30. Film Festival della Lessinia
Bosco Chiesanuova (Italia)
23 August - 1 September 2024

A young woman sucks and spits the blood from the wounds of a huge white she-wolf; when she notices the  a man watching, she flees into the forest. It is the first meeting between Mononoke, the wolf girl and the young prince Ashitaka. Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime, 1997) is the story of the journey of a boy, Prince of the Emishi, in search of a lost equilibrium. After saving his village from the fury of a wild boar turned into a demon by the madness of man, Ashitaka is struck by a curse that marks the flesh, dooming him to die. So he decides to leave, to find a meaning in the rage without a name that has invested his people. The journey will bring him to the centre of a conflict between two worlds, two horizons, two dimensions of man. One is savage, enclosed in the heart of the mountains crossed by the footsteps of The One who walks in the night, the god-deer Shishigami; the other is burning, fiery and magmatic: Tataraba, the Iron City led by Madame Eboshi.

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  Hayao Miyazaki

  Hayao Miyazaki is one of the most influential animators in the history of cinema. Fifty years of a career inextricably linked to Studio Ghibli, which he founded together with his colleague Takahata in 1985, have produced a long series of masterpieces, among others Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Porco Rosso, The Enchanted City, and Ponyo on the Cliff, in addition to TV series and short films.