Wednesday at Concorto starts with a Wine & Gastronomic tour to the Tenuta Pernice, sponsor of our wines. We hope the guests will come back and not decide to stay and enjoy the hills of Piacenza until late in the evening. However, if it were to happen, we would totally understand them.
If you are one of those who consider cinema a religion, you should not miss the second part of the Forever Young Focus at 6 pm at XNL, where some of the most beautiful short films that have been presented at Concorto in recent years will be screened.
Tonight, as always, the entrance will open at 8:15 pm, the screening of the films competing will start at 9 pm and then three events will follow: at 11:30 pm the After Babel talk with Nicola Manuppelli and Isabella Carini at the Boschetto, at 11:30 pm the Back to Black Focus in the Greenhouse and at 00:15 am the Deep Night Focus.
Le départ – Said Hamich
As seen by Sofia Brugali
Summer 2004 becomes a bridge over the Mediterranean Sea for eleven-year-old Adil, with Morocco on one side and France on the other. At one end the country where he was born and where he lives: the familiar places, his mother, the sun, the afternoons spent playing with his friends; at the other the promise of new possibilities, his dad and brother, a world full of “women who swim like sardines”. He is leaving is happy life in exchange for…? Saïd Hamich describes the experience of migration from the standpoint of a kid, also exposing the relation of dependency that still exists between Morocco and France.
The natural death of a mouse – Katharina Huber
As seen by Sofia Brugali
Summer 2004 becomes a bridge over the Mediterranean Sea for eleven-year-old Adil, with Morocco on one side and France on the other. At one end the country where he was born and where he lives: the familiar places, his mother, the sun, the afternoons spent playing with his friends; at the other the promise of new possibilities, his dad and brother, a world full of “women who swim like sardines”. He is leaving is happy life in exchange for…? Saïd Hamich describes the experience of migration from the standpoint of a kid, also exposing the relation of dependency that still exists between Morocco and France.
Malumore – Loris Giuseppe Nese
As seen by Sofia Brugali
The ominous ticking of the clock marks the working day of a caregiver: tick-tock the loneliness, tick-tock the wearying recurrence of similar days, tick-tock the monotony that makes every old person look like the other, tick-tock the temporary wait for death, its coming and the need to find a new job. Malumore catches the precarious condition of those who tend to the elderly and support them during their unavoidable decline until death: a story narrated through the intimate, subjective gaze of a daughter.
When I dance, the earth trembles – Otto Reuschel
As seen by Carlotta Magistris
Berlin. A sequence shot follows, almost from an anthropological point of view, some of the characters that live in the city of freedom, where unappreciated youngsters look for answers for their disquiet in a place that seems built exactly to give these answers. But as in every fairy tale, a dark side is just around the corner and generally affects that side of society whois not looking for the escapism that the place can offer. A city cannot be all slogans, ecology, avantgarde, and progressivism. Take a closer look.
Swallow the universe – Nieto
As seen by Vanessa Mangiavacca
In the short film Swallow the Universe, the eclectic style of Japanese painter and illustrator Daīchi Mori comes to life through Nieto’s enigmatic direction: consistent with the technique typical of this artist (who only paints on 3-meter rolls), a three-dimensional roll stretches out for the entire duration of the film like a dashboard coming alive in a long sequence plan. The film genesis is equally eccentric and coherent: Nieto, during a trip to Japan, is fascinated by a group of old ladies who live with the most unlikely pets and where he meets Daīchi Mori’s grandmother, who shows him the paintings of her grandson. The universe of Japanese tradition mixes with that of manga, with overwhelming colors, trails, and blurred shifts, till the balance of the animal kingdom gets suddenly upset by the arrival of a child. This brings to life a story made of many roads and circles of hell, whose endless interpretations depend only on the imagination of who is watching. A frog with a robotic voice will accompany you through this not to be missed animation, premiering in Italy at Concorto.
My mother’s girlfriend – Arun Fulara
As seen by Sofia Brugali
In the short film Swallow the Universe, the eclectic style of Japanese painter and illustrator Daīchi Mori comes to life through Nieto’s enigmatic direction: consistent with the technique typical of this artist (who only paints on 3-meter rolls), a three-dimensional roll stretches out for the entire duration of the film like a dashboard coming alive in a long sequence plan. The film genesis is equally eccentric and coherent: Nieto, during a trip to Japan, is fascinated by a group of old ladies who live with the most unlikely pets and where he meets Daīchi Mori’s grandmother, who shows him the paintings of her grandson. The universe of Japanese tradition mixes with that of manga, with overwhelming colors, trails, and blurred shifts, till the balance of the animal kingdom gets suddenly upset by the arrival of a child. This brings to life a story made of many roads and circles of hell, whose endless interpretations depend only on the imagination of who is watching. A frog with a robotic voice will accompany you through this not to be missed animation, premiering in Italy at Concorto.
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