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

IL VENTO FA IL SUO GIRO

THE WIND BLOWS ROUND

Giorgio Diritti / 110 min / 2005 / Italy

Philippe, a French shepherd, moves with his family to a remote village in the Maira Valley. However, its agricultural activities and the rigid individualism that characterises it cause tensions among the inhabitants, leading to conflicts that reveal the dynamics of a closed community resistant to change. The film, based on a tue story, explores themes of integration, mistrust, and isolation.

EGOR!

Maria Afonina / 3 min / 2023 / Italian premiere / Russian Federation

In a small world full of snow, Egor's dad puts him on the sleigh to take him to kindergarten. While he distracts himself with his cell phone, he loses sight of his little son and, very agitated, goes back to look for him. Having to deal with the teasing of a crow, Egor finds himself living his first adventure all alone.

O CONTO DA RAPOSA

FOXTALE

Alexandra Allen / 6 min / 2022 / Portugal

A little fox wanders, hungry,  around the woods. Her stomach rumbles, but she can't get even a bite to eat. She finally spots a tree, on which there is only one red and juicy apple left. How hungry she is! It is not easy to reach the delicious morsel, but in the end, once again, there is strength in unity!

RICE BALL RICE

ONIGIRI

Ikuo Kato / 2 min / 2023 / Italian premiere / Japan

Do you know how a grain of rice is born before arriving on your plate, perhaps in the form of a delicious onigiri? This film starts among the traditional rice fields of Asia and takes us all the way to the kitchen. The marked sound that accompanies the images is created by the thappu or parai, a traditional southern-Indian drum.

THE BRIDGE

Kim Sohyun / 5 min / 2023 / Korea, Republic of

A large stone in the mountains has only one job: to fit between two spurs of rock to act as a bridge for the sheep. It is satisfied with its task, but the beavers think they can do better and build a wooden bridge. Supplanted, the big stone will have to invent something to do to pass the days.

LE MONDE

THE WORLD

Baptiste Ratajski / 3 min / 2023 / Italian premiere / France

A little passerine approaches a child and, in a flutter of wings, the two set off to explore the world around them. So many wonders are hidden in the meadow, among flowers, insects and fantastic colours! This animation, inspired by a poem by Frédéric Kiesel, accompanies us to rediscover the harmony and poetry of small things.

QUÈ LI PASSA AL CEL?

WHAT'S UP WITH THE SKY?

Irene Iborra / 10 min / 2022 / Spain

Like every morning, the sun wakes up and greets the farmer who goes out to take care of his plants ... but this morning is different. The nearby city is in turmoil: a bulldozer clears the forest and a factory pollutes the air with its noxious fumes. The changes that man brings to the environment will soon end up backfiring on him, until he himself understands that a more respectful relationship with the planet is necessary.

TOURNESOL

SUNFLOWER

Natalia Chernysheva / 4 min / 2023 / France, Russian Federation

The sun rises, and like little soldiers all the sunflowers wake up and start doing gymnastics. All of them, that is, except a night-owl sunflower, who sleeps soundly after a night spent admiring the stars. It seems that he is destined to remain the only one out of the pack, but sometimes being a non-conformist is the right path.

KĀJĀM GAISĀ

UPSIDE DOWN

Dace Rīdūze / 12 min / 2023 / Italian premiere / Latvia

A young bat wakes up by mistake before the end of hibernation. He comes out of his cave where everything is dark and upside down and discovers, with surprise, the wonders of the world in light and heat. While having fun exploring, he meets and befriends his cousin the mouse and discovers that he lives during the day and that in his burrow, things are not upside down--how strange!

SIEBENSCHLÄFER

DORMOUSE

Julia Ocker / 4 min / 2023 / Italian premiere / Germany

The dormouse wakes up from its hibernation on its birthday, with a great desire to celebrate! In the next den, the bear is preparing it a nice birthday cake, but is a little late and the dormouse, always sleepy, goes back to sleep. When the bear finally arrives, the dormouse has fallen back into a deep sleep and there is no way to wake it up. The bear just has to wait, very patiently.

DE KAMELEON

THE CHAMELEON

Pim ter Braak / 2 min / 2022 / Netherlands

The life of a chameleon in the forest is tough: not a moment passes without a new threat appearing. Thanks to his strong ability to camouflage, the little pink chameleon will do his best to escape danger, but will it be enough?

L'ULTIMO ASINO

THE LAST DONKEY

Angelo Urbano / 20 min / 2023 / Italy

Every day, in the Calabrian mountains, Peppe Marano traveled from the village to his house in the woods with a donkey, the last one left in his community. Under the weight of the years and heavy loads, the old farmer and his donkey accompany us into an archaic and rural world that now seems to have disappeared, but which lives again in the memory and gestures of Peppe and his inseparable companion.

CONTADINI DI CONFINE. GRENZBAUERN

BORDER FARMERS

Michele Trentini / 72 min / 2024 / Italy

In some towns in the Val di Non and Val di Fiemme, near the border between the provinces of Trento and Bolzano, farmers and breeders from both sides of the border give life to an experience of collaboration whose socio-cultural meanings go beyond regional borders, which enhances the landscape, and is a source of pride for the communities to which they belong.

SUZANNE JOUR APRÈS JOUR

SUZANNE FROM DAY TO DAY

Stéphane Manchematin, Serge Steyer / 88 min / 2023 / Italian premiere / France

"We'll see!" Suzanne takes life one day at a time. She lives alone on the edge of a forest in the French Vosges in her family home where she was born in 1930, without water or electricity,  using the old methods invented by her grandparents. The directors capture every facet of her existence over the four seasons, never forgetting her infectious laugh.