Tuesday at Concorto is set to be a rather intensive day, so let’s see what is on the menu.
At the ARCI Rathaus club, the VR screenings of The Frame Beyond continue, while at the Ricci Oddi there is a double feature: the first day of Concorto Kids from 4:30 pm (featuring workshops, a snack, and a screening), followed at 5:00 pm by a talk with Legambiente titled “One Water. From the Bottle to the Rivers, in a Changing Climate”, which will be followed by a screening of the Supernature films. All three events are part of “La Memoria dell’Acqua” (The Memory of Water) project, supported by the “Idee in Azione” call from the IREN – Piacenza Local Committee.
At 9:00 pm we head over to Parco Raggio for the short films in competition; at 11:30 pm there is an unmissable concert with LOSTATOBRADO or, for the die-hards, a double screening in the greenhouse featuring Bodies of Melancholia and Indie_Genous.
And so, see you later!
Algumas Coisas Que Acontecem Ao Lado De Um Rio (A Few Things Happening by a River) – Daniel Soares
As seen by Vanessa Mangiavacca
A Portuguese fiction film presented in its Italian premiere at Concorto by Cannes Film Festival, Daniel Soares’ work offers a subtle yet sharp critique of society. Through a detached and observational approach, the director questions the way we live in the present, crossing spaces, and ultimately existing in the world. At the centre of the film is a river and its banks, a silent witness to the small intruder that is humanity, welcoming its people onto its banks. Around its flow, different people and lives come and go: a group of teenagers, an elderly woman, two riders, and a father. Ages, social background,relationships,and worries vary, yet none of them seems to truly notice the river. There is always something calling them elsewhere. Society intrudes even into the spaces seemingly removed from the world, constantly reminding them of its commandments: to appear, to work, to produce, to serve. It is a collective illness so widespread that it has become almost invisible.
Another Day in the Metal Box – Gleb Feldman
As seen by Elena Baldo
Another Day in the Metal Box by Gleb Feldman tells the story of Borys, a young Ukrainian worker who dreams of becoming an actor.
His monotonous life goes by between shifts at the factory, a beer at the bar, lunch breaks spent looking for auditions and news about the war between Russia and Georgia. It is a safe, stable life. Every time he tries to apply for an audition, he changes his mind: what’s the point? It’ll never happen.
One day, however,he finds a weird cube in the factory where he works. He walks into it. What is waiting for him on the other side is everything he ever dreamed of: an acting career, a victorious Georgia, free from Russia, and the life he never thought would come true.
The short film leaves us asking where reality ends and the dream begins, leaving us the task of tracing that boundary.
The End by Niki Lindroth von Bahr
As seen by Matilde Ambiveri
On an aeroplane, a couple of scorpions sip wine while watching a reality show, as pilots, passengers, and airport staff—all animals engaged in human activities—move around them. At the duty-free shop, a mouse looks for a gift for his children; the shop assistant suggests a crocodile-skin handbag before showing him a flute crafted from the very last cypress tree on Earth. The End builds an absurd, grotesque world in which animals take the place of human beings, even replicating the most destructive behaviours towards other species and the environment. The reality show, acting as an almost constant backdrop, accompanies a series of increasingly unsettling situations, until the airport empties completely. The now-deserted building appears to be the sole remaining site bearing witness to the end of everything.
Intersecting Memory – Shayma’ Awawdeh
As seen by Vanessa Mangiavacca
Walter Benjamin wrote that “history decays into images, not into stories”. And it is precisely from the fragments of home and family videos recovered by director Shayma’ Awawdeh that the historical narrative finds its lucidity and extreme cruelty once more, bringing to light in an evident and unassailable way the violence and injustice suffered by the Palestinian people. The recordings date back to the Second Intifada, when the director was just six years old: “My memory is blurry”, she confesses today. Yet while memories may be faded and fragmented, the images remain, in their profound cruelty and grief, to bear witness to what memory suppresses to protect itself from horror. Shayma’ Awawdeh overlays an intimate dialogue with her mother onto the footage, attempting to evoke and piece together a personal memory that inevitably entwines with the collective one—a memory that needs, every day, to be recalled, safeguarded, and shared.
Air Horse One – Lasse Linder
As seen by Serena Varrucciu
Legacy is a show jumping star, she always travels worldwide to take part in competitions, she is fed, taken care of and appreciated for her tame behaviour. Her owner jokingly talks about the privileged life her “baby” lives on the phone. The director chooses to quietly film what happens in this extraordinary horse’s everyday life without wanting the watcher to take pity on her, almost like he wanted to see the world through her eyes. He lingers on her eyes, shoots often her muzzle: Legacy observes, waits, it looks like she’s thinking and listening to the conversations, and accepts with a quiet resigned attitude this hectic life that her owner has chosen for her.
Lion Rock – Nick Mayow & Prisca Bouchet
As seen by Laura Savoini
How long does it take to go from being in the right to being in the wrong? According to Prisca Bouchet and Nick Mayow, the answer lies in the time it takes to change a song. After a day spent at the beach, a mother along with her son Sam—who is angry after she forbade him from venturing along the trails of Lion Rock with his friends—accidentally hits something without stopping to check who or what was involved. The short film is a crescendo of tension and suspicion, leading the viewer to imagine the most tragic scenarios, but above all to ask themselves: what would I do in their shoes? If the worst had happened, if what the mother describes as “just a branch” had been a human being, a flesh-and-blood life ending up beneath the car, how should one act? Because sometimes the right answer is not the desired one, and the wrong choice can leave you washing blood off your car in the middle of the night.
Please – Anna Mantzaris
As seen by Serena Varrucciu
“Do you still love me?” asks the manager of a company to his wife, while his employees wait outside his office, and almost shouting says “And why do you love me?”. There’s a need for love, true and authentic consideration for the other, physical contact that shows through every frame of this animated short movie. Many pictures and many lives that come together with something in common: insecurity. And from that comes out the heavily ironic, although bitter, element of employment. The technique follows perfectly the themes of the movie: This big and irregular puppets have the social media blank stare and their rough fabric shows every flaw when directly under the stern sun.
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