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Cahiers

by Alessandro Stevanon

Documentary | Italy | 2011 | HD | 52 min.

Two little towns perched on the mountain tops of Valle d’Aosta, each one with a language and dialects of his own, but bound together by mutual traditions. One day in an ordinary school, told through the spontaneity and the joy of the pupils of two little elementary schools. A...

» location: TORREGLIA, Villa dei Vescovi

» date: sunday 15 july

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Himself he cooks

by Valérie Berteau

Documentary | Belgium | 2011 | HDV | 65 min.

In the Golden Temple in Amritsar hundreds of volunteers prepare 100.000 free meals every day. The spontaneous choreography of many philanthropists hands reveals the essence and atmosphere of this fascinating place.

» location: BATTAGLIA TERME, Castello del Catajo

» date: thursday 19 july

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Il castello

by Massimo D'Anolfi

Documentary | Italy | 2011 | DigiBeta | 88 min.

  Il castello describes Malpensa airport, a place where bureaucracy, procedure and control put a strain on the liberty of people, animals and goods that transit there. The airport is a strategic place, where all the security forces of a country are brought together. Here new forms of control are experimented: this is a...

» location: TORREGLIA, Villa dei Vescovi

» date: saturday 14 july

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La nature des choses

by Audrey Espinasse

Documentary | France | 2011 | DV | 15 min.

Lambs, fire, men : the celebration of Easter throught the elaboration of a meal in a benedictin monastery.

» location: TORREGLIA, Villa dei Vescovi

» date: saturday 14 july

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Planete Kirsan

by Magdalena Pieta

Documentary | Poland | 2010 | DigiBeta | 50 min.

13-year old Alehan and his brother Amir spend several hours everyday hunched over a chessboard. It’s his biggest dream to become the next World Chess Champion. The first step on the way to become a grandmaster is a tournament in Chess-City. The event. Full of young players, allows us...

» location: TORREGLIA, Villa dei Vescovi

» date: sunday 15 july

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Profughi a Cinecittà

by Marco Bertozzi

Documentary | Italy | 2011 | Digital Beta | 61 min.

The film chronicles the transformation undergone by Cinecittà in the years 1943 to 1950, through the Nazi occupation, the creation of a refugee camp by the Allies and, finally, the emergence of the so-called "Hollywood on the Tiber". After being a concentration camp for nine hundred men rounded up in...

» location: TORREGLIA, Villa dei Vescovi

» date: saturday 14 july

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Returns

by Krzysztof Kadlubowski

Documentary | Poland | 2010 | DigiBeta | 7 min.

On April 10th in the morning first unsettling news about the air catastrophe of the government plane Tu-154 reached Poland. On the board of the plane there was the President of the Polish Republic – Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria, government representatives, state institutions officials, members of parliament, church...

» location: TORREGLIA, Villa dei Vescovi

» date: saturday 14 july

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The last chapter

by Maximilian Haslberger

Documentary | Germany | 2012 | HD | 84 min.

Branko undertakes his last journey. Prior to his passing, he makes the final arrangements for his funeral, and attempts to enjoy his remaining days as much as possible. Though he experiences emotional ups and downs, he works to remain in good humor as those around him admire his perseverance....

» location: TORREGLIA, Villa dei Vescovi

» date: saturday 14 july

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The well - Voci d'acqua dall'Etiopia

by Paolo Barberi, Riccardo Russo

Documentary | Italy | 2011 | HDV | 56 min.

We are in the Horn of Africa, a region of the world that is cyclically devastated by drought. Here, in the arid expanses of Oromia (Southern Ethiopia), every year when the dry season is at the pek, Borana shepherds gather with all the animals around their old wells "singers," human...

» location: TORREGLIA, Villa dei Vescovi

» date: sunday 15 july

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The white treasure

by Eva Katharina Bühler

Documentary | Bolivia - Germany - Swiss | 2011 | HD | 52 min.

Don Rosauro is standing in the middle of an endless white desert. He ́s a salt worker at Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. For generations the dependants of the Ayamara Indians have been mining salt here. The salt lake ́s ground is assumed to hold the world ́s biggest...

» location: TORREGLIA, Villa dei Vescovi

» date: sunday 15 july

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Written in ink

by Martin Rath

Documentary | Poland | 2011 | 35mm | 12 min.

Written in Ink is a documentary about hope. The poignant story of a man trying to regain contact with his sister after 14 years of silence. But can one change what has already been written in ink?

» location: TORREGLIA, Villa dei Vescovi

» date: saturday 14 july

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Zavorra

by Vincenzo Mineo

Documentary | Italy | 2012 | HDV | 50 min.

Often elderly people live in isolation on the edge of a social and emotional condition. Hospices are a great help because offer them support and care, the opportunity to have companionship and comfort.

» location: TORREGLIA, Villa dei Vescovi

» date: sunday 15 july