SUNDAY, NOV. 27TH - LA COMPAGNIA
Sunday, November 27th, La Compagnia, 11:00 am
MATINÉE FIRENZE 1943
SHALOM ITALIA
by Tamar Tal Anati
(Israel, Germany, 2016, 70’
)
Three brothers (now 73, 82, and 84 years of age) of the Anati family from Florence are the heroes of this story. In 1943, in order to escape racial persecution, the family hid in a wood outside of the city and lived for several months in a makeshift cave thanks to the complicity of many local people. After the war, the Anati family moved to Israel permanently. 70 years later, the three men came back to walk in the woods around Florence with one goal: nding the cave that was their home and saved their lives.
Sunday, November 27th, La Compagnia, 3:00 pm
NAWET NIE WIESZ, JAK BARDZO CIĘ KOCHAM
YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU
by Paweł Łoziński
(Poland, 2016, 75’)
What does the word “love” really mean? During our lives, we often create bonds and ties with our close ones, which with time seem to us impossible to untangle. The film tells the story of the tragedy of two women, mother and daughter, bound together by a difficult, complicate feelings. For the protagonists, the crucial event is a meeting with a third person, a stranger who becomes a close one, an experienced therapist. His basic tools are words and empathy.
Sunday, November 27th, La Compagnia, 4.45 pm
VITA NOVA
by Danilo Monte, Laura D’Amore
(Italy, 2016, 80’)
The film is about the procedure of assisted fertilization experienced by Laura and Danilo. He is a film director; she is her producer and yoga teacher. At the beginning of this difficult experience they decide to film themselves, giving us an intimate, profound account of this particular moment of their life. A film about the journey of a couple who are looking for a new life.
Sunday, November 27th, La Compagnia, 6:30pm
LES CORPS INTERDITS
BANNED BODIES
by Jérémie Reichenbach
(Francia, 2016, 12’)
In the form of a poem, of visual song, the voices of some migrants describe their experience in Calais, being confined in the largest camp of Europe, called “jun- gle” because there the individuals, stripped of all human dignity, live in a state of utter degradation, their bodies forbidden. In the freeze-frame of the suspended time of Calais, the migrant body vanishes. Only their voice, flesh that sings, tells the pain unceasingly.
Sunday, November 27th, La Compagnia, 6:30 pm
MADAME SAÏDI
MRS SAÏDI
by Paul Costes, Bijan Anquetil
(France, 2016, 60’)
“You know, I am a comedian. If you have a role, don’t hesitate to call me. I live just around the corner. I am Mrs. Saïdi.” In 2007, a woman from Tehran aged over 70, comedian and mother of a ‘martyr,’ appeared in front of two French film-makers who accepted her invitation. Seven years later, they went to Iran to make a film about her. To everyone’s surprise, Mrs. Saïdi has become a well-known comic actress…
Sunday, November 27th, La Compagnia, 8:30 pm
SWAGGER
by Olivier Babinet
(France, 2016, 84’)
In-between documentary and fiction, Swagger lets us into the surprising minds of eleven adolescents of various origins who live in one of the most disadvantaged Parisian banlieues, where ‘the French’ never set foot. A series of portraits that spotlight their hopes, fears, and daily life. In spite of their difficulties, these kids nourish dreams and ambitions that cannot be stifled. Olivier Babinet managed to bring these out and stage them in the form of a musical, constructing a film that defies all stereotypes about the European suburbs currently at the centre of the darkest news and giving us hope for the younger generations.
Sunday, November 27th, La Compagnia, 10:15 pm
EAT THAT QUESTION: FRANK ZAPPA IN HIS OWN WORDS
by Thorsten Schütte
(France, Germany, 2016, 90’)
A multi-faceted immersion with plenty of less known aspects into the musical universe and beyond of Frank Zappa, one of the most revolutionary contemporary composers. A summa of the ‘Zappa-thinking’ not only about musical theories and his daring experimentation, but also about politics, the rules of the show business, and the active role an artist can and must play within the media community.