THE FESTIVAL
PROGRAM
SELECTION
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DOCUMENTARIES
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6 CONCEPTIONS OF FREEDOM
by Thomas A østbye
Norway | 2007 | 35mm | 20 min.
| italian subtitles by EMM
”6 conceptions of freedom” is a strong visual documentary wich looks at social and physical frames of imagination. It explores loneliness and powerlessness in our ideal of ”freedom”. Asking wether freedom a question of uncertainty or happiness, action or condition?
see all details monday 9 July
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A VERDADE DO GATO
by Jeremy Hamers
Belgium | 2006 | DV | 52 min.
| italian subtitles by EMM
Carmo do Rio Verde, in Brazil, is a village that exists thanks to sugar cane exploitation. A company deals there with the complete making of alcohol, owns the fields or rents them, and has 2000 workers, of which 1200 seasonal workers hired by « El gato », « The Cat ». Thanks to his promises – a nice salary and a fine shelter – he gets a 4 % share of everyone’s salary … The work starts, and the exploiting. Between sweat and ashes the film unveils, on a poetical manner, the human price of Brazil’s fortune, its ‘clean’ fuel…
see all details saturday 14 July
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LILLI
by Oliwia Tonteri
Finland | 2007 | DigiBeta | 26 min.
| italian subtitles by EMM
The film draws a picture of Lilli, a young opiate addict growing into womanhood, by looking at her diaries in which she vividly conveyed her feelings, perceptions and fantasies until the age of 20.
see all details friday 13 July
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WANTED
by Irati Elorrieta Agirre
Germany - Spain | 2006 | DV | 51 min.
| italian subtitles by EMM
I fell in love with Berlin. I fell in love with her spaces. Such spooky spaces in a paradigmatic city of transformation. Empty spaces, habitable spaces, in which a message could be left, a story could begin.
For one year I have filmed my rambles around the city and my encounters with some artists that take, invade these spaces. 6, Nomad, Miss Riel, Gould or Idee are some of the main characters, who share their Moments, their Stories with us. Like children, they paint and get dirty, cut and paste, find objects, jump over fences, climb walls, make presents. That's how they build their city, bu
see all details wednesday 11 July
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