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

AND WHAT CHARACTER ARE YOU?

What is hidden behind a story? What can you create with imagination? And with your body, hands and voice? Annachiara Zanoli guides the participants in theater techniques to enact the fairy tales of traditional storytelling (filò) in Lessinia. We will find out who the fade are, understand if orcs are really scary, and if angels can come down from heaven. During the workshop, the children will build their own puppet with recycled materials to stage their own drama and to see how a fantastic world can be built, from nothing.

BREEDING GOOD BACTERIA

Bacteria, the good ones, can be eaten to rebalance the immune defenses, used to leaven bread and are useful in cleaning the house, as well as for fertilizing the garden. This is a mini course on the breeding and conservation of bacteria through the fermentation technique which will be addressed in both its theoretical and practical aspects. Each participant will produce their own bacteria using wild herbs and fruits present in Lessinia under the guidance of Paolo Oggiano, chef and expert in Thai Buddhist fermentation.

GLENN, THE GREAT NATURE LOVER

Anna Erlandsson / 5 min / 2023 / Norway, Sweden

A couple of young nature lovers fall in love during an excursion and decide to build their own love nest in a bucolic clearing where an elderly farmer used to live. So they demolished the old wooden house to build a majestic villa with swimming pool. But will they really be willing to coexist with nature and its inhabitants?

PUFFLING

Jessica Bishopp / 20 min / 2023 / Iceland, United Kingdom

Birta and Selma live on a small island a few kilometres off the Icelandic coast, in Vestmannaeyjar. When puffins leave the nest, they often get lost in the village, confused by the many lights. Together with other young people, the set out to find the little chicks and bring them back to the cliff, where they will make their first flight.

THE SECRET OF TIME

Tzu Hsiang Chang, Wei Dai / 20 min / 2023 / Italian premiere / Taiwan

Yan An lives with his grandmother in the mountains of Taiwan. When his aging grandmother has to be treated in the hospital, Yan An's world turns upside down: he is entrusted to an adoptive family and shortly afterwards his father arrives him to tell him that his grandmother, sadly, has passed away. For the boy, adapting to the changing situation and saying goodbye to the mountains of his childhood will not be easy.

A SUMMER'S END POEM

Lam  Can-zhao / 15 min / 2024 / China, Malaysia, Switzerland

The day before starting middle school, a country boy decides to go to the city to get a trendy haircut, so as to impress his new classmates. He takes all his savings and sets off for the nearest shopping mall, only to discover that, sometimes, expectations are better than the outcome.

TO BIRD OR NOT TO BIRD

Martín Romero / 9 min / 2023 / Italian premiere / Spain

For some birds forced to live on the margins of human society, what has remained of their existence? The abundance of food in the garbage has made them plump and soft; the sounds of traffic and the rhythms of human society stun them. In this distorted reality, a cuckoo-clock bird dreams of escape with a flock of migratory birds.