THE CINEMA OF REALITY, NEW ROUTE OF ITALIAN CINEMA?
After the success of the first edition of the Festival of the Cultural Association of Cinema Film recount the focus of a program of documentaries is current confirmation. In fact the so-called "real" Cinema is no longer considered a separate section from the cinematography Genre, but an integral and significant, with a recognizable role and no longer in the alternative. Increasingly in the prestigious International Festivals , which precisely Berlin, but Cannes, as well as the Venice Film Festival in Venice and the youngest of the Rome Film Festival, They are in fact taken into consideration documentaries, placing them in official competitions of genre films. And then what about the next OSCAR involving a statue dedicated to the Best Doc?
The review is intended for young students of Roman high schools who will vote for the best short.
In the spring session of DOC YEAR ZERO Edition II, the choice fell on renowned Italian directors: Antonio Bellia, Paul Civati and Salvo Cuccia, Also presenting newcomer Alessandro Bertoncini offering frescoes of our society in a composite review both styles for topics that we hope the approach emerging public "cinema of reality" to reinvigorate the film-loving culture and "capture" other, young and no, the passion for the seventh art also talking about what happens around us.
In addition to keeping up with the times is provided a taste of live cinema perfomance with live musical accompaniment.
FEATURE LENGTH FILMS
Castro (2016) The Roman occupation was Castro housing, a refuge for the excluded, a home for many but no one.
Playing Just The Notes (2018) Alessandro Bertoncini - debut film by young director Parma
Ballaro Perspective, the new documentary by Salvo Cuccia and Antonio Bellia on new murals in Palermo (2019); He wrote them Andrea Turkish: "The engine of real change is culture and art» The filmmakers have followed during the summer the five days of preparation of the works that have been performed by many artists. "It's a record but also a small film, with irony and sarcasm typical of the city '
SHORTS IN COMPETITION
In collaboration with DOC.IT and Alessandro Zoppo is a selection of seven short films by Italian directors as many of you are involved in the assignment of the Prize for the Best Short Doc 2019
FLOWER Marco Zuin (Italy / Vietnam, 2018, 20′) - it tells the daily life of Hoa, a healer belonging to ethnic minority Dao, who lives in a rural village in northern Vietnam. While forests are threatened by deforestation due to the rapid development, Hoa continues to transmit the ancient female tradition of herbal medicine practices.
MALO TIME Thomas Perfetti (Italy, 2018, 19′) – Luciano serves his sentence locked up at home, between narrow walls and days are always the same, the slow passage of time always marked by the same actions. His sentence is the void, the anguish of a life waiting for something that never comes. Luciano spends hours singing songs dramatic and full of passion, that perhaps no one understands. Parents caring for him, but even his jailers and the young, with the face and the body from delinquent, It prepares to start all over again.
RISK di Otto Reuschel (12′) Mohammed, along with dozens of young Moroccan boys aged 8 e i 18 years, He lives on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea at the port of Melilla, Spanish autonomous city on the eastern coast of North Africa, in the hope of one day going up clandestinely on a freighter headed for the European continent.
Everything is written Marco Pavan ( 23′) The documentary made in February 2018 in Mali between the ancient city of Timbuktu and the capital Bamako, testifies the extraordinary relationship of respect and protection that, Today more than ever, binds this people of the desert to a heritage of all humanity endangered fundamentalist obscurantism.
LAST CASE Electra Need (10′) – In the most southern point of Sardinia, live five men who share a fertile and hostile environment at the same time. Oscillating between the time and the death, the film takes us into a world where only hunters survive.
Where is Europe? Valentina Signorelli (15′) - the doc explores the work of NGOs in the Mediterranean through the eyes of its operators. The project was shot on board the ship "Aquarius" coordinated by the Italian-French-German "SOS MEDITERRANEAN" NGOs while the ship is currently docked at the port of Catania for supplies and crew change.
SHORT OUT OF COMPETITION
That's me on the other side of the earth Alessandro Bertoncini (2017 30’) – Maria is trying to start a new life when, one night, She discovers that her husband is divorcing from which he was kidnapped on the oil tanker with whom he served.
SHORT OF FESTIVAL WINNERS PARTNERS
from ROMAFRICA FF : Idris Kassim Yassin Saleh The story of a ten year old boy who arrives in Italy fleeing the war in Somalia. In an afternoon spent in a community pool, with the children of a family home, two worlds meet.
from Florence filmCorti Festival: Cubeman (Hungary.) Linda Dombrovszky – Best Film And 'the story of József an elderly man who lives with his habits timetabled beats per minute. Unlike many other, But, He can not accept to have reached retirement age; The hidden hand of Adam Smith (Slovenia) Foul di Maksimovic – Audience Award in an uninterrupted sequence shot somewhere in Europe a greek owes money to a Frenchman who has them in a Slovenian who has them to an Italian that needs to greek them. A German does not have anything to anyone, just she wants to get some sleep. The Englishman is looking for the exit.
from STUDENT DOC FEST: Valle Aurelia,the dose -in M. Fischetti and his crew. IISL and Seneca DOWN’ THE MASK Camilla Aloe – Institute Ripetta top finishers in the first and second editions respectively.
Program
4 March 2019 at l 'FRENCH INSTITUTE – CENTER SAINT-LOUIS (off Toniolo 22, Roma)
Morning - presentation of the exhibition and screening of the winning short films of the Festival Partners:
Idris in Kassim Yassin Saleh, Cubeman (Hungary.) Linda Dombrovszky, The hidden hand of Adam Smith (Slovenia) Foul di Maksimovic, DOWN’ THE MASK Camilla Aloe – Institute Ripetta Valle Aurelia,the dose -in M. Fischetti and his crew. IISL Seneca
following Playing Just The Notes (lungometraggio2018) Alessandro Bertoncini and Q&A with the author
1April 2019 at WEGIL (off Ascianghi 5, Roma)
Morning screenings courts
Competition: RISK di Otto Reuschel (12′), LAST CASE Electra Need (10′), Where is Europe? Valentina Signorelli (15′);
FC: That's me on the other side of the earth Alessandro Bertoncini (30’)
Following CASTRO Paul Civati and following Q&A with the author
Afternoon short films in contest:
FLOWER Marco Zuin (Italy / Vietnam, 2018, 20′), MALO TIME Thomas Perfetti (Italy, 2018, 19′) e Everything is written Marco Pavan ( 23′)
following PERSPECTIVE BALLARO ' Salvo Cuccia & Antonio BELLIA and following Q&A with the authors
EXTRA DOC: live cinema perfomance HUMANDALA SOUND SYSTEM & KINOCIRCUS
Award Best Short Doc 2019 Prize Mario Matteucci II ^ Edition
Thanks to Florence Filmcorti Festival, Student Doc Fest, RomAfrica Film Festival FRENCH INSTITUTE – CENTER SAINT-LOUIS, WEGIL,DOC.IT and Lazio Region and high schools Mamiani, Socrates and Rossellini Institute who made it possible DOC YEAR ZERO 2019.
The Artistic Director Luigi Noera
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