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AU BORD DU MONDE
On the Edge of the WorldFrance 2013 98'
2016 Monday, November 28th Istituto Francese, 7:00 pm – Free entrance
Directed by: Claus Drexel
Paris, at night. This is where Jeni, Wenceslas, Christine, Pascal and the others live. Homeless, they haunt the streets and bridges, and corridors of the metro; on the edge of a world where society no longer offers protection. They face us and they talk.
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DAL RITORNO
OMAGGIO ALLA GIURIA INTERNAZIONALE DEL 57° FESTIVAL DEI POPOLIItaly, France, Belgium 2015 92'
2016 Friday, December 2nd, La Compagnia, 3:00 pm
Directed by: Giovanni Cioni
“Dear Silvano, when we met, one December night, you asked me to come along. You wanted to go back there, to the place where you have survived. I am always down there, you told me. Alive, alone, disbelieving existence. We began the jour- ney. You have had to survive, again.” [G. Cioni] The story of Silvano Lippi told by the protagonist himself, a soldier in Greece in 1943, taken prisoner by the Ger- mans, deported to Mauthausen, and then assigned to the gas chambers. The film is about him, from the return. An endless return, forever unanswered.
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HOMO SAPIENS
OMAGGIO ALLA GIURIA INTERNAZIONALE DEL 57° FESTIVAL DEI POPOLIAustria, Germany 2016 94'
2016 Friday, December 2nd, La Compagnia, 5:00pm – In collaboration with La fine del mondo - Centro Pecci Prato
Directed by: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
What will be left of the genious of modern man after he disappears? Like in a flash forward, Geyrhalter shows us desert, abandoned, almost apocalyptic scenarios of non-places, symbol at once of man’s transience and impermanence and of his carelessness, disrespect for nature. Homo sapiens is a hymn to man’s ingenuity, a warning for his conscience, and an invitation to reflect on his role in the world.
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LA CHAMBRE VIDE
The Empty RoomBelgium, France 2016 58'
2016 Wednesday, November 30th, La Compagnia, 9:30 pm
Directed by: Jasna Krajinovic
We are in Brussels after the terrorist attack. The now empty room is that of Sabri who, at 19 years of age, quit her parents and brothers and went to Syria to ght the jihad. Four months after her departure, her family received a message announcing her death. From that day, Saliha, Sabri’s mother, has been working with an association of families whose children have joined Islamic terrorism. They ght to have laws and strategies drawn up to prevent that other youths are infected by the “vocation to martyrdom.”
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LE MYSTERE ETTORE MAJORANA, UN PHYSICIEN ABSOLU
France 2016 52'
2016 Sunday, November 27th, Istituto Francese, 5:00pm
Directed by: Camille Guichard
The life and genius of Ettore Majorana have retained their mystique, 80 years after his mysterious disappearance in March 1938 when he was only 31 years old. Physics had just discovered the atom, WWII was about to explode, and a very young Majorana had already pushed forward the boundaries of quantum physics and cosmology with his theory of neutrinos. The lm unfolds like a detective novel and a scienti c thriller, investigating Majorana’s mysterious disappearance as well as the history of physics in a deeply troubled period such as the Thirties. -
MA FILLE NORA
My Daughter NoraBelgium, France 2016 15'
2016 Wednesday, November 30th, La Compagnia, 9:30 pm
Directed by: Jasna Krajinovic
Before leaving, Nora wrote a long letter to her mother saying all a daughter can say after deciding to leave the family nest and embark on her own life. This senti- ment, a universal one, takes on an appalling connotation: Nora left her Brussels to go to Syria and join the jihad. “The mechanisms of radicalization are so com- plex, so fine-tuned, that any young person can fall victim to them.” [J. Krajinovic] -
SHALOM ITALIA
Israel, Germany 2016 70'
2016 Sunday, November 27th, La Compagnia, 11:00 am
Directed by: Tamar Tal Anati
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: finding the cave that was their home and saved their lives.
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TERZO&MONDO
Italy 2001 15'
2016 Monday, November 28th, Istituto Francese, 7:00 pm – Free entrance
Directed by: Daniele Pignatelli
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UNE JEUNE FILLE DE 90 ANS
A Young Girl in her NinetiesFrance 2016 85'
2016 Monday, November 28th, La Compagnia, 9:00pm
Directed by: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Yann Coridian
In collaboration with France Odeon
In the geriatric ward of the Ivry hospital Charles Foix, not far from Paris, Thierry Thieû Niang, an internationally acclaimed choreographer, conducts a dance work-shop with patients affected by Alzheimer. By way of dance, lives come in contact and regretful memories resurface, brimming with bitterness, joy, and solitude. The lm’s heroine, Blanche, a young woman of 90 years of age, falls in love with the choreographer and her disease turns into lovesickness.
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WEINER
USA 2016 100'
2016 Saturday, November 26th, Spazio Alfieri, 9:00 pm
Directed by: Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg
A close-up on Anthony Weiner, North-American politician whose name is now indissolubly tied to the sex-related scandals that saw him as a major player and brought about a crisis with his wife Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s closest advisor. The film follows Weiner’s campaign for New York City mayor in 2013, when his unexpected recovery crumbles as new sexting episodes come to the surface.
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WHILE THEY WATCHED
UK, South Corea, Ireland 2016 90'
2016 Monday, November 28th, Spazio Alfieri, 7:00 pm - In collaboration with The Tide Experiment
Directed by: Jake J. Smith
A documentary on North Korea set in a dystopic future where the regime has collapsed. By way of this device, the film brings on-going state crimes to our attention and questions the moral stance of regional and global powers for their inaction toward the dictatorship ruling North Korea.
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