OR DE VIE (Burkina Faso/Benin/Francia, 2023, 84′) Mercoledì 4 ottobre, ore 21.00, Cinema Massimo, Sala 3 Apertura Sezione Africa subsahariana Evento in collaborazione con il Centro Internazionale di Formazione – ITCILO Mercoledì 4 ottobre alle ore 21.00 al Cinema Massimo, apre la sezione sull’Africa subsahariana di Job Film Days 2023, con la proiezione del film Or de vie di Boubakar Sangaré (Burkina Faso-Benin-Francia, 2023). Il cineasta maliano filma la vita di adolescenti che lavorano ogni giorno nelle miniere d’oro, insalubri e prive delle minime protezioni, del sud del Burkina Faso, con rari momenti di svago. La serata è organizzata in collaborazione con il Centro Internazionale di Formazione – ITCILO, con sede a Torino. Presentano la sezione e il film, in anteprima nazionale, Giuseppe Gariazzo (critico cinematografico e collaboratore di Job Film Days) e Daniela Ricci (insegnante e ricercatrice in cinema, esperta in cinematografia d’Africa e delle diaspore). Seguirà l’incontro con Rute Mendes (funzionaria del Programma di politiche e analisi del lavoro ITCILO). Modalità di accesso: l’evento è accessibile tramite l’acquisto dei biglietti online o alla biglietteria del Cinema Massimo.   Acquista il biglietto online Regia, sceneggiatura: Boubacar Sangaré Fotografia: Isso Emmanuel Bationo Montaggio: Gladys Joujou Suono: Seydou Porgo Produzione: Imedia, Merveilles […]

GOOD LIFE (Lithuania/Sweden/Finland, 2022, 72′) XXX X ottobre, ore XX.XX, Cinema Massimo, Sala X   Buy ticket online Director, screenplay: Marta DauliUtE, Viktorija SiaulytePhotography: Elisabeth Marjanovi? CronvallEditing: Niklas KullstromSound: Vytis PuronasProducer: MDEMC, Just a moment, Hillstream Pictures What happens when entrepreneurial storytelling becomes part of the deepest self of a person and a community becomes a commodity, a product? By using different visual forms, including animation, the film stands as a delicate and critical glance on a world where work without pauses is intertwined in shared spaces, virtual connections, self-management and private life, innovation, precariousness, flexibility and individual adaptation are put to the test. Marta Dauliute (Siauliai, Lithuania, 1984) studied directing at Valand Art Academy of Göteborg. In addition to directing and producing short films and documentaries, she is co-organizer of Noncitizen, a project of nomad cinema and she teaches directing. She manages the production company MDEMC with Elisabeth Marjanovic Cronvall in Stockholm. In 2013, she collaborated with the director of the documentary short film L’Europe moderne of Maja Kekonius. She lives in Sweden. Viktorija Siaulyte (Kaunas, Lithuania, 1985) is a director, independent curator and producer in the fields of contemporary art, architecture and cinema. At the moment she co-curates […]

AGREB MAJNOUNA / THE GUARDIANS OF MARGOUM (Tunisia, 2022, 63′) XXX X ottobre, ore XX.XX, Cinema Massimo, Sala X   Buy ticket online Director and screenplay: Akram MoncerPhotography: Abdelmonem Ben Gaied, Helmi Ben ChahbounEditing: Zied Ben HassineSound: Tarek MahfoudhiProduction: Aymen Moncer, Akram Moncer In the city of Oudhref, situated in the governorate of Gabès, in the South-East of Tunisia, women face the daily life behind their job as weavers to claim their right to assert themselves. These pioneers are custodians of a millennial heritage, which is the weaving of the margoum, a traditional carpet from the tunisian city of Gafsa. Oudhref women represent the incarnation of art and memory, constituting the secret of life or rather survival. Akram Moncer (Gabès, Tunisia, 1985) graduated from the Institut Supérieur des Arts Multimédias in Tunisia in the department of audiovisual and cinema. A filmmaker and producer, he is an atypical author, always looking for new expressive forms in a varied career, which includes documentaries, advertisement and theater pièces. In 2012, he founded Artworks Production with his brother Aymen. He directed different works for the television channel Al Jazeera Documentary. In 2014, he debuted in feature films with the documentary Les oiseaux migrateurs, which […]

ABOUT THE CLOUDS (Argentina, 2022, 143′) XXX X ottobre, ore XX.XX, Cinema Massimo, Sala X   Buy ticket online Director: María AparicioScreenplay: María Aparicio, Nicolás Abello, Emanuel DíazPhotography: Santiago SgarlattaEditing: Martín SappiaSound: Juan Manuel YeriActors: Leandro García Ponzo, Eva Bianco, Pablo Limarzi, Malena León, Juana OviedoProduction: Trivial Media, Las Flores Ramiro is a cook in a bar. Hernán is an unemployed technician with a teenage daughter. Nora is a nurse in a public hospital and her husband works night shifts in a hotel. Lucía is an employee in a small and militant book shop. While the young woman crosses urban places, four stories alternate in Córdoba, fifth character of the film. None of them knows each other. A choral film in beautiful black and white shot in the director’s hometown. María Aparicio (Córdoba, Argentina, 1992) studied at the National University of Córdoba and worked for different directing and editing projects. In 2016 she made her feature film debut with Las calles participating and winning several festivals. Before shooting Sobre las nubes, her second feature film, she directed the short films Hombre bajo la lluvia (2018) and Buscar trabajo (2022). She lives in Córdoba and she is working on her new […]

GUMBO COALITION (Usa, 2022, 108′) XXX X ottobre, ore XX.XX, Cinema Massimo, Sala X   Buy ticket online Director: Barbara KopplePhotography: James Ball, Asad Faruqi, Gabriella Garcia-Prado, Gary Griffin, Thomas Kaufman, Bradley Rayford, Christopher Renteria, Jeff Saunders, Ray WhitehouseEditing: Hannes Hosp, Rob KuhnsMusic: Chris PaultreStarring: Marc H. Morial, Janet MurguíaProduction: SellersEaston Media, Cabin Creek Films Driven by the mutual determination not to be “the generation which let progress slip by”, national social justice leaders Marc Morial and Janet Murguía, alongside their Afro-American and Hispanic communities, join forces to fight structural racism in a worrying resurgence of white supremacy in the Trump era. Two-time Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple adopts a cinéma vérité approach to navigate the complex arc of racial justice during the pandemic years. Barbara Kopple (New York, Usa, 1946), US director and producer, she attended the School of Visual Arts in the 1960s where she met the filmmakers Albert and David Maysles, active in the documentaries, and she collaborated with them. The documentary genre will become her favorite art form. In 1972, Kopple founded the production company Cabin Creek Films. Four years later, with Harlan County U.S.A, she won her first Academy Award as best documentary, followed in […]

DRAGON WOMEN (Belgium/Switzerland/South Korea/Germany, 2022, 82′) XXX X ottobre, ore XX.XX, Cinema Massimo, Sala X   Buy ticket online Director, screenplay: Frédérique de MontblancPhotography: Olivier Boonjing, Tristan GalandEditing: Julie Naas, Thjis Van NuffelMusic: Nicolas RabaeusProduction: Savage Film, Beauvoir Films, Seesaw Pictures Often called “Dragons”, women in the financial sector still represent a small minority, especially in the upper echelons of power. In 2020, they were only 3%. The movie, filmed in different cities of Europe and Asia, shows a series of portraits of women who operate at the top of the financial industry, revealing the personalities that they had to build in order to gain access to important positions and the parts of themselves that they had to leave at home to reach those positions. Frédérique de Montblanc (Bruxelles, Belgium, 1982) completed her studies first in Montreal and then in Los Angeles between 2004 and 2007. She is a director and a visual artist who produces interdisciplinary projects. With choreographer Dominic Walsh she produced a short-film Malta Kano, Tx in 2015. Among her other works, the video The Cellar, transmitted in 2012 on the web and presented in a Parisian gallery. As a scenographer, she collaborated with directors and choreographers […]

THE GAMER (Finland, 2023, 80′) XXX X ottobre, ore XX.XX, Cinema Massimo, Sala X   Buy ticket online Direction, photography: Jesse Jokinen, Petri LuukkainenScreenplay: Jesse Jokinen, Petri Luukkainen, Jussi SandhuEditing: Jussi SandhuMusic: UpRightSound: Juho LuukkainenProduction: Napafilms Verneri, stage name Bona, is a Finnish super videogamer, but he has never won a final. With the help of a psychologist, things seem to be taking a new turn for the young champion, who vacillates between giving up and giving everything to reach his goal. The film shows us an unknown area of the work world, that of the videogames and professional video gamers, leading us ?behind the scenes? of that environment. Jesse Jokinen e Petri Luukkainen are Finnish filmmakers. Jokinen began his career as assistant director for TV films and TV series in 2004. He worked as director of photography for cinema and TV. The Gamer is his first movie. Luukkainen debuted in feature film in 2013 with the autobiographical documentary comedy My Stuff, followed by works for TV before co-directing The Gamer. Currently he is preparing the musical documentary Never-ending Dream. Filmography:Jesse Jokinen: Christoffer Strandberg Show (TV series, 2023).Petri Luukkainen: My Stuff (2013), Just Boys IRL (TV mini series, 2018), Voiko […]

SUR L’ADAMANT / On the Adamant (France/Japan, 2023, 109′) XXX X ottobre, ore XX.XX, Cinema Massimo, Sala X   Buy ticket online Direction, screenplay, photography, editing: Nicolas PhilibertSound: François Abdelnour, Elias Boughedir, Éric Ménard, Nathalie VidalProduction: TS Productions The Adamant is a psychiatric day center located on a barge on the Seine, in the heart of Paris. Through music, painting and bodily expression workshops, the patients face a responsibilization path which aims to make possible a new perception of their own position in the world. It won the Golden Bear in Berlin. The new film by Nicolas Philibert investigates this place in which healthcare personnel and patients build together their daily life fighting against the dehumanization of psychiatric treatment. Nicolas Philibert (Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France, 1951), after a degree in philosophy he began to deal with cinema as an assistant to René Allio and Alain Tanner. In the last years of the 1970s he started a career in real-life cinema. In 1978 he debuted with Gérard Mordillat La voix de son maître. From 1985 to 1987 he shot various mountain and sports adventure films for television. Then, he began to create documentary films for the cinema. In 2002 he directed the […]

OMBRE A MEZZOGIORNO / Shadows at Midday (Italy, 2023, 75′) XXX X ottobre, ore XX.XX, Cinema Massimo, Sala X   Buy ticket online Direction: Enrico CarnuccioScreenplay: Nicodemo Bumbaca, Enrico CarnuccioPhotography: Stefano CrociEditing: Enrico Carnuccio, Enrico MasiMusic: MujuraProduction: Caucaso Based on the micro story of the director?s family, cue for a wider analysis, the film analyzes the great internal Italian migration in the 1960s and 1980s. Through personal histories, the documentary makes a journey from Calabria to Turin. The documentary highlights the displacement, the uprooting, the disorientation of who left their land and had to relocate in an unfamiliar city and a new work environment, that of the factory. Enrico Carnuccio (Turin, Italy, 1981) is a photographer, filmmaker and researcher of environmental acoustics. He graduated as a civil engineer, then he specialized in the study of the soundscape. Between 2010 and 2020 he lived in Lisbon and Heidelberg, developing his visual approach as a photographer. He consolidated his experience as a filmmaker by collaborating with Caucaso Factory and by working on the projects: Shelter – Farewell to Eden (2019), Lucas a lucendo – A proposito di Carlo Levi (2019) e Terra incognita. In 2019 he produced and directed Ökofast, an experimental […]

RISO AMARO (Italy, 1949, 108′) XXX X ottobre, ore XX.XX, Cinema Massimo, Sala X   Buy ticket online Regia: Giuseppe De SantisSceneggiatura: Corrado Alvaro, Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani, Carlo Musso, Ivo Perilli, Gianni PucciniFotografia: Otello MartelliMontaggio: Gabriele VarrialeMusica: Goffredo PetrassiInterpreti: Silvana Mangano, Vittorio Gassman, Raf Vallone, Doris Dowling, Checco Rissone, Nico Pepe, Adriana Sivieri, Lia Corelli, Carlo MazzarellaProduzione: Lux Film In fuga dalla polizia dopo avere rubato la collana di una cliente su istigazione dell?amante Walter, Francesca, giovane cameriera d?albergo, sale su un treno pieno di mondine dirette da Torino verso le risaie vercellesi e si unisce a loro. Silvana, mondina veterana della stagione della semina del riso, le sottrae la collana. Sul luogo del lavoro Walter raggiunge Francesca e seduce Silvana. Quando scopre che la collana è falsa decide di rubare il riso accumulato nei magazzini. La tensione cresce e la tragedia incombe. Giuseppe De Santis (Fondi, Italia, 1917 ? Roma, Italia, 1997), regista, sceneggiatore e attore, studia filosofia all?Università di Roma. All?inizio degli anni Quaranta entra nel mondo del cinema frequentando il gruppo della rivista ?Cinema? con registi quali Carlo Lizzani e Michelangelo Antonioni. Nel 1942, dopo aver seguito i corsi del Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, gira […]

TRES EN LA DERIVA DEL ACTO CREATIVO / Three in the Drift of the Creative Art (Argentina, 2022, 96′) XXX X ottobre, ore XX.XX, Cinema Massimo, Sala X   Buy ticket online Direction: Fernando E. SolanasPhotography: Nicolás Fedor SulcicEditing: Nicolás Fedor Sulcic, Luca ZampiniMusic: Mauro LazzaroActors: Luis Felipe Noé, Eduardo Pavlovsky, Fernando E. Solanas, Gaspar Noé, Juan Solanas, Victoria SolanasProduction: Carolina Alvarez, Victoria Solanas Posthumous documentary by Fernando Solanas, one of the major Argentinian and Latin Americans filmmakers who died in 2020. Tres en la deriva del acto creativo describes the encounter of three senior artists and friends (Solanas, the painter Luis Felipe Noé, the playwright, actor and psychoanalyst Eduardo Pavlovsky) who met, with their relatives, to talk about their work and the ways to create it. More than a mere documentary, it is a film that proposes a common reflection on the art of making art and a heartfelt act of love towards life. Fernando Ezequiel ?Pino? Solanas (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936 – Paris, France, 2020), director, producer, screenwriter, actor, musician, cartoonist in the 1960s he was one of the founders of Grupo Cine Liberación. He was politically and socially committed and in 1968 he debuted in the feature […]

LA CLASSE OPERAIA VA IN PARADISO (Italia, 1971, 125′) XXX X ottobre, ore XX.XX, Cinema Massimo, Sala X   Buy ticket online Regia: Elio PetriSceneggiatura: Ugo Pirro, Elio PetriFotografia: Luigi KuveillerMontaggio: Ruggero MastroianniMusica: Ennio MorriconeInterpreti: Gian Maria Volonté, Mariangela Melato, Luigi Diberti, Salvo Randone, Renata Zamengo, Mietta Albertini, Flavio BucciProduzione: Euro International Film Ludovico Massa, detto Lulù, operaio in una fabbrica metalmeccanica, è una sorta di campione del cottimo: nessuno dei compagni riesce a eguagliare il suo ritmo produttivo. Non è contento di se stesso, ma si ammazza di fatica, finché un giorno perde un dito. Completamente cambiato, sostiene la necessità di uno sciopero a oltranza. Viene licenziato. Grazie all?intervento dei sindacati è riassunto. Alle soglie della pazzia, ai compagni favoleggia di un muro da abbattere oltre il quale c?è il paradiso della classe operaia. Elio Petri (Roma, Italia, 1929 ? Roma, Italia, 1982), regista, sceneggiatore e critico cinematografico, inizia la carriera negli anni Cinquanta collaborando al soggetto e alla sceneggiatura di film di diversi cineasti, in particolare Giuseppe De Santis, da lui considerato il suo maestro. Fin da adolescente profondamente legato agli ideali della sinistra, dirige il primo lungometraggio nel 1961, L?assassino, interpretato da Marcello Mastroianni, nel quale già […]

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DEMÉNOI / TIED (Grecia, 2019, 53′) XXX X ottobre, ore XX.XX, Cinema Massimo, Sala X   Acquista il biglietto online Regia, soggetto: Tassos MorfisFotografia: Yannis DrakoulidisMontaggio: Gerasimos DomenikosMusica: Giannis PapaioannouProduzione: AthensLive, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Fosphotos Atene, 2015. La Grecia è vicina alla bancarotta. Una compagnia marittima tra le maggiori del Paese, la Lesvos Shipping Company, è al collasso finanziario. 320 lavoratori navali, senza stipendio da mesi, entrano in sciopero contro di essa. Sette mesi di strenua lotta ? dal porto all?ufficio del primo ministro ? durante il periodo più critico e buio della storia della società ellenica moderna sono raccontati con grande ritmo e tensione. La storia di una lotta per il riconoscimento dei propri diritti che continua. Tassos Morfis (Grecia) lavora come reporter diventando imprenditore tecnologico e produttore di documentari. Collabora con emittenti come Channel 4 e CNN International ed è consulente del Consiglio d?Europa e della World Association of News Publisher?s Global Advisory. Per la stampa locale e straniera copre la crisi greca. Nel 2016 co-fonda la società indipendente AthensLive. Tied è il suo esordio nel cinema con il quale vince nel 2021 la seconda edizione di Job Film Days. Filmografia: Deménoi (doc., 2019).