2021 Archivi - Samarcanda Film

Se fate i bravi

“Se fate i bravi” is a diary of the days between 19 and 21 July 2001 in Genoa. It was the days of a summit between the eight most powerful states on Earth. A few hundred people gathered to decide the fate of the planet and hundreds of thousands of people went to Genoa to peacefully contest that predatory and unjust development model, and propose another. That dream and that protest were met with the most serious suspension of democratic rights in the West since the Second World War, as Amnesty International defined it. This is what happened to the authors and witnesses of the film, who twenty years later felt the need to tell their story. Il film è tutto un lungo racconto, un diario momento per momento, svolto vent’anni dopo da Evandro Fornasier.

As of November 8, 2022, the film has been distributed in 100 theaters throughout Italy. It was selected by FICE (Italian Federation of Arthouse Cinema) in the Racconti Italiani review. “Se fate i bravi” was then selected by Arci in the cinema circuit. Finally, it was included in the AstraDoc review of Naples in the section “Journeys in the cinema of reality”.

“Se fate i bravi” is sponsored by Amnesty International – Italy

Paolo Cognetti. Sogni di Grande Nord

The writer Paolo Cognetti, winner of the 2017 Strega Prize for “Le Otto Montagne” with over 1,000,000 copies sold in over 39 countries (450,000 in Italy alone), travels in the footsteps of Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, H.D. Thoreau, Jack London and Chris McCandless, on a literary and exciting journey from the Alps to Alaska, up to the legendary Magic Bus. Man and nature intertwine in a film with a powerful visual impact. A path traced by the travel experience and the words of the Italian writer, accompanied by his friend Nicola Magrin, traveler and illustrator, but above all by the words of some of the great masters of American Literature who accompany the path, in search of a new existential frontier for man and for his coexistence with the environment that surrounds us.

“Paolo Cognetti. Dreams of the Great North” ranked third at the box office, with a gross of 103,000 euros. The film was also distributed in Switzerland and Holland

Cicliste per caso – Grizzly Tour

The documentary tells the story of two women’s bike journey across the United States, from Canada to Mexico along the Great Divide. A unique adventure through the most remote areas of the Rocky Mountains, amidst unspoiled nature and wild animals. An epic undertaking that took them 4,000 km and climbed 60,000 meters and that, day after day, forced them to measure themselves against their own limits, against their own strength and fragility, which put their bond to the test. Because every journey is ultimately a love story.

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