Ilaria Braccialini, Federica Oriente
I, 2024, col., 73′
v.o. Italian – Moldavian
Preview
Johana is a young illegal immigrant from Moldova who, after losing her friend Alina, kidnaps a taxi driver in order to escape the prostitution racket. This will be an opportunity to discover herself. The two film directors are the founders of the Oxymoro Creative Studio collective. Il canto di Alina is their debut film.
- Tuesday 21
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 16:00
Wandering Souls
Maria Giménez Cavallo
USA – I, 2024, b&n o col., 71’
Italian – Sardinian dialect – French o.v
Inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Wandering Souls mixes visual and musical ethnography with classical mythology, documentary methods with fantasy. The intertwined destinies of Ovid’s characters culminate during the autochthonous carnival. Wandering Souls was one of the projects selected by This Is It in 2023 and had its premiere at Alice nella città in Rome.
- Wednesday 22
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 16:00
Charlotte, One of Us
Rolando Colla
CH-I, 2024, col., 117’
German – Italian o.v.
European Premiere
Charlotte lives in seclusion with her father in Trentino. She is mentally impaired and lives in a world of her own. When her father is hospitalised for a heart attack, Charlotte’s younger brother Leo returns to the village after a long absence and asks her to go to Switzerland with him. It is the beginning of an adventure, which will lead her to discover her true self.
- Thursday 23
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 20:00
Enrico Masi
I – F, 2024, col., 93’
English – French – German – Italian o.v
In the Italian Alps, a family of German origin lives without electricity apart from society. On the other side of the Alpine border, in France, an immense plant is being built to research atomic fusion. Terra Incognita is a dialogue between opposing development models and premiered at the latest Festival dei Popoli in Florence.
- Friday 24
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 18:00
Giovanni C. Lorusso
I – F – LB, 2024, col. & b-n / b-w, 73’
Arabic o.v
We choose the beginning, but the end chooses us, and there is no road except the road. This film is the result of a 2 year relationship with the community of Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian residents of Shatila Camp and more specifically with the Alhaddad family. Song of All Ends premiered at Rotterdam IFF.and then was presented at Bellaria FF.
- Friday 24
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 16:00
Waiting Time Claudia Brignone
I, 2023, col., 75’
Italian o.v.
A group of women meet once a week with Teresa, a midwife, an experienced and revolutionary woman, who guides and supports them during pregnancy. They discuss the birth of the child they are carrying in their wombs and the birth of themselves as new mothers. Waiting Time premiered at the Turin FF, where it won the Special Jury Prize.
- 2024
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 18:00
Solitude, It’s That Andrea Adriatico
I, 2023, col., 98’
Italian o.v.
The film tells the story of Pier Vittorio Tondelli through his words and his books, reread by seven writers of today, born in the very ’80s that Tondelli traversed and described. The film premiered at the latest Rome Film Festival.
- 2024
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 22:00
Ludovica Fales
I – SLO, 2023, col., 85’
Italian – Romanian – Romanés o.v.
The staging of a film about an undocumented girl becomes the pretext to involve a group of young migrants in a collective reflection on the difficulties they face in the attempt to emancipate themselves from their condition of invisibility.
Lala premiered at the latest Bellaria Film Festival, where it won the MYMovies Award.
- 2024
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 16:00
Marco Amenta
I – F, 2023, col., 122’
Italian o.v.
Anna runs a farm in Sardinia. At night she lets go in sensual dances in the village bar and indulges in short-lived adventures. Until one day, the construction of a mega-resort on her land forces her to engage in the biggest battle of her life. Annapremiered at the latest Venice Days. *Born in Trieste: film whose project was pitched at When East Meets West
*Born in Trieste: film whose project was pitched at When East Meets West
- 2024
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 22:00
The Golden Egg White
Samira Guadagnuolo, Tiziano Doria
I, 2023, b-w, 65’
Italian o.v.
A white hen, animal guide, takes us through a suspended and magical Mediterranean landscape. The film was made in complete autarky. Subject, production and 16mm processing were carried out by Warshadfilm – Tiziano Doria, Samira Guadagnuolo – in their Milanese laboratory.
- 2024
Cinema Ambasciatori
At 14:00
