Tuesday 4th November

10 am

CINEMA ASTRA

The Missing Image: Future Campus Talk with Kamal Aljafari, moderated by Alessandro Stellino

To what extent can the real and figural materiality of an image become an abstraction or, potentially more, a spectrum? Amidst fragments of memories and images of a people beset with the insignia of erasure, Kamal Aljafari’s cinema presents chapters of an unfinished story, all at once personal and communal. The Palestinian director and artist has created a poetic filmography marked by restlessness, devising an elaborate mise-en-scene with different modes of resistance against the systematic attempts to destroy subjects, places, and the symbolic field that attest to a Palestinian existence. 

Free Admission

Talk in english

Tuesday 4th November

6:30 pm

THE RECOVERY PLAN

Remembering Sarah Maldoror 

Talk with Annouchka de Andrade

Talk with Annouchka de Andrade (archivist and co-founder of Les Amis de Sarah & Mario)

Hosted by: Janine Gaëlle Diedji (curator and co-founder of The Recovery Plan) and Ludovica Fales (curator of Sarah Maldoror's tribute)

"Before being a filmaker, woman and mother, Sarah was a fundamentally poetic person.She did not compartementalise her life into different sections. Everything she decided on, acted upon, was linked to multiple dimensions. She was original, generous, and always surprising. In one of our last conversations at the hospital, she spoke only of her admiration for the nurses and wondered whether we - her daughters - needed anything.

Free Admission

Talk in english

Wednesday 5th November

11:30 am

MAD - Murate Art District

FEMINIST FRAMES

“Can cinema become a space of struggle and solidarity?”

A discussion on the tactics and responsibilities of the international filmmaker community in times of occupation and genocide.

Organised by Feminist Frames in response to a call launched by Filmmakers4Palestine Greece.

Talk in english

Free Admission

Thursday 6th November

5 pm 

THE RECOVERY PLAN

FEMINIST FRAMES

Film as workplace/Film as form:

Two unresolved questions for feminist filmmakers

A roundtable on what it means to be a feminist filmmaker, and on the generational interruptions and continuities of feminist knowledge production, based on The Long Road to the Director’s Chair by Vibeke Lokkeber and No Mercy by Isa Willinger. 

The workshop is organised and conducted by the Feminist Frames international network of filmmakers.

Talk in english

Free Admission

Friday 7th November

7 pm

CINEMA LA COMPAGNIA

Roundtable: Non-fiction cinema in Italy

with Alessio Rigo De Righi, Matteo Zoppis, Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman. Moderata da: Alma Mileto.

This is the second talk dedicated to the transition from documentary to fiction that a whole generation of filmmakers is pursuing. Departing from a dialogue with Reality, they have contributed to the renewal of Italian cinema over the past two decades. On the wake of the talks with Alice Rohrwacher and Pietro Marcello last year, this time the Festival is hosting a roundtable with two pairs of co-directors who are rewriting established practices of the ‘cinema of the real’ by taking bold new approaches, all the while maintaining a deep connection to their chosen human and geographic territories.

Talk in italian

Free Admission

Saturday 8th November 

10 am

Istituto Francese 

Rebel Rebel: Marie Losier

Moderated by: Emanuele Sacchi

Avant-garde and surrealism, low-fi and ‘freakness’. Spanning a career of over two decades, Marie Losier has rejected conventional devices and biographical approaches striving to align with the artists she has filmed, showcasing non-standard and altered visions that are alien to the moral majority. 

Talk in French with italian translation

Free admission

Saturday 8th November 

11.30 am

Cinema La Compagnia 

POST DOC: IS ARTIFICIAL REALITY STILL REALITY?

Talk con Alkan Avcioglu

The director of Post Truth, a fake film about the real world and the first AI-generated documentary film in history, explores our relationship with technology and examines how we arrived at a world where truth seems to no longer matter.

Talk in english