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

URBAN ECO-HUNTING

A hunt for an unusual treasure among the streets and piazzas of the center of Bosco Chiesanuova with girls and boys engaged in a series of tests, riddles and small challenges that will lead them to reflect not only on the importance of actively participating in caring for the environment and their community but also on how waste is disposed of and what are its recycling and reuse opportunities. Each of the teams will be accompanied and guided by volunteers from the CSV of Verona. We recommend that you bring a pair of work gloves with you. In collaboration with Consiglio di Bacino Verona Nord and part of the “Novaera” project.

MAKE YOUR OWN SOAP

Making soap at home means reclaiming ancient knowledge such as the production technique and knowledge of the properties of herbs, essential oils, flowers and their perfumes. Under the guidance of Giulia Signorini of La Ferraretta Bianca, participants will learn the basic notions necessary to self-produce, with the traditional cold method, a 100% natural and artisanal lavender soap. An eco-sustainable activity that will give everyone the opportunity to take home a bar of artisanal soap, already seasoned and ready to be used.

L'ARMATA BRANCALEONE

FOR LOVE AND GOLD

Mario Monicelli / 120 min / 1966 / Italy

A ramshackle company of mercenaries, led by the vainglorious Brancaleone da Norcia, faces a series of vicissitudes while crossing 11th century Italy on horseback. Monicelli's film is both an Italian comedy and a picaresque narrative, with an entirely invented macaronic language, and although set in the Middle Ages it continues to be an evergreen masterpiece.

WALKING ROUTES. FROM PREHISTORY TO THE PRESENT

Long-distance walking routes, from the most famous and popular such as that of Santiago to the many that are traveled today in various parts of the world, attract an ever-increasing number of people. Humanity has always walked, out of necessity, rather than for pleasure, faith or sport, on paths designed to be as easy and safe as possible. CAI Veneto has invited Antonio Guerreschi, Giuliano Cervi and Denis Perilli to discuss this, for an excursus that starts from the paths of prehistory and the Middle Ages to arrive at the CAI Sentiero Italia.

APERITIF WITH THE DIRECTORS

Learn about the day’s film programme and meet the filmmakers present at the festival. At the end of the meeting there will be a tasting of products from small producers, with non- alcoholic cocktails and wines from Lessinia wineries. Organized by GAS (Social Purchasing Group) Lessinia.

MÉTÉORES

METEORS

Agnès Patron, Morgane  Le Péchon / 4 min / 2023 / France

One night, a group of bright-eyed wild animals approaches a group of houses. Four boys, as if attracted by a mysterious call, wake up and together with the animals run into the forest towards a spectacular starry sky that seems to draw them in with a prodigious and enigmatic force, in a whirlwind of lights and colours.

PO TU STORONU

OUT THERE

Evgeniy  Golovin, Alexander Afonasyev / 13 min / 2024 / Italian premiere / Russian Federation

Pete is not a boy like the others. For him, going out in the morning and meeting the world out there is an adventure full of pitfalls and fears, like having to climb a treacherous mountain. At school, instead of following the lesson, he gets up and tries to protect a fly outside the window ... but no one understands him, every school rejects him, and his peers make fun of him. Luckily, however, in the midst of so much rejection, a special friend will understand his talents, seeing beyond his oddities.

EHA VARI

THE SHADOW OF DAWN

Olga Stalev / 15 min / 2024 / Estonia

A young woman with long red hair is walking in the woods when, unexpectedly, a young lumberjack declares his love for her. Her impulsive and contemptuous refusal unleashes in him a deep resentment that turns into a thirst for revenge. The girl, hunted, will have no other hope of salvation other than freeing her shadow with a spell.

MAGDA

Adela Kaczmarek / 9 min / 2022 / Italian premiere / Poland

Magda Grodzka-Gużkowska (1925-2014) was a Polish activist during the Second World War. From the recordings of her voice we discover that at just fourteen she joined the clandestine movement of opposition to the Nazi invasion and thanks to her skills as a skier, helped some soldiers reach the Slovakian border through the Tatra mountains, the highest peaks of the Carpathians, putting her own life at risk.

OSMÝ DEN

EIGHTH DAY

Petr Pylypčuk / 20 min / 2023 / Czech Republic

Members of a religious sect are camped at the edge of the forest. The families are preparing for the ritual in the lake the following day, but young Anna, now intolerant of the group's stringent rules, decides to move away to savour the taste of freedom for the first time.

Giuseppe Mendicino, Anna Lina Molteni, Giuseppe Sandrini
GIOVANNA ZANGRANDI: A VOICE OUT OF THE CHORUS

Giovanna Zangrandi (pseudonym of Alma Bevilacqua) was a partisan, journalist, writer, mountaineer, and manager of the Antelao refuge, an original voice of the twentieth-century cultural and mountaineering world. Three scholars trace her story and literary production: Anna Lina Molteni and Giuseppe Mendicino, respectively the author and writer of the preface for the book Lo specchio verde. I libri e le montagne di Giovanna Zangrandi (Edizioni Monte Rosa, 2023) and Giuseppe Sandrini (Università degli studi di Verona), editor of the book La mia montagna. Diari 1952- 1962 (Alba Pratalia, 2024).

LESSINIA THIRTY: THE FESTIVAL’S JOURNEY

The Film Festival della Lessinia celebrates its first thirty years with a special event that retraces its journey through images and testimonies, from the first edition in 1995, to the ten years in Cerro Veronese, to the return to Bosco Chiesanuova in 2007 and up until the present day. Some directors who are part of the Festival’s history will be guests on the stage of the Teatro Vittoria, in conversation with the artistic director Alessandro Anderloni and with the spectators. This will be an opportunity to reflect on the path traveled by the Festival and to contemplate its future.

LA NUIT BLANCHE

THE WHITE NIGHT

Audrey Delepoulle / 4 min / 2023 / France

In the village, breaking news reports a sudden drop in temperatures. Beth is a courageous arborist who, along with her colleagues, spends an exhausting night in the heart of the countryside, desperately trying to save the orchards from the destructive frost. As the ground turns white, hopes seem to fade.

NESSUN POSTO AL MONDO

NOWHERE IN THE WORLD

Vanina Lappa / 83 min / 2023 / Italy

On the Cervati massif, a destination for transhumances and processions, Antonio is a shepherd who speaks the language of his animals, the only ones with whom he seems to be able to truly communicate. His fellow villagers scold him: his dogs are without collars, but Antonio will never put collars on his dogs. Despite the worsening of conflicts, Antonio will not stop fighting to discover his place, finding in nature a promise of freedom.

ZIGANOFF - THE JAZZMER BAND

Recovering the links between klezmer music, jazz and gypsy manouche swing is the intent of Renato Morelli, who in 2009 founded the Ziganoff – Jazzmer Band composed of Michele Ometto (guitar), Fiorenzo Zeni (sax), Christian Stanchina (trumpet), Rossana Caldini (violin), and Gigi Grata (tuba). The ensemble investigates the contaminations of traditional Romanian, Polish, Russian, Hungarian and Balkan repertoires typical of early klezmer, combining them with gypsy jazz.

MIDNIGHT GOURMET DISH

With Silvano Furia, chef of Malga Moscarda.