While waiting for the winners, We are at the weekend X, music and legend of rock's most famous Japanese band of all time with special guest Yoshiki but also the Beatles of the golden age of Apple Corps and an unprecedented trip to Afghanistan

The music and the myth of Japan's biggest rock band of all time, X Japan, is 58 / mo Festival of Peoples with the Italian premiere of "We Are X" (UK / Japan / USA, 2017, 95’), Stephen Kijak documentary applauded at the Sundance and special event of the fifth day. At present the film in an exceptional guest room: the charismatic frontman Yoshiki, drummer, pianist, composer and producer under whose guidance enigmatic X Japan has sold over 30 million singles and albums, counting among fans of Sir George Martin caliber names, i KISS, Stan Lee and even the Emperor of Japan. Acclaimed by international critics "We are X" it is the incredible story of a band that has created a unique cultural phenomenon, since the 80s until the memorable performance at Madison Square Garden in New York in 2014.

To signal a film in Italian competition, a cross-section of a room full of contradictions and complexities Peninsula, but also a unique lightness and sometimes comical. Way to Happiness Martina Thomas (Italy, 2017, 66’), the story of Elisa from her neighborhood on the outskirts of Bari ghetto decided to move to Bonn, in Germany, where his sister and other local residents have created a small colony, but soon discover that the new life is not as if the imagined.

For the international competition. "Garmonia" (Russia, 2017, 60’), delicate coexistence between chronicle the elderly owner of a small apartment and the large and boisterous family of grandson, firmata da Lidia Sheinin.

Continue with "Campaign 2" (US / Japan, 2013, 149’), the review of Kazuhiro Soda teacher who focuses on the election campaign of a candidate lonely and penniless after the Fukushima catastrophe, in Japan. While Locarno "Favela olímpica" Samuel Chalard (Switzerland, 2017,93’), documenting the resistance of the inhabitants of the favela of Vila Autódromo, to Rio de Janeiro, the face of political and military forces that would drive them from their homes to "clean up the area" for the Olympic Games.

While the filmmaker Ben Lewis presented "The Beatles, hippies and hell angels” (UK, 2017, 90’), the tale of a unique experiment in "hippie capitalism". And the 1967 and the fab four are the most popular band in the world, but the taxes they have to pay them are leaving the Green. The solution will invest in a new company, which soon will become one of the most colorful and quirky businesses never existed: including fashion store and hair salon, between technological start-up record label, with the intent to spread throughout the world the values ​​of a new movement, one of the hippies.

Noteworthy are two works in international competition, "Anatomy of the miracle" by Alessandra Celesia (France / Italy, 2017, 83’), a section on the devotion of three women different from each other: Giisy, restless mind and body forced on a wheelchair, Fabiana, transsexual who coordinates a community of believers and Sue Song, Korean pianist arrived in Naples, all three voted to the Virgin of the Arch, that embodies violence and love, blasphemy and mercy, pain and hope, ancient and modern. Mntre from the Middle East "seven veils" (Afghanistan / France, 2017, 80’), an intimate journey into the heart of Afghanistan accompanied by Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi, beyond the clichés and images that each day we are given by the news. Infine a disturbing doc "The pact Adriana" (Chile, 2017, 96’), investigation of Lissette Orozco director on his own aunt, accused of being a torturer of political prisoners during the Pinochet regime.

But here are the winning films Monday last day of the 58th Festival dei Popoli

A “Also Known as Jihadi” (France, 2017), the French director Eric documentary Baudelaire that reconstructs the genesis of a jihadist in the suburbs of Europe since the acts of a process, Best Feature Film Award of the International Competition for the following reasons: intelligent and conceptually rich, the film has a formal structure that cleverly blurs the boundaries of discourse using images, sounds and text documents. Opera extraordinary that fits into a tradition not only film, but also of activism, This film demonstrates the ambiguity of the injury with complex instruments, by appealing to the imagination, to knowledge (and its gaps), and the absurdity that often characterizes the social management of -provocando Justice as a much-needed meditation on fear and xenophobia.

The prize for the Miglior Mediometraggio è andato a “On the Edge of Life” di Yaser Kassab (Syria, 2017). At the same time lyrical and personal - the motivation of the jury - the film tells urgent experience and today all too common, using a unique cinematic language that creates an important space for contemplation. History survival in a contemporary world of uncertainty, the film combines aspects and photographs showing the exile and the struggle but also their representation. Generous, open, thin and full of a confident poetry, the film shows how art, cinema and human relationships are an integral part of existence even in the most tragic situations.

The Award for Best Short Film went to "DueloAlejandro Alonso " Star (Cuba, 2017) the following reasons: By creating an entire cosmology as a precise and elegant form, the film tells a familiar story against the backdrop of an ancient ritual, joining the daily life a sense of grandeur and mystery. The work gives off a powerful atmosphere, built on an appropriate visual economy.

At the same doc also he went the prize “The gaze. The challenge of dialogue between cultures and religions "Sangalli awarded by the Institute for the History and Culture of Florence Religious, the following reasons: "A scar on his face, indication of a still open wound in the soul; the sense of emptiness for the loss or due to the absence of a fundamental figure in the psycho-physical growth of each; continuous vigil as a symptom of an unresolved internal dissension. What can the religion to cast out demons? And then, which religion? That syncretic joining Christian ejaculations, animistici archaic rites and exorcisms? This film gives us, within minutes, a contracted representation but 'happy' an intense relationship with the self, with the maternal figure, with a desolate nature but sharer.

The Targa "Gian Paolo Paoli", Prize for the best film ethno-anthropological, He went to "Maman Colonelle"Di Dieudo Hamadi (Democratic Republic of the Congo / France, 2017) the following reasons: a film whose strength, whose commitment and whose empathy reposition anthropological research from the inside. The brave, by the director, to observe an extraordinary person in the context of his community and his attempt to heal wounds and fight the stigmatization of women victims of violence trace an urgent portrait - a portrait that comes from culture, the experience and the desire for social justice at the local level.

Special Jury Mention for "Good Luck" by Ben Russell (France / Germany, 2017). Special mention goes to a film that creates intense and visceral cinematic experience, both through formal and artistic choices that with a curiosity about the job issue, precariousness and community, through a clever combination. Looking closely at the bodies at work in the era of global capitalism, and at the same time deepening the strength of community ties and the possibilities of collective hope in different parts of the world, the film puts the viewer on a journey that is both time sensitive, open, majestic and touching.

The prize “The gaze. The challenge of dialogue between cultures and religions "Sangalli awarded by the Institute for the History and Culture of Florence Religious, in addition to "Duelo" also he gave a special mention to "Boli Bana" Simon Gillard Coulibaly (Belgium, 2017) - For the graphically intense and dense look that is cast on the traditions of an African nomadic population, i Fulani: oppressori (other tribes, when they formed an empire, between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), and then crushed by French-British colonization, They had an important role in the spread of Islam in Africa. The film pursues birth and childhood of some of them: children who quickly make you adults in guarding herds, the evening, around a campfire, evoke stories and pray; those same adults-children, in a few years, They could arrive on our shores, and it is therefore important to know rites, traditions, culture.

The Cinemaitaliano.info Prize - Entertainment CG of the Italian Competition, that It consists in the film publishing and distributing the DVD series "Peoples Doc" published by CG Entertainment, It was awarded to "The latest pop star "by Claudio Casazza, Zoja Carlo and Stefano Prevosti. The jury, composed by the editors of Cinemaitaliano.info, the motivation choice: Starting from an observation pure and detached, the camera creeps between the teeming crowd up to mingle completely, itself becoming a spectator of an expected epochal event. Among storytelling of an apparent rock concert and Doc anthropological, “L’ultima popstar” shows morbid worship of a people against its leader, icon which all yearn to take home a souvenir, whether it be a blessing or a t-shirt with a reproduction of smiling face of the Pope.

A "The alluring promises" Campara Chiara and Lorenzo Faggi (Italy, 2017) went the prize "The Drinks" of the Italian Competition, which offers the possibility of including the winning film in the programming of cinema The Fellowship of Florence for a week. For the originality of the subject and the way the curious encounter between the past is told, the present and the future of a small Italian reality. We believe that this story will arouse interest and curiosity in the audience of all ages. The recognition is awarded by a jury composed of representatives of Toscana Film Commission "Those of the Society" and promoted by "Those of the Society" by Fondazione Sistema Toscana.

The MyMovies.it Prize - The cinema from the public this year goes to "The summons" by Enrico Maisto (Italy, 2017) for the International Competition section, and even to "Open to the public" by Silvia Bellotti for the section Italian Competition.