Romania, Canada | 2023 | 105 min An estimated 150 million people worldwide allegedly have sexual characteristics that do not fit into the typical notions of a male or female body, thus identifying them as intersex individuals. Who I Am Not departs from here, focuses its gaze onto South Africa, leaves the generic datum behind […]
Tag: 64 Festival dei Popoli
EASTERN FRONT
SHIDNIY FRONT Latvia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, USA | 2023 | 98 min August, 2022. The invasion of Ukraine has been going on for six months. Vitaly Mansky and Yevhen Titarenko report on the war from East and West. On the eastern frontline, there are clashes house to house; in the western rear, soldiers spend their […]
LIV ULLMANN – A ROAD LESS TRAVELLED
Norway, United Kingdom | 2023 | 102 min An iconic face of post-World War II art-house cinema, Liv Ullmann talks candidly and passionately in the documentary directed by Dheeraj Akolkar, discussing her life from her childhood in Norway to her decisive meeting with Bergman, through her directing career, her commitment to humanitarian causes, and the […]
ANTARCTICA CALLING
VOYAGE AU PÔLE SUD France | 2023 | 83 min In 1991, Luc Jacquet left for his first mission in Antarctica, but then he has kept on coming back to this land and has become one of most acclaimed documentary filmmakers, especially after the extraordinarily successful March of the Penguins (2005 Academy Award). Thirty years […]
BREAK THE GAME
USA | 2023 | 72 min Narcissa Wright is a speedrunner, i.e., a gamer specialized in finishing a video game in the shortest delay, who became famous all over the world wide web for her records. She lost her huge fandom on the social platform Twich after coming out as transgender. To reconquer her followers, […]
POSSO ENTRARE? AN ODE TO NAPLES
Italy | 2023 | 103 min Naples: a city of culture and creativity, but also of chaos and criminal dereliction. With the gaze of a foreigner who loves the Mediterranean city, after going there regularly for two years, Trudie Styler challenged herself making a documentary that would depict the contrasts of beauty and sorrow, of […]
BENE! VITA DI CARMELO, LA MACCHINA ATTORIALE
Italy | 2023 | 54 min On a bare and scarcely lit stage, Filippo Timi performs passages from “Sono apparso alla Madonna,” the autobiographical text written by Carmelo Bene and published in 1983. Iconoclastic, brilliant, scandalous, provoking, ambiguous. Considered by many the greatest Italian actor of the 20th century, Bene was an elusive and unclassifiable […]
GALILEO (R)EVOLUTION
Italy | 2023 | 70 min Who was the scientist Galileo Galilei, and who are his heirs today? In a short-circuit of past and present, Galileo’s life and thought are reflected in the enterprises of contemporary young researchers and scholars. On the 400th anniversary of the publication of The Assayer, Galileo’s book in which he combined […]
SQUARING THE CIRCLE (THE STORY OF HIPGNOSIS)
UK | 2022 | 97 min Music album covers as a form of art. There was a time when to wait for the new record of Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin was not only about the content but also the package, with the curiosity of discovering the next invention of the geniuses of the design […]
PIANOFORTE
Poland| 2023 | 89 min From 1927, Warsaw holds the International Chopin Piano Competition every five years. Young talents execute increasingly difficult Chopin scores to conquer the coveted award offered by one of the most prestigious piano contests of the world. Jakub Piątek’s camera focuses on some of the contenders and observes them closely, coping […]
