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

A frozen blue sky silently hangs over a planet of liquid helium, a vast world full of life and sentient creatures. From the dying horizon of the Andromeda galaxy, the aliens left that planet and departed to land on Earth. In search of a new beauty, as the alien narrator recounts, they failed by replicating human errors on the earth's surface. Now man is about to embark on a specular exploration, in search of new worlds in which to survive. The Wild Blue Yonder, by Werner Herzog, is a cinematic creature that eludes every definition: overturning the perspective of documentary images and Nasa films, the director composes a visual and sound symphony that crosses science fiction to speak to a dying planet, to a sedentary humanity, forgetful of every poem, which dreams of opening shopping centres on other planets and abandoning the Earth forever. Brad Dourif, a solitary alien who contemplates the ruins of the non-places he erected, warns humanity of the involution subject to our desire to conquer every horizon, every peak, every form of life.

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  Werner Herzog

  A director, screenwriter, producer, and documentary maker, he is considered one of the most important exponents of New German Cinema. He has also written books and directed operas. Signs of Life (1968) won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) is among his best-known films. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) was awarded at the Cannes Film Festival. This was followed by Nosferatu the Vampyre (1978) and Woyzeck (1979). Fitzcarraldo (1982) won the award for best director at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2010 he was president of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival.