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

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.

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.

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.

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.