Documentaries

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A Diary of a Journey

by Piotr Stasik

Documentario | Poland | 2013 | HD | 54 min.

Tadeusz Rolke, an aged master of Polish photography, has more than just a typical teacher-student relationship with 15-year-old Michał. Together, they travel across Poland to take portrait photographs of the residents of small towns and villages while the dark room placed in their camper enables them to develop pictures...

Datesaturday 11 july

Location Circolo Culturale I'M - ABANO TERME (PD), via A. Brustolon, 3

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Boulevard's End

by Nora Fingscheidt

Documentary | Germany | 2014 | HD | 15 min.

At the end of Washington Boulevard, where Los Angeles’ streets merge into the ocean, the Venice Pier begins. The rough concrete pier braves Pacific storms and provides stillness and stablity to its visitors. Here, we meet two immigrants who take us on their journey through history.

Datesaturday 11 july

Location Circolo Culturale I'M - ABANO TERME (PD), via A. Brustolon, 3

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Continental Drift

by Nayeem Mahbub

Sociale | Belgium | 2014 | HD | 6 min.

A man rages at the memories of war, border crossings, beatings and asylum, and at the hard years spent finding his place in a foreign land. He rages at the cosmic cruelty of having gone through all this for his loved ones, who died crossing the sea before they...

Datesunday 12 july

Location Villa Draghi - MONTEGROTTO TERME (PD), via E. Fermi

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I Want to See the Manager

by Hannes Lang

Documentario | Italy/Germany | 2014 | 4K | 93 min.

Against the backdrop of the constant changes in the world power structure, I Want to See the Manager traces the connections between economic rise and fall through seven paradigmatic cases: India, Bolivia, China, United States, Italy, Thailand and Venezuala. The film compares these local experiences and puts them into...

Datesaturday 11 july

Location Circolo Culturale I'M - ABANO TERME (PD), via A. Brustolon, 3

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Il gesto delle mani

by Francesco Clerici

Documentario | Italy | 2015 | 16:9 (e 16mm) | 77 min.

The documentary follows the creating process of a sculpture by artist Velasco Vitali from wax to bronze at the Fonderia Artistica Battaglia in Milan. A team of skilled artisans operates in a hundred-year-old foundry, their work showing an unchanged technique: lost-wax casting.  

Datesunday 12 july

Location Rustico di Villa Draghi - MONTEGROTTO TERME (PD), via E. Fermi

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Il mondo di Nermina

by Vittoria Fiumi

Documentario | Italy, Switzerland, Germany | 2014 | HD | 54 min.

Nermina survived the 1992 massacre in which many members of her family were killed. She has come back to live in her native village with her husband and children. She farms and breeds cows, the only means she has of making a living. Her two daughters, Almedina and Melisa,...

Datethursday 9 july

Location Fattoria Frassanelle Papafava - ROVOLON (PD), via Frassanelle, 14

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Il segreto

by cyop&kaf

Documentario | Italy | 2013 | DV PAL | 89 min.

In many areas of Naples the collection of trees for the Sait Anthony's bonfires is a tradition, a ritual, an adventurous game that gamins pass on from generation to generation. But who sees this from the outside often judges it as an act of vandalism... 

Datesunday 12 july

Location Rustico di Villa Draghi - MONTEGROTTO TERME (PD), via E. Fermi

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Striplife - Gaza in a Day

by Valeria Testagrossa, Nicola Grignani, Andrea Zambelli, Alberto Mussolini, Luca Scaffidi

Documentario | Italy | 2013 | HD | 64 min.

The Gaza Strip. A curious event happened during the night: dozens of mantas stranded on the main shore of Gaza City. Carts of fisher gather from all over the Strip to get some fresh fish. Antar forces his brother to get up: it's his big day, in the afternoon...

Datesaturday 11 july

Location Circolo Culturale I'M - ABANO TERME (PD), via A. Brustolon, 3

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The Tour Guide

by Amos Geva

Politico | Germany | 2014 | HD | 27 min.

The film is a portray of Nirit Ben Joseph (52) an Israeli woman who has been living in Berlin for 26 years. Moving to Berlin at the age of 25 for the love of a German partner, Nirit has since become an in-separate part of the city and is...

Datethursday 16 july

Location Castello di San Pelagio - DUE CARRARE (PD), via San Pelagio, 34

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