Archives: Film

(Satoshi Kon, l’illusioniste) by Pascal-Alex Vincent, France, 2021, 81′

Original version with Italian subtitles

Presented by the director Pascal-Alex Vincent

This documentary is about one of the most important animators of the contemporary scene, who unfortunately died prematurely. The film looks back on his art with Darren Aronofsky, Marc Caro, Mamoru Oshii, Masayuki Murai, Mamoru Hosoda and many others.

(Tito e os Pàssaros) by Gabriel Bitar, André Catoto, Gustavo Steinberg, Brazil, 2018, 73′

Original version with Italian subtitles

Tito loves to help Rufus, his scientist dad. When Rufus’ latest invention, a machine that can understand birds, begins to crackle madly, Tito is injured. Years later, people get sick and the epidemic begins to spread. The cause, Tito realises, is fear.

Third selection (about 60′)

Ten, Twenty, Thirty, Forty, Fifty Miles a Day by Mathieu Georis, France, 2020;

The Fourth Wall by Mahboobeh Kalaee, Iran, 2021;

Mooozart by Piero Tonin, Italy, 2021;

What Resonates in Silence by Marine Blin, France, 2020;

Demi’s Panic by Bill Plympton, USA, 2021;

Ecorce by Samuel Patthey and Silvain Monney, France, 2020;

(Vanamehe film) by Mikk Mägi and Oskar Lehemaa, Estonia, 2019, 88′

Original version with Italian subtitles

Politically incorrect, irreverent and adult, the film, made in stop-motion, tells the story of three city kids forced to spend the summer with their grandfather, the current milkman of the town where decades earlier a catastrophe took place at the dairy: the udders of a cow who was no longer “milked” exploded, as if they were a real atomic bomb.

(Bob Cuspe – Nós Não Gostamos de Gente) by Cesar Cabral, Brazil, 2021, 90′

Original version with Italian subtitles

In this film, mixing animation with stop-motion is at the service of the crazy story of an old punk who tries to escape from an apocalyptic desert that, in reality, is a purgatory in the mind of its creator, a cartoonist in creative crisis.

by Samuele Sestieri, Italy, 2021, 100′

Presented by the director Samuele Sestieri and actress Carlotta Velda Mei

A young woman wakes up naked on a deserted beach. Wandering without memory, she gets to know the present and the past through objects to which she is able to give energy again.

by Yee Chih-yen, Taiwan, 2020, 91′

Original version with Italian subtitles

Leaf, a rebellious teenager aged sixteen, runs away from home and mysteriously finds himself in a strange place, the “City of Lost Things”. There he meets Baggy, a plastic bag who is thirty years old….

by Arnold Leibovit, USA, 1987, 79′.

Original version with Italian subtitles

“Tribute to George Pal”

The film is based on characters created by George Pal and presents a selection of his famous puppetoons, shorts created in the 1930s and 1940s: from Gumby to Pokey, not to forget the famous Arnie the Dinosaur.