L’AMORE MOLESTO

L’AMORE MOLESTO

by MARIO MARTONE

Written by Mario Martone, Elena Ferrante / From the novel L’amore molesto by Elena Ferrante / Starring Anna Bonaiuto, Angela Luce, Lucia Maglietta, Gianni Cajafa, Peppe Lanzetta, Lina Polito, Italo Celoro / Produced by Teatri Uniti, Lucky Red, Rai Tre

Italy 1995 / 104’
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05.12.2020

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Delia comes back to Naples for the funeral of her mother Amalia and investigates in the last months of her life to understand her death. Little by little, Delia identifies with her mother in a lucid, painful and self-punishing delirium. She starts analysing herself, her memories, her and Amalia’s body, and the unchallenged balance which has remained the same in time and is rooted in a city under renovation  with an explosion of colours and an extraordinary polyphony of sounds.

INTERPETER

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Born in the Friuli region, but from an originally Neapolitan family, Anna Bonaiuto Anna Bonaiuto graduated from the National Academy of Drama and immediately started working with some prominent figures in the theatre such as Luca Ronconi, Mario Missiroli, Mario Martone and Carlo Cecchi. She made her debut in the cinema in 1973 with the film Teresa la ladra by Carlo Di Palma starring also Monica Vitti and Michele Placido.
That same year, Lina Wertmuller wanted her in her film Film d’amore e d’anarchia – Ovvero Stamattina alle 10 in via dei Fiori nella nota casa di tolleranza…
Since then, many directors have given her leading roles in their films, such as: Bruno Corbucci, Luciano Emmer, Pupi Avati, Giuseppe Ferrara, and Luigi Faccini.

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THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN

THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN

by SANDRA WOLLNER

Written by Sandra Wollner, Roderick Warich / Starring Lena Watson, Dominik Warta, Dominik Warta, Ingrid Burkjard, Jana McKinnon, Simon Hatzl / Produced by Panama Film

Austria – Germany 2019 / 95’
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02.12.2020

21:00

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Elli is an android built by a man, whom she identifies as her father, by reproducing the features of his daughter who had died some time earlier. He shares his memories with her and each day is identical to the other, when one night, Elli starts walking in the woods to chase a distant echo. In her second film as screenwriter and director, Sandra Wollner tells the story of a machine and the ghosts each of us carries inside.

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Born in 1983 in Styria, Sandra Wollneris an Austrian director and screenwriter, who is working on her second film this year: ‘The Trouble with Being Born’. Initially conceived to be her graduation project after completing her studies at the Film Academy Baden- Württemberg, it premiered at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival where he won the Jury Grand Prix in the section Encounters and the Prize of German Cinema Critics.

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NIGHT RIDE

by FRÉDÉRIC FARRUCCI

Written by Benjamin Charbit, Frédéric Farrucci / Starring Guang Huo, Camélia Jordana, Xun Liang, Maurice Cheng, Tien Shue / Produced by Koro Films

Austria – Germany 2019 / 95’
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29.11.2020

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Jin, an illegal immigrant in Paris,
makes his living by driving a night taxi without legal permit. He is a passionate DJ of electronic music and during one of his shifts he meets Naomi, a stripper. While planning together their escape, they start an affair with some danger.
In his debut film, Ferrucci uses a dark approach to present a face of the French capital different from the one shown in postcards by transporting the viewers to a dilapidated environment illuminated by neon lights.
Non-professional actors move in the circles of the local mafia, which has started a modern slavery based on the exploitation of illegal immigrants.

DIRECTOR

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Frédéric Farrucci has written and directed four fiction short films: ‘Entre les linges’ (selected for the Césars 2020), ‘Sisu’ in 2015, ‘Suis-je le gardien de mon frère? in 2012 and ‘L’offre et la demande’ in 2008. He has also produced several documentaries.
‘La nuit venue’ is his first feature film.

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METAMORPHOSIS IN SLAUGHTERHOUSE

METAMORPHOSIS IN SLAUGHTERHOUSE

by JAVAD DARAEI

Written by Javad Daraei / Starring Saeed Ahmadi, Fariba Talebi, Sarina Yousefi, Fariba Torkashvand, Farahnaz Manafizaher / Produced by Mehdi Koohzadeh

Iran – Germany – Canada 2020 / 80’
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02.12.2020

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Shadi lives in the same village
village where she lost
both her parents. They were accused of having killed Hasti, their daughter’s play-mate, so they were killed to revenge her death. The little Shadi was then adopted by her uncle but she had to face the marginalization the inhabitants of the village forced her to experience starting from school. Metamorphosis in Slaughterhouse describes the
cruelty of taking justice into one’s own hands and the social and psychological consequences it has on the individual. He does that through the clear, green eyes of someone, though innocent, who pays the highest price.

DIRECTOR

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Javad Daraei, Iranian director, chooses the path of
making cinema immediately after graduating from high school. After the short films I don’t like her (2016) and Limit (2017), Metamorphosis in Slaughterhouse (2019) was his debut feature film. By taking care of every aspect of his films, from the script to post-production, Daraei claims a cinematic philosophy (and practice): it is possible to make high-quality works also with a low budget.

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LOLA

by LAURENT MICHELI

Written by Laurent Micheli / Satrring Mya Bollaers, Benoit Magimel, Sami Outalbali, Els Deceukelier / Produced by Wrong Men, 10:15! Productions, Lunanime

Belgium – Francie 2019 / 90’
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04.12.2020

18:30

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Lola is a transsexual girl
who has just turned eighteen. She has moved away from her family
since two years and is now living in Brussels where she shares
a flat with her friend Antoine. She has decided to undergo sex reassignment surgery but her mother’s death forces her to come into contact again with her father. The two set off for a car trip to fulfil the deceased woman’s last wishes and they soon are cast into a conflict.
‘Lola’ is a road movie that explores
the dimension of time through the claustrophobic dimension of space. It looks into the deep chasm and ups and downs leading the protagonist to rise again from her own ashes.

DIRECTOR

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Laurent Micheli, born in 1982, he is a Belgian director and screenwriter active in theater and cinema. His debut in the cinema dates back to 2016 when he was still a student at La Fémis and shot ‘Even Lovers Get the Blues’. ‘Lola’ is yet another piece of a precise thematic vision whose narrative focuses on love relationships in the new millennium and on the liquidity of human relationships. The film has been welcomed by critics and has been nominated for seven Magritte prizes in 2020.

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L’AGNELLO

by MARIO PIREDDA

Written by Mario Piredda, Giovanni Galavotti / Starring Nora Sitassi, Luciano Curreli, Piero Marcialis, Michele Atzori / Produced by Chiara Galloni, Ivan Olgiati

Italy – France 2019 / 97’
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01.12.2020

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Anita, a teenager, plays the drums to cover the noise of the world outside her room. After her mother died of leukemia, she lived with her father Jacopo who became ill with the same pathology. The urgent need for a transplant and the fear of losing also her other parent drove the sixteen-year-old girl to contact
her uncle Gaetano, the only potential donor of bone marrow.
Jacopo and Gaetano have not spoken to each other for years and only Anita will be able to convince him to do the necessary tests.
Set in Sardinia, the drama directed by Piredda unveils a polluted and patriarchal land.
The lamb of the title, who is orphan of the mother and does not have many chances of surviving long, is probably
the transposition of the main character, who, on the contrary, is going to fight with all her strength so that life can triumph over death.

DIRECTOR

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Mario Piredda originally from Badessi (near Sassari), he moved to Bologna
after graduating from high school. Here he worked as a free- lance director, cameramen, and editor and graduated from DAMS, the performing arts disciplines department of the university with a focus on the cinema. In 2002 he founded Orfeo TV together with the association ‘Citoyens’, which started the telestreet phenomemon. . In 2005, he won the AVISA (an acronym for ‘visual anthropology in Sardinia’) competition promoted by ISRE and shot a short film titled ‘Il suono della miniera’. He has worked on and contributed to the preparation of many short films, documentaries, video clips and TV reports. In 2010 he directed the short film
‘Io sono qui’, which won the contest for cinema projects called ‘Storie di emigrati sardi’ (stories of Sardinian emigrants). ‘L’agnello’ is his first feature film.

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ISAAC

by JURGIS MATULEVIČIUS

Written by Jurgis Matulevičius, Nerijus Milerius, Saulė Bliuvaitė / Starring Aleksas Kazanavicius, Severija Janusauskaite and Dainius Gavenonis / Produced by Stasys Baltakis

Lithuania 2019 / 140’
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03.12.2020

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In 1941, a Lithuanian man kills
Isaac, his Jewish neighbor, during the infamous Lietukis garage massacre,
one of the first acts of the Holocaust carried out not by Germans but by Lithuanians. Twenty-five years later, in Soviet Lithuania, the director Gediminas Gutauskas returns from the United States with a new script for a film describing in detail the massacre of the Lietukis garage and in particular the killing of the Jewish man Isaac. The script later came to the attention of the KGB, which started investigating.
Based on the novel by Antanas Škėma, the film of the emerging director Jurgis Matulevičius explores the post-war sense of guilt, war traumas and experiences of the exile in an engaging film rich of surprises.

DIRECTOR

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Jurgis Matulevičius, born in 1989, he is a Lithuanian director and screenwriter. Isaac, marks his debut as director of a feature film and earned him the nomination for this year’s European Film Award in the category Best Young Film. He has also directed feature films: Anima Animus (2011), Absurd People (2011) and Victim (2012).

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A BLACK JESUS

by LUCA LUCCHESI

Written by Luca Lucchesi, Hella Wenders / Produced by Road Movies, NDRArte

Germany 2020 / 90’
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30.11.2020

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For years, the black Christ of Siculiana,
a town near Agrigento in Sicily, has been carried in a procession by local aristocrats chosen on
a hereditary base. This time it is the nineteen-year-old Edward from Ghana who
of the porters. This offer shakes up the community and fuels a heated debate which upsets the identity of one of the most deeply felt and ritualised religious celebrations
in the whole Mediterranean area.
A Black Jesus is a group work of a Sicilian author who has been working in Germany for years and manages to look at his land with an open mind, without a local approach. He therefore takes on a disruptive standpoint aimed
at challenging the very idea of border.

DIRECTOR

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Luca Lucchesi, has lived and worked for years between Berlin and Palermo. and since 2010 he has been a screenwriter and director for German cinema and television. In 2013 he established the production company Wunderland Filme with Hella Wenders. He mainly does documentaries and in the past few years also short music videos. One of his favourite themes is travelling.
He has been assistant director for Wim Wenders and has worked as photography director for the German director’s short film ‘Notes from a Day in the Life of an Architect’, which was presented at the Venice International Film Festival in 2012.

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SUK SUK

by RAY YEUNG

Written by Ray Yeung / From the novel Oral Histories of Older Gay Men in Hong Kong by Travis Kong / Starring Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Ben Yuen, Patra Au, Lo Chun Yip, Kong To, Yiu-Sing Lam / Produced by New Voice Film Productions

Hong Kong, China 2019 / 92’
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03.12.2020

21:00

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Pak is a taxi driver, while Hoi is a pensioner who spends most of his days at the park where they accidentally meet. where they accidentally meet. They both have in common their age (they are both in their seventies) and also their secret homosexuality. They both bear on their shoulders the burden and responsibility of their families, whom Hai, a single father, had to look after on his own.
Being in the twilight of their lives, the two protagonists, despite all the difficulties, experience something they cannot do without, that is a true, gentle and unconditional love. ‘Suk Suk’ was presented at the last Berlin Film Festival
and it has won many prizes earning recognitions across the world. It is not the first film Yeung dedicates to the LGBT issue, but it remains the first feature
film in Chinese language dealing
with homosexual love in elderly age.

DIRECTOR

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Born in Hong Kong, after having studied law, Ray Yeung decided to drop his career as a lawyer to follow his dream of becoming a full-time film director. He presented his first film, ‘Cut Sleeve Boys’, at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2005. It was distributed in several countries and was awarded prizes at many festivals. His second feature film, ‘Front Cover’, was also shown at many international film festivals where it has won prizes. During his career he has shot eight documentaries and commercials and has also directed two theatre plays.

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SOLEDAD

by AGUSTINA MACRI

Written by Agustina Macri, Paolo Logli / From the novel Amore e Anarchia by Martín Caparrós / Starring Vera Spinetta, Giulio Corso, Marco Cocci, Marco Leonardio / Produced by 39FILMS, Cinema 7

Italy – Argentina 2018 / 110’
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04.12.2020

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It is 1997 and the twenty-three-year- old Soledad Rosas leaves Argentina and her conservative family to start a new life in Italy. Soledad moves to a squat house
in Turin where she meets Edoardo Massari, with whom she starts a relationship. Happiness does not last long and in 5 March 1998 the two are arrested and charged with terrorist attacks against the high-speed railway line under construction.
The situation pushes them towards a point of no return. In her debut feature film as a director, Agustina Macri takes inspiration from Martín Caparrós’s novel to tell the troubled story of a young woman who tragically becomes the symbol of Italian anarchy.

DIRECTOR

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Director and a graduate sociologist, Agustina Macriis currently developing and producing films and documentary projects in different countries for which she is collaborating with the same documentary- maker team as Oliver Stone. Soledad, shot between Italy and Argentina, is based on the novel by Martín Caparrós and marks her debut as a feature film director. She has also directed audiovisual products for iconic Argentinian rock bands and the backstage of the documentary of the Cirque du Soleil for Soda Stereo, SET7IMO dia. Macri is currently working on a series of documentaries for Netflix such as Fangio and Boca Juniors.

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