DOCS COMPETITION
Program 1
Cinema Lumière - Sala Officinema/Mastroianni
Wed - 8:00 pm
Thu - 10:30 am
GODOG
by Kohki Hasei, Giappone, 2007, 17’, DVCam, col.
Food = apocalypse
The day-to-day life of children who work and play among the trash heaps in the slums of Manila, Philippines.
RED GOLD / Oro rosso
by Travis Rummel, Ben Knight, USA, 2008, 55’, DigiBeta, col.
Food = landscape
UNO DEGLI ULTIMI / One of the Last
by Paul Zinder, Italia, 2007, 12’, DigiBeta, col.
Food = pride
Mauro Selvetti is a 78 year-old Tuscan farmer who harvests olives, grapes and cherries, offers anecdotes and advice about work and life in general.
Program 2
Cinema Lumière - Sala Officinema/Mastroianni
Wed - 10:00 pm
Thu - 12:30 am
COMBALIMON / Combalimon – l’ultima stagione / Combalimon – the Last Season
Italian première by Raphaël Mathie
Francia, 2008, 80’, MiniDV, col.
Food = subsistence
Jean can’t make his farm work like he used to, he’s been conned by his African wife, and he doesn’t have a dime. The time has come for him to sell his beloved Combalimon.
NOTRE PAIN CAPITAL / Il nostro pane Capitale / Our Deadly Bread
Italian première by Sani Elhadj Magori
Francia, Senegal, 2008, 13’, BetaSP, col.
Food = chain
In the streets of Saint Louis, Senegal, the food chain revolves around bread, from its production to the black market that supplies beggars.
Program 3
Cinema Lumière - Sala Scorsese
Wed - 9:45 pm
Thu - 12:00 am
KNEE DEEP
Italian première by Michael Chandler
USA, 2007, DigiBeta, 81’, col.
Food = crime
In the heart of America, a young farmer decides to kill his mother when he finds out that she wants to sell the family farm.
MOUSH VA GORBE / Il gatto e il topo / Cat and Mouse
by Bijan Zamanpira, Nahid Ghobadi
Iran, 2008, 26’, DvCam, col.
Food = poverty
A group of kids collect food scraps for money. These scraps are then reused by the food industry for packaged foods.
Program 4
Cinema Lumière - Sala Officinema/Mastroianni
Thu - 8:15 pm
Fri - 10:00 am
FOOD DESIGN
World première by Martin Hablesreiter, Sonja Stummerer
Austria, 2008, 52’, DigiBeta, col.
Food = research
The sound sausage makes when bitten, the form of frozen fish bars, the 52 grooves of a tea biscuit... Who decides all of this?
DAS PERFEKTE CHAOS - MIT DEN DABBAWALAS UNTERWEGS IN MUMBA / Dabbawala – pasti in consegna / Dabbawala – The Lunchbox Miracle
by Antje Christ
Germania, India, 2007, 50’30’’, DigiBeta, col.
Food = service
Every day in Mumbai 5000 Dabbawalas, the “box carriers” deliver 200,000 home cooked meals to workplaces.
Program 5
Cinema Lumière - Sala Scorsese
Thu - 10:15 pm
Fri - 12:00 am
PODUL DE FLORI / Il ponte di fiori / The Flower Bridge
by Thomas Ciulei
Romania, Germania, 2008, 87’, DigiBeta, col.
Food = home
In Moldavia, a father and his three children live in the countryside while his wife works in Italy and doesn’t have the papers to go back home.
BE WATER, MY FRIEND / Diventa acqua, amico mio
World première by Antonio Martino
Italia, 2009, 12’, MinDv, col.
Food = suffering
The despair of former fishermen in Muynaq, a ghost city that stands on what were once the shores of the Aral Sea. Its inhabitants are the victims of an unstoppable environmental disaster that has gone on for decades.
Program 6
Cinema Lumière - Sala Officinema/Mastroianni
Fri 8:30 pm
Sat 10:30 am
VINHO DE CHINELOS / Vino immigrante / Immigrant wine
by Paula Prandini
Brasile, 2008, 45’, Beta, col.
Food = pride
A young couple struggles to make an authentic Brazilian wine while trying to resist all the temptations of commercial wine.
LE DONNE DI ZERI / The Women of Zeri
World première by Walter Bencini
Italia, 2008, 52’, BetaSP, col.
Food = commitment
In Lunigiana three women – three shepherds – have revived a rare, endangered breed, Zeri sheep
Proiezione in Gustorama, con prodotti della lumigiana e vino brasiliano
Program 7
Cinema Lumière - Sala Officinema/Mastroianni
Fri 10:00 pm
Sat 11:45 am
THE LAST BUTCHER IN LITTLE ITALY / L’ultimo macellaio di Little Italy
Italian première by Laura Terruso
USA, 2008, 5’, 16 mm, col.
Food = memory
The story of one of the first Italian enclaves in America is told through the life of Moe Albanese, a butcher born in Little Italy in 1925.
PIRATE FOR THE SEA / Il pirata dei mari
Italian première by Ron Colby
USA, 2008, 101’, DigiBeta, col.
Food = cause
The adventurous story of Captain Paul Watson, the most controversial marine conservation activist of all time.
Program 8
Cinema Lumière - Sala Scorsese
Fri 10:00 pm
Sat 12:00 am
MILKBAR / Latteria
by Terese Mornvik, Ewa Einhorn
Svezia, 2007, 50’, DigiBeta, col.
Food = outreach
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, in Poland an ex-communist restaurant run by two stubborn women still serves meals for less than a Euro...
HOMEMADE SMARTIES / Smarties fatti in casa
Italian première by Böller und Brot
UK/Germania, 2007, 25’, MiniDV, col.
Food = discovery
Three children try to make the famous snack from scratch by using just the ingredients listed on the packaging.
AU CENTRE DE LA TERRE, DES PUITS ET DES HOMMES / Al Centro della terra, di pozzi e uomini / At the Center of the Earth, of Wells and Men
Italian première by Ingrid Patetta
Francia, Niger, 2008, 25’, MiniDv, col.
Food = magic
The portrait of a man and a traditional trade: a dowser who locates wells to be dug in the Niger desert.
Program 9
Cinema Arlecchino @ Un Film nel piatto
Sat 8:00 pm
Cinema Lumière - Sala Scorsese
Sun 8:30 pm
FOOD INC.
by Robert Kenner
USA, 2008, HD Cam, 94’, col
Program 10
Cinema Lumière - Sala Officinema/Mastroianni
Sat 8:00 pm
Sun 10:00 am
LES DAMNÉS DE LA MER/ I dannati del mare / The Damned of the Sea
by Rhalib Jawad
Belgio, 2008, 70’, DigiBeta, col.
Food = injustice
Essaouira, in Morocco, was the world’s first sardine fishing harbor… But today there are no more fish, and the local fishermen have moved further south where they clash with the big fishing boats from Europe…
POLLEN NATION / ImpolliNazione
by Singeli Agnew, Joshua Fisher
USA, 2007, 25’, DigiBeta, col.
Food = alarm
A beekeeper crosses the US with a truck full of bees and honey…
SALT IN THE SCARS / Segni di sale
by Fiorella Castanotto
Svizzera, 2008, 17’, DigiBeta, col.
Food = burden
In southern India, ever since Reena lost her husband she has been working as a salt gatherer in order to send her daughters to school.
Program 11
Cinema Lumière - Sala Officinema/Mastroianni
Sat 10:00 pm
Sun 12:00 am
TIERRA ARRASADA / Terra bruciata / Razed Land
by Victor Burgos Barreriro
Uruguay, 2008, 26’, DVCam, col.
Food = pollution
An alarming report on the enormous damage caused by the world’s largest genetically modified soy bean plantations in Brazil and Paraguay.
NDIE ZOT CIBO IN MEMORIA DEI MORTI / Ndie Zot - Food in Memory of the Dead
World première by Pietro Silvestri
Italia, 2008, 25’, MiniDV, col.
Food = ritual
In San Demetrio Corone in southern Italy, the Albanian community that settled there 500 years ago celebrates the dead during carnival season by bringing food and drink to the tombs of their loved ones.
IMÁDSÁG / Preghiera / Prayer
Italian première by Sándor Mohi
Ungheria, 2007, 27’, BetaSP, col.
Food = survival
The last five years in the lives of an elderly farming couple in the countryside.
RARE CHICKEN RESCUE / S.O.S. polli rari
by Randall Wood
Australia, 2008, 26’, Digibeta, col.
Food = biodiversity
After struggling with depression, Queensland rare chicken breeder Mark Tully dedicates his life to protecting endangered breeds of chicken.
Program 12
Cinema Lumière - Sala Scorsese
Sat 10:00 pm
Sun 11:45 am
LÉVESQUE ET FILS, MARAÎCHER(S) / Lévesque & figlio, orticultore/i / Lévesque & son, market gardener(s)
World première by Nicolas Lévesque
Canada, 2008, 19’, MiniDv, col.
Food = inheritance
It’s the end of the harvest season in Québec: Lévesque is at the end of his working days and is looking for someone to take over his farming business… But his son has a different job.
A GIFT FROM TALKING GOD - THE STORY OF THE NAVAJO-CHURRO SHEEP / Un dono dal dio parlante – La storia delle pecore navajo-churro
World première by Peter Blystone, Margaret Chanler
USA, 2008, 30’, DvCam, col.
Food = identity
Navajo-Churro sheep are prized for their meat and wool, which the Navajos and Pueblos use for making rugs, saddle blankets and clothing as well as for religious rituals.
OVER LAND / La terra
European première by Steve Suderman
Canada, 2008, 60’, DigiBeta, col.
Food = bond
In Canada, the intimate portrait of a family of farmers during the farming crisis between 1996 and 2006.
