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STIGMA – dir. Dali Mansour

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Original Film Title: STIGMA

Director’s Name: Dali Mansour

Writer’s Name: Dali Mansour

Producer: Aly Mansour

Country of Origin: Tunisia

Country of Filming: Tunisia

Language: Arabic

Runtime: 29 minutes 55 seconds

Film Description:

During the Covid-19 lockdown, “Stigma” explores the emotional impact on Bochra, a young woman living alone in France. Through webcam exchanges with her parents in Tunisia, Bochra struggles with painful memories and a dark past. Confronted with solitude in her Parisian apartment, she faces shadows of her past, gradually revealing a deeply buried trauma. The film delves into themes of resilience, the importance of family bonds, and the quest for self in an isolated world, leading to a poignant revelation.

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BODY&SOUND – image meets music – dir. Alberto Nacci

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Original Film Title: BODY&SOUND – image meets music

Director’s Name: Alberto Nacci

Writer’s Name: Alberto Nacci

Producer: Alberto Nacci

Country of Origin: Italy

Country of Filming: Italy

Language: Italian

Runtime: 47 minutes 50 seconds

Film Description:

A documentary on the relationships between musicians and their musical instruments.
The director introduces six musical short films from the Body&Sound Series, taking the audience behind the scenes of the production of a film in which every detail is significant:
the light, the dynamics, the sound (which constitutes the guiding element of all Alberto Nacci’s works) and great care for the quality of the shots in which each scene is studied with absolute attention to the best lighting modes for musicians and musical instruments. Every frame is a work of art!!

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Hercules Recycled 2.0 – dir. Don Moriarty, Greg Alt

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Original Film Title: Hercules Recycled 2.0

Director’s Name: Don Moriarty, Greg Alt

Writer’s Name: Don Moriarty, Greg Alt, David Trottier

Producer: Don Moriarty

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: India

Language: Assamese

Runtime: 6 minutes 59 seconds

Film Description:

The legendary story of Koina Konda Xill is about six hundred years old with rich ancient custom and tradition prevailing in the Tiwa society of Assam, India till date. The women empowerment was very significant in Boghora Kingdom. Besides household works girls and women were taught archery and the skill of wielding sword for the sake of their motherland. While the king of Mayong was very compassionate on wild animals residing in the nearby Pobitora forest, an internationally famed Pobitora wildlife sanctuary at present. Lord Ananta Gosai Exhibition for the first time has been organized by the Boghora King where all the kings of neighboring Kingdom along with their family have been invited. During the festival the princess of Boghora and the Prince of Myong met and fell in love with each other. Both the parents of Prince and Princess agreed to their willingness and the wedding ceremony was held auspiciously. The King and Queen of Boghora bade goodbye to their daughter. On their way to Mayong the wedding party met with a natural disaster . A rock has fallen on Bride Princess’s body and gradually crushed her to death . The Prince has fallen under the hill. Finally, all the members of Wedding Party were killed, the bride – groom could not start their new life. Since that horrible incident the rocks of Boghora Hill started to produce the sound of traditional musical instruments played by Tiwa Community at the time of marriage and also some rocks produce painful cry of the Bride Princess. Thus the Bride Crying Rock of Boghora Hill is historically important bearing a true and painful story, has become the heritage site of Morigaon District of Assam, india.

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One Furnace Three Stones – dir. Irham Acho Bahtiar

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Original Film Title: Satu Tungku Tiga Batu

Director’s Name: Irham Acho Bahtiar

Writer’s Name: Yuki

Producer: Pieter Ell, Irham Acho Bahtiar

Country of Origin: Indonesia

Country of Filming: Indonesia

Language: Indonesian

Runtime: 1 hour 22 minutes 53 seconds

Film Description:

Due to his illness, Abas asked his son, Idris, to continue the construction of the old church he was working on. Idris agreed to his father’s request even though he had to sacrifice his Masters scholarship. Hafsa made the same tough choice as Idris, feeling useless as the eldest child, she decided to leave Fakfak City and migrate to Jakarta to work there, leaving behind her parents and younger sister, Ludia. With tears and emotion, Hafsa left Fakfak, a city on the island of West Papua that has a philosophy of one stove three stones, a philosophy of very high tolerance inherent in the daily lives of Fakfak residents, especially religious tolerance, as happened to Mrs. Maria who lived under the same roof with a Javanese nurse named Ayu, a relationship created by the sad story of her daughter Yakomina.

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Money Game – dir. Julian Lowenthal

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Original Film Title: Money Game

Director’s Name: Julian Lowenthal

Writer’s Name: Julian Lowenthal, Brian Cheek, Daniel Washington

Producer: Julian Lowenthal, Russ Martin, Paul Speziale, Daniel Washington, Tim Harms

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 31 minutes 38 seconds

Film Description:

Set during the Covid-19 pandemic: James, a young widowed father of two, struggles to navigate a broken financial system while fighting to give his daughters the life his late wife promised them.

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Need – dir. Leon Neumüller

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Original Film Title: Need

Director’s Name: Leon Neumüller

Writer’s Name: Leon Neumüller, Aimée Porth

Producer: Kaushik Vempati, Philipp Castiglioni, Miroslav Stanev

Country of Origin: Germany

Country of Filming: Germany

Language: German

Runtime: 23 minutes 49 seconds

Film Description:

2042 – Pictures of destroyed landscapes characterize the daily news. In the last ten years, the death rate of trees has rapidly increased. A new technology is supposed to undo the damage caused to the environment as entering the local forest is suddenly strictly prohibited. Noelle, a 13-year-old girl, and her father suffer from the consequences of this exhausted world. In their apartment water is scarce and highly restricted by the government. Therefore, Noelle finds herself going into the forest to fill up canisters from the nearby water stream. When an unexpected tragedy threatens to tear the family apart, the forest is Noelle’s last retreat.

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Queen: Checkmate For The King – dir. Luca De Giorgi, Sergio Vespertino

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Original Film Title: Regina: Scacco al Re

Director’s Name: Luca De Giorgi, Sergio Vespertino

Writer’s Name: Luca De Giorgi, Sergio Vespertino, Dacia Maraini, Ennio Giganti, Rosalba Muratori

Producer: ASSOCIAZIONE ONLUS VITA, Luca De Giorgi

Country of Origin: Italy

Country of Filming: Italy

Language: Italian

Runtime: 1 hour 10 minutes 10 seconds

Film Description:

This documentary film expresses the will and commitment to sharing, through the story of emotions and experience, the context of the socio-cultural event ‘Queen: “Check the King”‘, and with it re-present the testimonies of the victims of gender violence and feminicide.
Especially that of Stefania, who asked that her experience be of help to other women who experience or have experienced similar domestic violence.
It is the desire to put one’s suffering at the service of others: a way to overcome it and prevent other people from experiencing similar pain.
The event we are describing, developed with the theatrical communication formula (let’s not just call it a theatrical show), took place in Palermo on 27 May 2023 by the associations Vita Onlus of Milan and MarcoSacchi of Palermo, with the collaboration of Ennio Giganti, for the organization and planning part; Sergio Vespertino for the theater planning and direction and with the personal contribution of Dacia Maraini.
This film supports the commitment of all those who actively work against gender violence, with the aim of spreading the cultural, cognitive aspects and awareness of what still happens around us, so that everyone is no longer an extra in life of others, but can become a protagonist and actor by giving a concrete hand in helping victims of gender violence and helping to stop this social plague.
All this is presented with the concreteness of life, without pretending not to know or see. To address the issue responsibly, it is necessary to assume one’s share of objective responsibility, because everyone is still part of the Educating Community, which has the task of preventing, combating and reporting, without silence, shame or fear.
With the courage to do and testify; with strength to ask for help and help; with the commitment to promote a healthy sentimental and civil education, today we take the step, without shame, to report and ask for help.
Let’s keep alive the desire and hope that all this can soon end.

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People & Wolves – dir. Rachel Tilseth

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Original Film Title: People & Wolves

Director’s Name: Rachel Tilseth

Writer’s Name: Rachel Tilseth

Producer: Rachel Tilseth

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 32 minutes 51 seconds

Film Description:

For centuries, the Ojibwe have lived alongside their brother Ma’iingan, who we know in English to be the wolf. In February 2021, a Brutal assault, a hunt on their wolf relative, stirs emotion and grief for Ma’iingan as they know what happens to him will happen to them.

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Hombre De La Casa – dir. Marco Sandoval

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Original Film Title: Hombre De La Casa

Director’s Name: Marco Sandoval

Writer’s Name: Marco Sandoval

Producer: Marco Sandoval

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English, Spanish

Runtime: 13 minutes 9 seconds

Film Description:

A brother and his half sister reunite and recall the night his father left his family.