by the success of this year and with the help of Cinema Circuit, from 23 al 29 June Biografilm Festival exceeds the boundaries of Bologna and also leads to Rome, Cinema Quattro Fontane, the best of documentary filmmaking, with a selection of the greatest hits of this year and previews of films that have earned the public and juries of the festival. Among the films in the program, Porno & freedom of Carmine Amoroso, Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World del maestro Werner Herzog, The Black Sheep di Antonio Martino (Guerrilla Staff Award winner | Biografilm Festival 2016), The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble del regista premio Oscar Morgan Neville (winner of the Audience Award | Biografilm Music 2016), GOODBYE DARLING, I'M OFF TO FIGHT Simone Manetti (He won the Best Film Award Yoga | Biografilm Italy 2016 and special mention of the Opera Prima Jury) and See You in Texas by Vito Palmieri (winner of the Audience Award | Biografilm Italy 2016).
In detail the awards Friday 17 June at the Biografilm Hera Theater in Bologna during the award ceremony of the same by the different juries Biografilm Festival 2016.
Best film Unipol Award | Biografilm Festival 2016: "A Family Affair" in
Tom Fassaert the following reasons: «The jury decided to award first prize to "A Family Affair", for his stinging eyes in the plots of a family apart. A look that strives to understand the roots of the problem without bias, leaving more questions than answers about a reality that seems to have no easy solutions».
Life Tales Award | Biografilm Festival 2016: "Presenting Princess Shaw" by Ido Haar for the following reasons: «Princess Shaw is a woman with a talent that is impossible not to fall in love. His voice is like his approach to life: hot, open and full of joy. We were very touched by his story and his strong will, capable of transmitting an incredible positivity to anyone she encounters'.
HERA Award "New Talents" | Biografilm Festival 2016: "Sonita" of Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami for the following reasons: "The jury awards the HERA Award for New Talent to" Sonita ", film that in addition to the overflowing emotions that was able to give us, also it brings with it a relentless testimony, giving one more chance to fight against obscurantism. We hope that this film will contribute to the emancipation of all oppressed women in the world.
While a special mention went to "Goodbye Darling, I'm off to Fight / Hello Love, I'm going to fight "by Simone Manetti for the following reasons: «Huge demonstration of the power of the individual to persevere in the fulfillment of their destiny, despite all the obstacles and adversity that life puts in front ".
Best Film Yoga Award | Biografilm Italy 2016: “Goodbye Darling, I'm off to Fight / Hello Love, I'm going to fight "by Simone Manetti for the following reasons: "For the expressive coherence and aesthetics with which he tells overcoming a challenge not only sports but also human, traveling on the border between reality and staging of an actress woman of herself '.
Life Tales Award | Biografilm Italy 2016: "Ninna nanna prisoner" by Rossella Schillaci for the following reasons: "For being able to take pictures with honesty and civic attention the plight of children forced to prison, helping to raise the urgency for a change no longer be postponed. "
Guerrilla Staff Award | Biografilm Festival 2016 a The Black Sheep di Antonio Martino
Guerrilla Staff Award Best Guest | Biografilm Festival 2016 a Luca Marinelli
Biografilm School Award | Biografilm Festival 2016 Daniel Marquet Premio Speciale.
Finally the special Biografilm the 12th edition of Festival award the festival intended to give to the work of peace and culture to SILK ROAD ENSAMBLE, withdrawn by Cristina Pato.
Biografilm PROGRAM IN ROME
THURSDAY 23 JUNE
18:30 – SHASHAMANE | CONTEMPORARY LIVES by Giulia Amati Italy |
2016 | 80'The Promised Land? For some it is in Ethiopia. You Shashamane, a 250 kilometers from Addis Ababa, donated in 1948 Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie.
20:30 – PORN AND FREEDOM ' | CONTEMPORARY LIVES by Carmine Amoroso Italy | 2016 | 77'Italy in the' 70s, a country still marked by a puritanical view of sex, a rebel group begins a battle against censorship, challenging the "common decency" with the weapon of pornography.
22:30 – LO AND BEHOLD, REVERIES OF THE CONNECTED WORLD| THE BRAND NEW WORLD Werner Herzog United States | 2016 | 108’. What's the Internet today? What role in our lives and how it will affect our future? In exploring that arises from this multifaceted question leads us Werner Herzog, drawing in a story divided into ten episodes, many faces of the all-powerful reality that is the Web.
FRIDAY 24 JUNE
17:00 – THUS SPOKE DE CRESCENZO | ITALIAN STORIES by Antonio Napoli Italy | 2016 | 78'Luciano De Crescenzo, man of many talents and pungent irony, it is a symbol of Neapolitan versatility and ingenuity. Antonio Napoli's film reconstructs his private and professional life in a polyphony of talents who have crossed his path.
18:30 – THE BLACK SHEEP | INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION by Antonio Martino Italy | 2016 | 70’. "Barber", or "free men": are the Amazighs, the Libyan minority of which Ausman is a part, born in Zuara in 1985 and raised on Gaddafi's bread and speeches, studying like everyone else the "Green Book" political manifesto.
20:30 – THE MUSIC OF STRANGERS: YO-YO MA AND THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE | BIOGRAFILM MUSIC by Morgan Neville United States | 2015 | 96’. The universal power of music unites peoples beyond geographical limits, like a modern Silk Road, e il Silk Road Ensemble, the collective of musicians founded by the legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma, was born precisely to give voice to this power.
22:30 – INDEPENDENT ROUTES – ROMA. THE SURPRISING OF A SELF-REFERENTIAL CITY | BIOGRAFILM MUSIC by Lara Rongoni, Giangiacomo De Stefano Italy | 2016 | 4 episodes of 52 'each. l Meeting of the Independent Labels, for its twentieth anniversary, with four documentaries tells the cities that have made the underground an international musical reality.
SATURDAY 25 JUNE
17:00 – UMBRELLAS | CHRISTO by Albert Maysles, Henry corra, Grahame Weinbren United States | 1994 | 81’. October 1991: 1340 blue umbrellas are opened among the immense rice fields of the Ibaraki province in Japan e 1760 yellow umbrellas hatch among the endless farms and ranches of Southern California. Those 3000 six-meter high umbrellas are for Christo an ideal bridge between the two shores of the Pacific.
18:30 – JUMPERS | NO BORDERS di Abou Bakar Sidibé, Mortiz
Siebert, Estephan Wagner Danimarca | 2016 | 80’. There is life beyond the wall. But there is a lot of it on this side too: a crowded and precarious life, but in its own way full of projects. Those of the migrants who mass in Melilla, a Spanish enclave in Morocco protected by a complex system of barriers, which represents a possible gateway to the West on African soil.
20:15 – HELLO LOVE, I'M GOING TO FIGHT | BIOGRAFILM ITALIA by Simone Manetti Italy | 2016 | 74A woman who must never ask, but he must always fight. Chantal Ughi, former model, actress and singer, she is now muay thai champion, Thai boxing, an art which she landed after a terrible period of crisis and darkness.
22:00 – MAGGIE’S PLAN – BIOGRAFILM WORLD WIDE by Rebecca Miller United States | 2015 |98’. Maggie has a plan: become a mother. For a single in New York, artificial insemination is a viable path and she is, as always, has everything under control. Or at least he thinks. But fate is unpredictable and takes the form of John and his wife Georgette, professor at Columbia University, played by Academy Award® winner Julianne Moore.
SUNDAY 26 JUNE
17:00 – CHRISTO IN PARIS | CHRISTO by Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke United States | 1990 | 58’. The Pont Neuf in Paris is an icon of the city. Until Christo arrives who decides to subtract it from its dimension as a symbol to bring it back to that of an object. Film vincitore dell’Ivens Award all’Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival.
18:30 – STRIKE A POSE | BIOGRAPHY MUSIC at Ester Gould, Reijer Zwaan Olanda | 2016 | 83’. In the late 1980s, being able to share the stage with Madonna was the dream of many artists. A dream that became reality for the seven young American dancers hired to accompany the pop star in the controversial but now legendary world tour "Blond Ambition" of the 1990.
20:15 – THE RIVER IS ALWAYS RIGHT | INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION by Silvio Soldini Italy, Switzerland | 2016 | 72’The film returns a realistic and poetic portrait of two artist-craftsmen who have chosen to do an ancient craft in a modern world and have achieved the greatest success. Learn to weave the most eternal of spells, that of words.
22:00 – ENRICO RAVA. NOTES NECESSARY | BIOGRAFILM MUSIC by Monica Affatato Italy | 2015 | 97’. This journey in the career of the great Italian trumpeter is also a dizzying escape into the history of jazz: by the greats who have marked his music, come Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, to the experimentation of the Sixties and Seventies of which Rava was the undisputed protagonist.
MONDAY 27 JUNE
17:00 – RUNNING FENCE | CHRISTO by Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin United States | 1978 | 57’. Four years of work, from 1972 al 1976, for a project long opposed in California by the local population: si chiama “Running Fence”.
18:15 – THE STUDENT | BIOGRAFILM EUROPA di Kirill Serebrennikov Russia | 2016 | 118’. This is what happens if the Holy Scriptures are read with religious fanaticism?
20:30 – THE THREAD OF WATER | BIOGRAFILM ITALIA by Rossana Cingolani Italy | 2016 | 72’The film brings to the heart of a ritual suspended between past and present that tells us something about us, of the laws that bind man and nature.
22:00 – UNCLE HOWARD | INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION by Aaron
Brookner United States, UK | 2016 |96’. There is so much beauty in the world. That's what got me in trouble. " They are among Howard Brookner's last words, director, writer and producer died in 1989 just 34 years, honored by his nephew Aaron with this doc.
TUESDAY 28 JUNE
17:00 – ISLANDS | CHRISTO by Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin Canada | 1986 | 56’. The "islands" of the title are islands of Biscayne Bay, a lagoon not far from Miami. In 1983 Christo completes those places the most spectacular performance of an artist who never ceases to surprise.
18:15 – NORMAN LEAR: JUST ANOTHER VERSION OF YOU |
BIOGRAFILM ARTE by Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady United States | 2016 | 91’. Norman Lear has entered all of our homes. He did it with the Jeffersons, con Sanford & Son, con Maude: is one of the most successful television writers and producers of all time. Today, ninety-three, he tells us in person another very special story, her.
20:00 – OLMO AND THE SEAGULL | INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION of Petra Costa, Lea Glob Denmark, Brazil, Portugal | 2015 | 85’. That is, in each of us there are two opposing souls.
22:00 – SONITA | INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION of Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami Iran, Germany, Switzerland | 2015 | 90’. The young Sonita has landed from Afghanistan on the outskirts of Tehran and dreams of becoming a successful rapper. Ma Sonita vale 9.000 dollars for his family, if they can give her in marriage to the right man. A story full of twists, winner of numerous international awards.
WEDNESDAY 29 JUNE
17:00 – CHRISTO’S VALLEY CURTAIN | CHRISTO by Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Giffard United States | 1974 | 28’. Rifle Gap, Colorado: a steep "V" between two bare mountains. Which thanks to the artists copy project is filled, in 1972, with an orange cloth of 18.600 square meters. What are the difficulties and secrets of its preparation? Christo takes us behind the scenes of the crucial phases of design and installation. Nominated for an Academy Award® in the Best Documentary Short section.
18:00 – ZERO DAYS | THE BRAND NEW WORLD by Alex Gibney United States | 2016 | 116’. Documentary from the thriller pace by Oscar®-winning director Alex Gibney tells a crucial historical passage: the first time a sovereign state created a computer virus with the explicit purpose of using it as a weapon against a hostile nation. It is the beginning of cyberwar.
20:30 – SEE YOU IN TEXAS | BIOGRAFILM ITALIA by Vito Palmieri Italy | 2016 | 80’A simple story, a universal parable: that of each couple, between ambitions, compromises and breaking points.
22:45 – THE SPACE IN BETWEEN: MARINA ABRAMOVIC AND BRAZIL | BIOGRAFILM ARTE by Marco Del Fiol Brazil | 2016 | 97’. Traveling to Brazil in search of new creative stimuli, Marina Abramović embarks on a path of spiritual healing.A film authentically "in between", suspended between art and life, tra road movie e spiritual thriller, between intimate diary and anthropological observation.
