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- BERCHIDDA LIVE - a journey through the Time in Jazz archive collects and processes more than 1,500 hours of archive material filmed over 25 years by Gianfranco Cabiddu and his crew in the various editions of Time in Jazz, a music festival created and directed by Paolo Fresu in his home town of Berchidda, Sardinia. Mellara, Rossi and Cabiddu mixed these largely unpublished film materials to compose a concert film spanning almost forty years, an interweaving of music and places, emotions and memories. A unique cinematic and musical experience, a precious legacy.
- They are full professors, associate professors, researchers, assistants, PhD students, secretaries, ushers, porters. They agitate in crowded lecture halls, historical buildings, corridors and libraries of the phantasmagorical 'Faculty of Sociology of Dead Languages' of an imaginary Italian university that wants at all costs to climb the rankings of the world's universities in order to win more funding. Every day they come up against an army of students from all over Italy, some will stay for the years it takes to finish their studies, others will remain bogged down for many years. Students and professors are forced to share, in a comic game of forced relationships, toilets, classrooms, corridors, time, life plans, aspirations and nightmares. The stories and desires of the protagonists will not come true and the University instead of reaching the top of the ranking will plummet to the bottom. ""Universitas tenebrarum"" is a series of short episodes with an immediate, acidic comedy that plunges the viewer into a ramshackle and ridiculous world.
- Cars affect our primary senses on all levels, they define our world and change our contemporary society. Our tastes have changed: drive-in food, that was once at most a monthly family treat has now become an essential daily ritual in our fast-paced, consumer society. We barely notice the smell of exhaust fumes but more and more people are getting sick from atmospheric pollution. The quest for perfection in style and shape pushes car designers to innovate constantly, looking to create an emotional connection between man and machine from the first touch. Our cities are now designed in function of cars, changing what we see and our perception of the world we live in. People have a love-hate relationship with cars. The film seeks to question the car myth, something that is deeply rooted in our consumer society. A group of primary school's kids guide the spectators in a journey into our imaginary. Using automotive archives and through the involvement in a dynamic way of scientists, engineers, anthropologist and racing drivers, the film explores how the car has changed not only the cities we live in but also our lives.
- Why is it that fifteen million people die from easily curable diseases in the southern hemisphere every year? A daily massacre that could so easily be avoided. Why? In an attempt to answer this question, Health for Sale aims to investigate the problem of access to essential pharmaceutical drugs in developing countries, taking into account economic, political, medical and social perspectives. We believe a problem as serious, wide-ranging and complex as this requires greater depth of analysis, naturally without overlooking the need for communicative simplicity. It is for this reason that we have chosen to adopt an animated figure to guide the viewer towards a more direct and immediate understanding of the more complicated issues, such as the realities of the global pharmaceuticals market and the history of the various international agreements that have been reached.
- In the last few years, everywhere in the world, individuals and small groups of people have started to cultivate vegetables in their own gardens, in their allotments, in their balconies, in their terraces and in neglected places of their cities. They do that, because they want fresh and healthy food, they want to change their way of life, the place where they live and the urban environment. "God save the green" tells the stories of people who are regaining a sense of community through gardening and, at the same time, they are changing their lives and the places they live in. The stories take place in the peripheries of large and medium-sized cities in the northern and southern hemispheres: Turin, Bologna, Nairobi, Casablanca, Berlin, Teresina. The film evoke the nature beauty that can exist inside our cities. A poetical narration, based on Karel Capek and R. Borchardt texts, unfold the strong relationship between mankind and the urban nature. The narration flows into six possible and innovative routes to follow in finding a way to produce healthy and nutritious foods on one's own, perhaps even to sell some of them. The six routes are: the last garden in one of the most crowded peripheries of Casablanca; hydroponic cultivation in Teresina, Brazil; community gardens in Berlin; growing vegetables inside bags in one of Nairobi's slums; hanging gardens in Berlin, Turin and Bologna; Guerrilla gardening in Berlin. "God save the green" is a film about the creation of a new possible urban landscape, the third landscape, where green space is not merely a decorative feature but is something that is lived-in, creative
- A documentary chronicling the last year of Lindsay Kemp's life.
- Santarcangelo Festival turns 50 years old. 13 directors took turns at work for a festival which has a strong identity. Santarcangelo Festival is a model of organization of a festival and an essential guide to understand the evolution of the performing arts in Europe. From the political theatre of the early '70s to the Third Theatre of the '80s; from actors to performers; and finally to the Festival of Arts. For the first time the history of the most important festival in Italy told in a documentary. Santarcangelo Festival: one of the most esteemed in Europe. Unique and unpublished archive materials, exclusive interviews, internationally renowned protagonists, for an exciting narrative collage.
- The incredible story of a world famous scientist, Cesare Maltoni, who devoted his entire life to study dangerous chemical substances in order to help workers and implement cancer prevention. He introduced in Italian health care system the pap test for women and built the first Italian hospice.
- Paolo Fresu's 60th birthday, is the occasion for a great event: a concert held in the historical rooms of the Archiginnasio in Bologna.
- The painter, photographer and experimental filmmaker Jan Jedlicka lost the landscape of his youth. The political situation after 1968 forced him to emigrate from Czechoslovakia. He settled down in Switzerland. For almost 10 years, he was looking for a new inspiration when suddenly, during a holiday trip, he felt in love with the flat landscape of Maremma region in Tuscany. He found his new artistic home there and, as an artist, he began from scratch.
- The documentary narrates about Bologna, about doing politics in Bologna, from 1945 to 1977. The narration of the film goes on sometimes by evocations, sometimes by pointing out historically important phases in the political, social and cultural life of the city. A city which rapidly went out the reconstruction phase and became a national guide in the creation of an economic development model based on small and medium enterprises, on distribution and production foods consortia, on building mutual companies and local banks. On the other side, Bologna put fore-front social services in the field of elderly persons cares, of family and children sustains, with a great efficiency in the health care and in the public green safeguard. Bologna was the ex-partisans's and anti-fascist's invention of a possible city: livable, lively, supportive and comfortable.