An Endless Sunday
Teresa the thief
Sicily!
UM FILME EM FORMA DE ASSIM (A FILM LIKE THIS)
UM FILME EM FORMA DE ASSIM (A FILM LIKE THIS)
by JOÃO BOTELHO
Written by João Botelho, Maria Antónia Oliveira / Photography João Ribeiro / Editing João Braz / Starring Pedro Lacerda, Inês Castel-Branco, Cláudio da Silva / Produced by Ar de Filmes
Portugal, 2022 – 101’
V.O. sub. ITA
Italian premiere
11.11.2022
22:30
Cinema De Seta
Special Screenings
The life of Portuguese writer Alexandre O’Neill portrayed in a chaotic and dreamlike musical atmosphere. An unexpected story that grasps a part of the unattainable life the poet left to the world.
DIRECTOR
João Botelho is one of the most prolific Portuguese directors to date. His films have participated in the most renowned international film festivals and he has received many accolades, such as the OCIC Promotional Award, Forum of New Cinema in 1986 in Berlin and ‘Premio Fondazione Mimmo Rotella’ in 2001 in Venice. Retrospectives of his work have been organized in Bergamo (1996), in La Rochelle, which also dedicated a monographic publication to him (1998), at the Cinémathèque in Luxemburg, and at the LEFEEST (2018) in Lisbon.
THE SPRAYER
THE SPRAYER
by
Farnoosh Abedi
Written by Farnoosh Abedi / Editing Reza Eslami, Farnoosh Abedi / Music by Soroosh Abedi
Iran, 2022 – 10’
V.O.
05.11.2022
19:30
Cinema De Seta
Special Screenings
In the land occupied with the sprayers army, no one has the right to grow any kind of plants either in public or private. So many of the people and soldiers do not even know how dose a plant grows or look like, until one day one of the soldiers finds a seed buried deep down in the dust and his curiosity is just the beginning of something extraordinary, something big, something revolutionary
DIRECTOR
Farnoosh Abedi was born in 1985 in Isfahan (Iran).
Graduated in theater from Art & Architecture University Has been Making animation since 2000;
he has made more than 20 short animated films, TV series, documentaries and several commercial TV.
His films was presented and screened in more than 100 domestic and international film festivals.
GRAMSCI’S NOTEBOOKS
GRAMSCI’S NOTEBOOKS
by MIKE HOOLBOOM
Written by Mike Hoolboom / Editing Mike Hoolboom / Produced by Mike Hoolboom
Canada 2021 / 15’
V.O. sub. ITA
out of competition
19.11.2021
10:30
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Efebo Specials
RESERVED FOR CSC STUDENTS
During his trip to Italy,
in 2019, when he was at the Efebo d’Oro as a guest, Mike Holboom shot footage that he has used to build his insightful reflections on the sense of travelling and visiting new places that he pieced together with the mastery and thoughtfulness that have always characterised him. Recalling also that Antonio Gramsci was a jogger…
DIRECTOR
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Born in Toronto in 1959, Mike Hoolboomhe is a prolific and versatile experimental filmmaker, emerged during the mid-1980. In parallel with his cinematographic production, he is also a critic and a curator and he is considered one of the greatest Canadian experimental filmmakers along with Michael Snow.
Fascinated with dismantling the mechanics of meanings,
he shot much of his early work using his father’s Super 8 camera. His works investigates how physicality determines perception and also how an image-saturated mass culture determines problems of perception.
AVANT LA FIN DE L’ÉTÉ
AVANT LA FIN DE L’ÉTÉ
by MARYAM GOORMAGHTIGH
Written by Maryam Goormaghtigh, Christian Tarabini / Photography Maryam Goormaghtigh / Editing Gwénola Héaulme / Produced by Intermezzo Films, 4A4 Productions, Sunny Independent Pictures, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, Salvajes Productions
France, Switzerland 2017 / 80’
V.O. sub. ITA
out of competition
18.11.2021
15:30
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Efebo Specials
RESERVED FOR CSC STUDENTS
After five years studying in Paris, Arash has not adjusted to life there and has decided to return to Iran to live. Jolted by the news, his two friends Hossein and Nima, who do not want him to leave, convince him to take a last trip through France – secretly hoping he will change his mind.
DIRECTOR
Avant la fin de l’été (Before summer ends), il primo lungometraggio di Maryam Goormaghtigh, del 2017, ha avuto la sua prima a Cannes, come apertura dell’ACID programme, ed ha poi viaggiato
in over 30 festivals internationally. It won the Emerging Swiss Talent Award at ZFF, the Fiction/Non- Fiction Prize at Docs Against Gravity and was given a special mention at the BFI London Film Festival. It was nominated at the Trophées Francophones du Cinéma 2018 and for the Swiss Film Award 2018 as well as for the International Press Prize in the Best French Language Film category.
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ANIMA BELLA
ANIMA BELLA
by DARIO ALBERTINI
Written by Dario Albertini, Simone Ranucci / Photography Giuseppe Maio / Editing Desideria Rayner / Starring Madalina Di Fabio, Luciano Miele, Piera Degli Esposti, Enzo Casertano, Paola Lavini, Elisabetta Rocchetti, Antonio Noto, Alessandra Scirdi / Produced by BiBi Film, Elsinore Film with Rai Cinema
Italy 2021 / 90′
V.O.
out of competition
Gioia, who has just turned eighteen, lives with her father in a village in central Italy. Here she takes care of the whole community by bringing them thermal water for its well- known therapeutic properties.
Experiencing sacrifice, dedication, and love
for her father will take her to leave her village of origin and turn her life upside down.
DIRECTOR
Dario Albertinistarted his career in documentaries and he personally took care of all the aspects of the production: sound, music, and photography. Slot – Le intermittenti luci di Franco, his first documentary, was awarded many prizes (D.E.R Visioni Doc, ‘Adriano Asti’ Best Documentary, Cinemadocumentario, ‘Marcellino De Baggis’, and reached the finals for the ‘Doc/it Professional Award’).
La Repubblica dei Ragazzi won the ‘400 colpi Vittorio Veneto Film Festival’ and the ‘Cinema Fedic’ prize. Manuel (2018) is his first fiction film and was presented at Venice Film Festival. Anima bella is the only Italian film in the section ‘Alice nella Città – Concorso Young Adult’ at the Rome Film Fest 2021.
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