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

WASTE CUBED

The boys and girls of “Ne Basta Uno Lessinia” join forces and their “tongs and gloves” park for an environmental cleaning activity that will be good for the environment and the spirit. With them, the excursion participants will free paths and woods of plastic and waste. The contents of the collection will be placed in the Festival Piazza and transformed into a scenographic display, as an example and a warning. It is advisable to bring work gloves. As part of the “Novaera“ project.

ONE HOUR AS A CHEESEMAKER

This is the traditional workshop of the Monte Veronese DOP Cheese Consortium for children and adults, dedicated to the transformation of milk into cheese. Each participant will make, in their own workstation, a caciotta from fresh bovine milk, following the instructions of the expert cheesemaker. During the workshop, a fun simulation will be held to better understand the principles of cheesemaking. A tasting of Monte Veronese DOP cheeses will follow.

LUBO

Giorgio Diritti / 175 min / 2023 / Italy, Switzerland

Based on the novel Il seminatore (The Sower) by Mario Cavatore, the film tells the story of Lubo Moser, a Yenish street artist, who sees his life turned upside down when the Swiss authorities take away his children due to a policy of forced assimilation, while his wife dies in attempt to protect them. From that moment, Lubo sets off in search of his children, beginning a personal and family struggle against oppression.

IN THE MICROCOSM OF A PRISON, WALKING WITH “THE MOUNTAIN INSIDE”

Together with the MicroCosmo association, the Film Festival della Lessinia has been bringing the mountains “inside” the prison of Verona for thirteen years, allowing hundreds of inmates to engage with the themes and films of the Festival, thus symbolically traveling beyond those walls. Paola Tacchella (coordinator of the MicroCosmo projects), Giuseppe Saglio (writer and psychiatrist) and some people who participated in the project “The Mountain Inside” within the prison, talk about this journey in search of memories and new perspectives on life and oneself.

Carlo Marconi
POESIE DEL CAMMINARE

If you start reading the first poem slowly, you will feel immersed in exciting experiences and thoughts. You will find yourself savoring the second one, without realizing it. Because Poesie del camminare (Lapis, 2022) by Carlo Marconi manages to describe simple desires and daily sensations for those who need to confront others and sometimes themselves, and to be comforted. The book invites us to grasp every aspect of that adventure called life that awaits us just beyond the doorstep. The children who read the book declared it the winner of the Premio Letteratura per Ragazzi di Cento 2022, poetry section.

APERITIF WITH THE DIRECTORS

ONE HOUR AS A CHEESEMAKER

This is the traditional workshop of the Monte Veronese DOP Cheese Consortium for children and adults, dedicated to the transformation of milk into cheese. Each participant will make, in their own workstation, a caciotta from fresh bovine milk, following the instructions of the expert cheesemaker. During the workshop, a fun simulation will be held to better understand the principles of cheesemaking. A tasting of Monte Veronese DOP cheeses will follow.

IL CONFINE DI BRINA

THE BORDER OF FROST

Gabriele Donati / 58 min / 2023 / Italy

The testimonies tell the stories of courageous people who during the Second World War put their lives at risk to save others, such as the Friulian priest Don Pietro Cortiula who hosted a family on the run, the mountaineers Ettore Castiglioni and Adamello Collini who saved Jews and political dissidents, and Carabinieri Marshal Bruno Pilat who contributed to the escape of 218 Jews from Aprica.

CAMBIAMENTI IN QUOTA. MONTAGNA, LUOGO DI TRASFORMAZIONE

CHANGES AT HIGH ALTITUDE. MOUNTAINS, PLACES OF TRANSFORMATION

Alessandro Beltrame / 22 min / 2024 / Italy

Groups of girls and boys participate in rehabilitation and therapeutic projects by CAI, undertaking a trek in the mountains to re-educate themselves about the environment and manage their condition with physical activity and correct nutrition. Together, they learn to overcome personal limitations, creating a bond of mutual support and normalising open dialogue.

Paolo Rumiz
EUROPE: THE BETRAYAL OF THE MYTH

A tetralogy dedicated to Europe, from the journey from Finland to Ukraine (Trans Europa Express, 2012), to the traces of the disciples of Benedict of Nursia (Il filo infinito, 2019), to the song for a barbarous and soulless continent, forgetful of its origins and its name (Canto per Europa, 2021) and the ominous night of a Europe besieged by wars and governed by the wild powers of the economy (Verranno di notte. Lo spettro della barbarie in Europa, 2024). In conversation with Alessandro Anderloni, Paolo Rumiz talks about the continent that betrayed its founding myth.

ATIRKÜL IN THE LAND OF REAL MEN

Janyl Jusupjan / 65 min / 2023 / Czech Republic, France, Kyrgyzstan

In Kyrgyzstan, Buzkashi is an ancient sport practiced exclusively by men who compete on horseback to grab a goat carcass and carry it over the goal line. Atirkül, an enterprising woman with a strong sense of humor, inserts herself spontaneously into this completely male world, becoming the key figure for training the players.

GHIMILIANI SAKARTVELO

SMILING GEORGIA

Luka Beradze / 62 min / 2023 / Germany, Georgia

In 2012, Georgian President Misha promises accessible dental care to all during his election campaign. State doctors begin extracting decayed teeth, promising replacements. But after Misha loses the election, the program is abandoned. Smiling Georgia explores the consequences of this broken promise, offering a poignant glimpse into the lives of those affected.

FRONDS

A meeting with the six artists included in the Fronds exhibition, the second chapter of the “Roots and Fronds” project supported by the Cariverona Foundation for an analysis and a shared proposal on the past, present and future of Lessinia, suggested by the photographs of Maurizio Marcato, Flavio Pèttene and Alberto Saddi, the audiovisual installation by Giovanni Montagnana, and the sound installation by Annachiara Fasoli and Giacomo Ceschi.

HIMMELSFEUER

TOMORROW, THE BURNING HEAVENS

Max Bloching / 22 min / 2024 / Germany

Between 1560 and 1700, due to a rare meteorological phenomenon that caused the sky to "catch fire," the Swiss and German Alps experienced a small ice age. The mountain people then feared the Apocalypse. The images of snowless ski slopes and abandoned artificial snow cannons suggest another climate apocalypse, the one the mountains are experiencing today.

LA HOJARASCA

THE UNDERGROWTH

Macu Machín / 72 min / 2024 / Spain

Carmen, Else and Maura are three sisters from the Canary Islands who meet after twenty years to divide up their inheritance of land at the foot of a volcano. Immersed in an atmosphere of magical and meditative lyricism, they speak to each other delicately, until they have to face emotional tensions and forgotten memories that will destabilise the precarious balance of their emotions.

NIGHT JOURNEY TO THE MUSEUM

In the spaces of the renovated “Luxino” Ethnographic Museum of Bosco Chiesanuova, the night comes alive with stories and tales and a special treasure hunt on the theme of water to learn how the inhabitants of Lessinia collected rainwater and stored it for their daily activities. The next morning, participants can continue this discovery by taking part in the hike, “The Water Walk.”

THE MATT PROJECT

Founded in Verona by drummer Matteo Breoni and singer and guitarist Carlo Poddighe, joined by singer and multi-instrumentalist Jury Magliolo, The Matt Project is a consolidated reality on the Italian soul, funk and rock scene. They have performed in New York, where they also produced two records under the supervision of Steve Greenwell and played in the legendary club, The Bitter End. Their latest record productions are Silver Linings (2017) and the recent Overnight: a groove and retro-futurist journey, from the 1980s to the present day, aboard a DeLorean or, if you prefer, a white Ferrari, Miami Vice style.