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Be water, my friend

by Antonio Martino

Documentary | Italy - Uzbekistan | 2009 | Mini dv | 15 min.

date
thursday 22 july
location
GALZIGNANO TERME, Piazza S. Maria Assunta

“Things today are not as they were yesterday nor as they will be tomorrow”. This sentence summarizes the despair and resignation of the ex fishermen of Muynag, a small town on the ex shores of the Lake Aral. The village, by now abandoned, and his inhabitants are victims of an unstoppable environmental disaster which has been taking place for decades.

Antonio Martino (1977), young independent director who won the prize Ilaria Alpi in 2007, has been making documentaries on the complex relationship between man and the environment for years. Among his works we find: Niguri (2010), Be water, my friend (2009), “Pancevo_mrtva grad” (2007), “Gara de Nord-copii de strada” (2006), “Blu Panorama” (2005), “Noi siamo l'aria, non la terra” and “Fatma aba Ad” (2004), “Siamo Fatti Così” (2003), “Colorado” (2001).

Direction
Antonio Martino
Story
Antonio Martino
Script
Antonio Martino
Photography
Antonio Martino
Editing
Antonio Martino
Music
Antonio Martino, Marco Pianges, Leonida Maria, Caterina Pettiti, Davide Severi
Cast
Stefano Piastra, Mirzaev Zakirjan, Tadzhiev Ruslan, Lina Gregari
Production
Videoinflussi produzioni, Antonio Martino, Claudio Mazzanti
Distribution
Videoinflussi
Web site
www.antoniomartino.net, www.videoinflussi.org

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