El eco Mexico, Germany | 2023 | 102 min In El Eco, a rural village in Mexico, life goes by slowly: the shepherd dogs bark at night, the women catch the sheep that risk drowning in the midst of the marsh, a little girl takes care of her elderly grandmother, and another one pretends to […]
Tag: 64 Festival dei Popoli
TWICE COLONIZED
Denmark, Canada, Greenland | 2023 | 92 min The first draft of the memoirs written by Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter begins with the question, “Is it possible to change the world and also heal one’s wounds?” A vivid, revelatory portrait of a well-known advocate of natives’ rights, famous for her tenacity and her fiery speeches […]
MIGHTY AFRIN: IN THE TIME OF FLOODS
Greece, France, Germany | 2023 | 92 min How can a barely adolescent girl, with her dreams and projects, grow up in a land devastated by the consequences of global warming while illegal traditions that will make her a child bride are still in force? Afrin, hailing from the lower coast of Bangladesh, along the […]
THE LAST RELIC
VIIMANE RELIIKVIA Estonia, Norway | 2023 | 104 min Ekaterinburg is a city located east of the Urals. Here the last czar, Nicholas II, and his family, the Romanovs, met their death in 1918, executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries. Here, in present-day Russia, the nostalgia for imperial glory seems to have rekindled. The Last Relic, filmed […]
BOTTLEMEN
FLAŠAROŠI Serbia, Slovenia | 2023 | 82 min Seven thousand years ago, Vinča, a Belgrade suburb constantly expanding along the Danube, used to be the cradle of European Neolithic culture. Today, one of the unhealthiest landfills in Europe is thriving just a few kilometres away. The place is enveloped in smoke when a group of […]
DAUGHTERS OF THE SUN
The Netherlands | 2023 | 75 min In 2014, Daesh attacked the Sinjar province in southern Kurdistan, an area populated by Yazidi. During the occupation, many young women were kidnapped, forced to convert to Islam, and used as sex slaves. Today many of them have regained their freedom and come back to their homes. They […]
CARLO URBANI. HO FATTO DEI MIEI SOGNI LA MIA VITA
Italy | 2023 | 50 min 20 years after his death, a documentary on the doctor who first identified SARS and stopped its spread. With the contribution of Medici Senza Frontiere.
GRANDMOTHER’S FOOTSTEPS
France | 2023 | 65 min A painter who experienced the last remnants of the Grand Tour era, Clotilde Brewster Peploe (1915–1997) chose the Mediterranean as her home and inspiration for her art. In the account made by her granddaughter Lola through archival footage and shots filmed on purpose, we follow the tracks of a […]
WICKED GAMES: RIMINI SPARTA
BÖSE SPIELE: RIMINI SPARTA Austria, Germany, France | 2023 | 205 min The tormented fortunes of two brothers, children of an elderly parent now suffering from dementia, alternate in Ulrich Seidl’s lengthy film. In Rimini, the once successful crooner Richie Bravo now only performs for an audience of elderly tourists, forced from time to time […]
KOKOMO CITY
USA | 2023 | 73 min A unique, rare and enlightening work that manages to give a face and a voice to an often-marginalised community, Kokomo City explores the intimate stories of four black transsexuals with a raw gaze, but not without vivacity and irony. Daniella Carter, Koko Da Doll, Liyah Mitchell, and Dominique Silver, […]
