Film Title: Cuddler

Director: Bohdan Turok

Sinossi

Marie, a 28 year old university graduate, cuddles people for money. She offers affection to people of all ages and insists that her services are a symptom of a world in distress, a world ridden by isolation and severed by technology. Her business is thriving but just as she settles into her profession, she faces a client who will challenge her unwittingly beyond all her expectations. Marie discovers that the deeper into a lie you enter, the closer to truth you get.

Special mentions:

– Menzione per la regia a Guillaume Vandenberghe per “The Soul is Wondering”.

– Menzione per il montaggio a Tyler Wallach per “Frog”

– Menzione per la fotografia a Sudipta Majumdar per “Jaal – The Cobweb”

Film Title: Francesca Woodman

Director: Marco Berton Scapinello

Sinossi

The American photographer Francesca Woodman influences until constituting turning point the life and the work of the protagonist Paul, a photographer at the height of his career facing an artist and interior crisis.

La fotografa statunitense Francesca Woodman influenza fino a costituirne punto di svolta nella vita e nel lavoro del protagonista Paolo, fotografo all’apice della sua carriera che deve affrontare una crisi artistica e interiore.

Special mentions:

Menzione per il montaggio a Marco Fusi e Nicolò Tagliabue per “Normality”

Film Title: Canoes for Perù

Director: Kieran Hodges

Sinossi

Documentary of an epic project bringing canoeing to the Amazon. The trials and tribulations of getting canoes there and then canoeing the Alta Madre de Dios river in the Peruvian Amazon. Its a story about effort and life in a isolated part of the world experiencing great change.

Special mentions:

– Menzione per la regia a Andrei Florescu per “Ecaterina 33”

Film Title: The Water Keepers. Carnia Arises

Director: Giulio Squarci

Sinossi

In Carnia, a remote area in the Eastern Alps in Italy, time seems to be passing asleep along the cyclical rhythms of nature. An intervention on local water resources, dictated by external economic interests, unexpectedly moves the local population’s sense of attachment of the territory. Through a moderate provincial revolution the people of Carnia will be able to rejoin their motions to a larger movement, which is opposed to the privatization of hydro-services. This independent documentary emphasizes people‘s relationship with water and the issue of social participation, maintaining a poetic autonomy of naturalistic images and their juxtaposition to human affairs.

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Film Title: Obsolescence

Director: Andrea Cristini

Sinossi

Three ghosts, representing three different generations, keep a portrait of themselves as the unique sign left of their own identity after death. Two of the ghosts have an analog portrait (a black and white photography and a painting), while the third one has a digital portrait contained within a computer. Soon they will experience the obsolescence of technology, which will challenge the preservation of memories and data through time.

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Film Title: Mission Accomplished

Director: Claus Martin

Sinossi

Two gangsters have completed their job. Now they are waiting for their boss. Everything seems fine. But suddenly the corpse is gone…

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