(Florence Luigi Noera – Photos are published courtesy of the Festival dei Popoli)
There will also be the first Italian "John & Yoko: above us only sky” sull’origine di Imagine, the most famous song in the world. Saturday the Italian premiere of the documentary "A Dog Called Money" award-winning photographer Seamus Murphy, on the cult singer PJ Harvey
On board the crew of the Sea-Watch, since the first day, in "Sea-Watch 3" di Jonas Schreijäg e Nadia Kailouli; the story of the genesis of one of the most famous albums of all time, “Imagine” di John Lennon in “John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky” di Michael Epstein; the medium who lives in Florence and talking to the afterlife in "Medium" Laura Cini and children who give voice to nature in a documentary for the little ones, “Rediscovery”.
These are the protagonists of the documentaries, Italian first, the first day of the 60th edition of the Festival dei Popoli, Saturday 2 November, The Company plans to film (from 15, information on www.festivaldeipopoli.org). The festival will last until 9 November, in various places in the city, directed by Alberto Lastrucci and chaired by Vittorio Iervese.
All 21 It will be held the official opening of the festival with the first international “Sea-Watch 3” Jonas Schreijäg and Nadia Kailouli the presence of directors and Valeria Sottani, volunteer doctor Sea Watch 3. What it happened before that they should heat the media attention, during the nearly three weeks in the middle of the Mediterranean? The documentary takes the viewer as close as possible to the events through the works of directors, who they were on board from day one. They carried out while filming the crew of the "Sea-Watch 3" saved 53 People on a boat adrift. They kept filming when the Italian coast guard came on board to deliver a communication signed by the then Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini. They filmed the daily lives under emergency conditions, with particular attention to the role played by doctors and by the crew. They observed the captain as he took the tough decisions on which depended the fate of all life on the ship. But most have heard the refugees tell of what had fled and gruesome horrors of Libya.
"It is a choral documentary - said Alberto Lastrucci, Festival director – that, Carefully film, documents the edge vicissitudes, giving space and voice to refugees, the crew and, evidently, who at that time he was in command, better to tell the captain Rackete ".
The first day of the festival of the 15, The company always at the movies, with a section dedicated to children, entitled Peoples for Kids and the projection of “Rediscovery” Both of Phie where the protagonists of the film are its children, let loose in a space on the outskirts of Copenhagen, accompanied by the voice of nature - narrator exceptional in this film - which will make them as a teacher in a path between the environment and nature.
At the 16.30 space with the Italian Competition “Medium” presented in the room by the director, Laura Cini. The film starring Tarika, who has dedicated his life to learn to manage his innate ability to communicate with the afterlife. In his world enters Sirio, a man whose life has been torn apart by the tragic death of his wife, and Nadia, a vibrant woman who hides a dark past family. Thanks to Tarika's ability to cross the threshold between this life and afterlife, Sirius and Nadia exceed their limits, obtaining a second chance to address some unresolved problems with their deceased, which becomes the vehicle to become aware of their deeper nature of their journey as human beings.
The festival continues to 18.15 with a meeting dedicated to virtual reality in the presence of Bowland, Iranian-Florentine group that has participated in X-Factor in 2019.
All 18.45 the projection of “John & Yoko: above us only sky” Michael Epstein, within the section "Hit me with music". The film, which will air on the Sky Arts channel soon be revealed to the public the deep creative collaboration between John Lennon and Yoko Ono in the production of the album Imagine, recalling that era but also by highlighting what that music and that message still speak to the public today.
Saturday 3 Instead the Italian premiere of the documentary "A Dog Called Money" award-winning photographer Seamus Murphy, on the cult singer PJ Harvey, rock stars to women, It will be one of the "Special Events" in the 60th.
Written and directed by Irish photographer and film-maker Seamus Murphy, the film documents the creative process behind the last PJ Harvey hard, The Hope Six Demolition Project. Born from the long journey undertaken by the British singer with the Irish photographer through Afghanistan, Kosovo e Washington DC, already he becomes a book of poems and pictures The Hollow of the Hand (2015), album, with all its background, It was fixed on film. In addition to the pictures of the trip, the film shows, indeed, even the process of recording of The Hope Six Demolition Project at Somerset House in London. In an artistic experiment unprecedented, locked in a room with glass walls, under the public gaze, PJ and his musicians, for five weeks in January 2015, They have created a kind of sound sculpture.
The screening will follow the live performance: 19’40”/Enrico “the mason” Gabrielli (FIAT) + Sebastiano De Gennaro (electronics and percussion) play music written. Gabrielli, multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger, He participated in recordings and tours of the last album by PJ Harvey, The Hope Six Demolition Project al Somerset House.
"On the occasion of the 60th edition - he explained Alberto Lastrucci, Director of the Festival dei Popoli – We propose an image that evokes the long and the continuous activity of our festival, from the outset, It aims to be a 'witness of his time', but also a sighting of the new trends in approaching (film, cultural, social, policies, etc.). The picture presents the emblematic figure of a witness that, through decades characterized by technological tools evolving, It retains its role as observer, chronicler, story-teller. A symbol of all the authors and all the authors of “tales of the world” making up the program ".
For the 60th anniversary of the festival a special section, call “Diamonds are Forever” and curated by Daniele Dottorini, which traces the last sixty years of documentary films to rediscover a constellation of precious stones, jewelry to be excavated. The result of the talent of brilliant writers and international authors, i 20 securities in this section, presented in past editions, from 1959 till today, are authentic “moments of great cinema”, here gathered to compose a collier priceless. Da “Titicut Follies” di Frederick Wiseman a “Dont Look Back” di D.A. Pennebaker both the 1967; da "The Children Play in Russia" di Godard has “First Love” Krzysztof Kieslowski del di 1974; gives “South” Chantal Akerman in a “Harat” Sepideh Farsi: unique opportunity to see, or review, works that anticipated the cinema of the future and continue to do so today.