Atrium
| 18h30 : | Qui vit encore |
| (20h23) : | Six portraits néoréalistes |
Night falls for the last time on this Week, while at the centre of the atrium, two seasoned veterans wait, Socratic friends who have spent their lives accomplishing much with very little. The journey ends, curiosity satisfied, and treasures shared, but why do the two filmmakers still gaze with such discernment out to sea? Two films about displaced people, about the violence of dispossession. And, finally, about the role that cinema can still play, or not, in such a world.
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Nicolas Wadimoff
Documentary director Nicolas Wadimoff follows a group of Palestinian exiles from Gaza to South Africa, where they plan a play based on their experience of genocide, silently observing their preparatory workshops. This becomes a prime stage to tell their stories through lengthy interviews, providing a patient and direct account that aims to restore the unity, integrity and breadth of their testimonies. An essential film, addressing the issue of remembrance and examining the economy of survival in an occupied land and a world in denial.
Festivals: Giornate degli Autori 2025
Six portraits néoréalistes
Robert Morin
Robert Morin's camera roams through Rome, a phantom crossing borders, observing six individuals who migrated to the city from Africa. At night, television screens play Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves; by day, news broadcasts, comedians, and onlookers watch with an almost Orwellian detachment as human life struggles forward in its quest for dignity. Morin continues his numerology of the world in a film that draws on the history of cinema to confront a reality riddled with meaningless screens. A finale that shatters the mirror. And stitches it back together.