LAMB – Icelandic thriller. Un Certain Regard Cannes 2021

A childless couple in rural Iceland make an alarming discovery one day in their sheep barn. They soon face the consequences of defying the will of nature, in this dark and atmospheric folktale, the striking debut feature from director Valdimar Jóhannsson. Darkly imaginative and brought to life by a pair of striking central performances, Lamb shears expectations with its singularly wooly chills, blending humor, dread, and sorrow into one picture, and providing commentary on the human journey. It’s a unique film experience that is equal parts peculiar and absorbing.

AFTER LOVE Best Leading Actress 75th BAFTA

Flee tells the story of Amin Nawabi as he grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband. Recounted mostly through animation to director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, he tells for the first time the story of his extraordinary journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan.

AFTER LOVE Best Leading Actress 75th BAFTA

A psychological thriller on the shoulders of an extraordinary performer like Joanna Scanlan. Mary Hussain converted to Islam when she married Ahmed, she is now in her 60s and they live peacefully together in the coastal town of Dover, England.
After his sudden death, she will discover that Ahmed had a secret life in Calais, across the Channel, a few miles away from their home. A revelation that will push her to investigate to find out more about that second family that her husband has always kept hidden from her.

VESUVIO – O COME HANNO IMPARATO A VIVERE IN MEZZO AI VULCANI

The metropolitan area of Naples is one of the most densely populated on the planet and lies between Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei, two of the most dangerous active volcanoes in the world. Over a million people live in the so-called red zone, ready to be evacuated at the first sign of an eruption. Perhaps. The film relates the stories of those who live there on this “time bomb” and who, despite the danger, are linked to this land of fire, to the traditions and superstitions on the black mountain, Vesuvius, which overlooks the city, as if was the true and only master.

OTRFF8 >> diario on the road di uno spettatore speciale

Dal nostro inviato speciale, della redazione di schermaglie.it, sulla sua partecipazione all’ottava edizione di On the Road Film Festival, riceviamo e volentieri pubblichiamo “un pezzo in italiano strano a volte rimbalzante”, o uno “zibaldomonstruo” per definizione stessa dell’autore.
Grazie infinite a Luca e a tutto il pubblico che ha seguito con passione le giornate del festival.

OTRFF8 >> Palmarès 2022

“Koi” by Lorenzo Squarcia from the Jumping Flea collective and “Too Big Drawing” by Genadzi Buto respectively win the Jury Prize for Best Film and Best Short Film at ON THE ROAD FILM FESTIVAL 8, travel and frontier cinema.
Eva Voudrait by Liza Diaz and the shorts Too Big Drawing and The Van (ex-aequo) win the Audience Award.
Below is a list of all the prizes and special mentions of the sections in the 2022 competition.
The awards ceremony was held on Sunday 10 April 2022 at the Cinema Detour in Rome, in the presence of the Juries (presidents Gabriele Anaclerio and Silvia Stucky) and the public. Thanks to all and to all those who participated with passion and interest.

AL VIA ON THE ROAD FILM FESTIVAL 8

Giunto alla XXI edizione, il corso che hai sempre desiderato. Una docente professionista che metterà a disposizione tutte le sue conoscenze e il suo sapere. Un corso teorico-pratico dove non perderai neanche una lezione perché la potrai recuperare in privato. Patrizia Copponi è fotoreporter dal 1980. Ha collaborato con i maggiori settimanali, quotidiani e mensili italiani ed esteri. Si occupa da decenni dell’Organizzazione di attività culturali sulla comunicazione visiva e dell’insegnamento della Fotografia. Insegna al Detour dal 2012 con dedizione e passione.

On The Road Film Festival 8

The On the Road Film Festival is an independent festival of international significance which follows an original path inspired by travel, geographical wandering, making a track across wild lands and city landscapes. The cue for this the eighth season is the principal based on the ‘Path of Least Resistance’, a concept based on and borrowed from the second law of thermodynamics by which, water, for example, in its never-ending journey, always searches for the way which poses the least possible resistance.
A principle which grows into the Toaist philosophy of Wu wei, the non-action or better the understanding of when to act and when not to do so, when there is a prospect of harmony, equilibrium, economy and concentration of the forces.
A sober reminder to never put out the flame of Reason, while we turn to breathe in the warring fetid breathe at the heart of Europe.

VAMPYR. The horror classic by Carl Theodor Dreyer in a restored version

Presentazione del libro La paralisi dell’ONU, il coagularsi del blocco dei BRICS, la metamorfosi della politica estera dell’Unione Europea, la propagazione dello Stato Islamico in Africa, l’emergenza migratoria nel Mediterraneo, la proiezione meridionale di Turchia e Russia: tutte queste dinamiche sono strettamente connesse alla crisi che si protrae in Libia dal 2011. Nel frattempo il paese è diventato un laboratorio per la sperimentazione – spesso fallimentare – di diverse modalità di intervento internazionale e crisis management: la hybris liberale dell’egemonia occidentale si è ridimensionata alle esigenze dell’approccio light americano e del ritiro dal quadrante mediorientale; la stabilizzazione del vicinato dell’Unione Europea si è concentrata sulla lotta al terrorismo e alla migrazione irregolare, a scapito della riforma di un settore della sicurezza corrotto da interessi criminali e spinte centrifughe; e la competizione geopolitica nell’odierno contesto multipolare ha approfondito le faglie della politica libica, proiettandole su scala internazionale. Con lucidità e rigore, il libro indaga le rifrazioni interne e internazionali di una crisi che rappresenta non solo una sfida all’ordine costituito, ma anche, potenzialmente, una sfida costituente.

AFTER LOVE Miglior Attrice 75th BAFTA

A psychological thriller on the shoulders of an extraordinary performer like Joanna Scanlan. Mary Hussain converted to Islam when she married Ahmed, she is now in her 60s and they live peacefully together in the coastal town of Dover, England.
After her sudden death, she will discover that Ahmed had a secret life in Calais, across the Channel, a few miles away from their home. A revelation that will push her to investigate to find out more about that second family that her husband has always kept hidden from her.