RED (Réseau d'échange et d'expérimentation pour la diffusion du cinéma documentaire) and the Assembly of "Amis du Cinéma du Réel".


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Festival dei Popoli 2007 - Cinema Gambrinus
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