Selected films

CARNIVAL KING OF EUROPE
Michele Trentini e Giovanni Kezich / 2009 / Italia / 22min
The kingdom of the “Carnevale”, apparently without rules and ephemeral, can be considered one of the most widespread and long-lasting in European history, and “Carnevale” itself is the one and only king of Europe.

ITELMEENI LOOD
Liivo Niglas / 2010 / Estonia, Stati Uniti / 68min
Set in Kamchatka, on the eastern extremity of Russia, in the context of the archaic sable hunt with nets, Itelmen Lood is a lively tale on the personal and social importance of the “Itelmen” language, today spoken by twenty people only.

THE THIRD VIOLINE
Reinhardt Björn / 2010 / Germania / 90min
Ivan’s portrayal, farmer from Ruthenia with great talent for music and sense of humour, and of other Ruthenian peculiar characters who live in the small town of Obcina, in Romania.

PETER IN RADIOLAND
Johanna Wagner / 2009 / Regno Unito / 9min, 55 sec.
Since he’s been ill, Peter, the director’s father, spends most of his time alone at home thinking about the past. Little has sense for him now. He is only comforted by his analogical radios, his memories and his loving wife/ wives.

ICI
Laurent Thivolle / 2009 / Francia / 18min
There is no body, no face, Some ghosts in a dismissal of the charges. It is a game between image, and the alive reality of this image, between image of life, and live.

IN ALTRO MARE
Franco La Cecla / 2010 / Italia / 55 min
The film narrates the heroic fishing attivity on the freezing and foggy banks of the Saint-George bay that the Sicilian community of fisherman from Terrasini, immigrated for five generations, carries out on the edges of the Atlantic Ocean.

ARTURO TORNA DAL BRASILE
Marco Antonio Pani / 2010 / Italia / 37min
The Arturo Usai’s extraordinary life, from Alghero, doctor, inventor and filmmaker, today 90 years old, emigrated to Rio di Janeiro after the second world war and came back to Sardinia in the seventies.

VIA ANELLI
Marco Segato / 2008 / Italia / 68min
In order to remove the decay in the Via Anelli ghetto in Padova, the city council decides shut down for good the buildings by now deteriorated, which apartments are rented mostly to immigrants, and relocate the tenants in more decorous housing. In the documentary the workers’ laborious operations to close down the site are mixed with the immigrants’ voices.

THE LAST STORYTELLER
Gustavo Vizoso / 2010 / Spagna / 56min
Storytellers have been telling stories in Morocco for more than 1000 years... This is the story of Mohamed Bariz, the last storyteller.