A ray of light that pierces the darkness: it is the image chosen for theEleventh edition of Visions from the worldthe international documentary festival that starts in Milan from today 11 September to 14 September (plan here). It is the declared goal of this year’s theme, “One more step”: do not remain motionless in the middle of the storm, but continue to investigate reality with a critical, new, illuminating look. That it is to retrace a painful and inexplicable event of the past to understand the present, or turn to the future that awaits us; that are told by community that survive or individual stories of people who invite us in their daily lives. Every day you choose on what to concentrate: documentary cinema invites us to look at the margins, to move the horizon a little later.
The 37 films selected, between Italian and international titles, therefore directly face the transformations that the planet is going through: that it is the instability of democracy, climate change, but also of social justice and technology. The projections will be held between the Litta Theater and the Milano Cineteca Milano Arlecchinowhile the National Museum Science and Technology Leonardo Da Vinci He collaborated for the Vision VR section, dedicated to virtual reality. Saturday 13 September at the Litta Theater the guest of honor, the director and producer Luca Luciniwill talk about the dialogue, more and closer, between cinema and reality.
In fact, documentary cinema is “an art form, civil act and a tool for knowledge”, as explained by the creator Francesco Bizzarri, in a historical period in which “Listening to the truth is already an act of resistance». “In an era in which artificial intelligence promises to replicate all our cognitive function is provocative – but fundamental – talking about real intelligence: that which arises from sensitivity, imagination, empathy, the ability to get excited”, adds Maurizio Nichetti, artistic director.
The movies
The Festival opens with the world preview of **Luca: Seeing Red **Of Manish Pandey And Christopher M. Armstrongthe ascent of Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, as a young man passionate up to the top of the car.
The competitive section ranges geographically and over time: from Vietnam to America with Child of Dust Of Weronika mliczewskain search of the origins for those forgotten children born from American soldiers and Vietnamese women, up to Bosnia, where in The Srebrenica Tape Of Chiara Sambuchi Another journey of discovery takes away, that of a daughter on the trail of the father, killed in Srebrenica in July 1995, led by a videotape.
The Last Republican Of Steve Pink Instead he tells those who decide to oppose a power that does not share: Adam Kinzinger, openly republican deputy against Donald Trump after the assault on the Capitol of January 6, 2021.
Out of competition contemporary art faces the climatic crisis in Climate Art: from Protest to Utopia Of Matias frickthanks to the work of artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Sebastião Salgado and Agnes Dennes, while **100 of these years ** by Michela Andreozzi, Massimiliano Bruno, Claudia Gerini, Edoardo Leo, Francesca Mazzoleni, Rocco Papaleo and Sydney Sibilia, presented at the Rome Film Festival celebrates the centenary of the Istituto Luce.
A story that had already moved the world, told with archive materials and animations is **Lost in the Jungle **Of Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin And Juan Camilo Cruz: four indigenous children, between 13 and one year, survive alone for 40 days in the Colombian Amazonian forest after a plane crash. They lost their mother and resist a hostile environment thanks to the ancestral knowledge of the Hutato community.
Among the courts, Voices of Humanity Of Kai Sehr It collects the testimonies of those who day after day try to maintain humanity in the most painful contexts, from Gaza to Sudan, to Ukraine. These are the stories of humanitarian operators, and the impact that their work, when supported, can have.
In the Italian section, Thanks, good day Of Giuseppe Modafferi He follows Tanam, originally from Sri Lanka, who has lived in Palermo for thirty years, in Piazza Florio: for him the public space is a place to live in subverting expectations, entering into relationship with the company with irony. And joy takes its place on the stage with The last cabaret Of Eugenio Rigaccia journey between archive materials and interviews, from Claudio Bisio to Ale and Franz, from the late nineteenth -century chat to the stage of Zelig, retracing the art of laughing (and making people laugh).
Source: Vanity Fair
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