Ai Weiwei, Never Sorry

Ai Weiwei NEVER SORRY di Alison Klayman, Stati Uniti, 2012, 91′

INFORMAZIONI

Giovedì 5 luglio 2012 – ore 21.00
Odeon Firenze, Piazza Strozzi

Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival in collaborazione con Odeon Firenze presenta in anteprima giovedì 5 luglio Ai Weiwei. Never Sorry di Alison Klayman.

Presentato all’ultimo Sundance Film Festival e in gennaio al Festival del Cinema di Berlino, Ai Weiwei. Never Sorry è il primo lungometraggio sull’artista e attivista di fama internazionale cinese Ai Weiwei.

Dal 2008 al 2010, la giornalista e regista Alison Klayman ha seguito e documentato la vita dell’artista: dalla preparazione delle grandi mostre internazionali, agli scambi intimi con i membri della famiglia, fino agli scontri sempre più accesi con il governo cinese.
In un paese soggiogato da un regime che nega i diritti fondamentali dell’umanità, la militanza di Ai Weiwei è divenuta il simbolo di una nuova cultura desiderosa di affrancarsi da ogni forma di repressione per rinnovarsi nei suoi valori fondamentali.
Ai Weiwei. Never Sorry offre uno sguardo sulla Cina contemporanea attraverso gli occhi di una delle sue più convincenti figure pubbliche.

Il film è distribuito da Feltrinelli Real Cinema, Pfa Film e Associazione Fanatic About Festival.

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Biografia

Ai Weiwei nasce nel 1957 a Pechino. Negli anni della Rivoluzione Culturale, ancora bambino, è costretto ai lavori forzati insieme al padre, considerato nemico del regime. La fervente attività politica dei genitori influenzerà notevolmente la sua esistenza. Dopo il diploma all’Accademia del Cinema di Pechino, Ai Weiwei intraprende la strada della pittura, fondando negli anni Settanta il gruppo artistico Stars. Nel 1981 si trasferisce negli Stati Uniti e poco dopo si stabilisce definitivamente a New York. La sua carriera artistica è arricchita dalla frequentazione di prestigiose scuole di design e di numerosi artisti e intellettuali americani. Nel 1985 realizza la prima mostra personale all’Ethan Cohen Gallery.

In occasione delle dure repressioni del Governo cinese alle proteste studentesche di Piazza Tiananmen del 1989, Ai Weiwei esprime la sua partecipazione con uno sciopero della fame fuori dalla sede delle Nazioni Unite.

Nel 1993 torna in Cina per accudire il padre malato. Collabora alla fondazione e alla promozione dell’East Village di Pechino, una comunità di artisti cinesi d’avanguardia. Nel 1999 inizia ad occuparsi di architettura e fonda il suo studio, il “FAKE Design”. Insieme agli architetti svizzeri Herzog & de Meuron vince il concorso per il progetto dello Stadio nazionale di Pechino per le Olimpiadi del 2008 e del padiglione della Serpentine Gallery di Londra.

Nel 2006 apre un blog dove denuncia le sopraffazioni e le violazioni dei diritti messe in atto dal Regime Cinese, accusato tra l’altro di aver organizzato le olimpiadi a scopo di propaganda politica e di aver taciuto gli illeciti architettonici ed economici che hanno causato le migliaia di vittime del terremoto del 2008.

Nel 2010 la Turbine Hall della Tate Modern di Londra ospita la sua grandiosa installazione “Sunflower seeds” milioni di semi di girasole in ceramica realizzati a mano da artigiani cinesi.

Per la sua opposizione al regime viene arrestato nell’aprile del 2011 e recluso per 81 giorni in stato di isolamento in una località segreta. I principali musei del mondo hanno realizzato una petizione online per la liberazione dell’artista e per il ripristino dei diritti fondamentali e della libertà di espressione in Cina che ha raccolto migliaia di adesioni.

The World According to Kapoor – A Portrait of Anish Kapoor

a film by Heinz Peter Schwerfel

As part of the Contemporary Marathon FOR the LOVE of CONTEMPORARY, Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival in collaboration with Comune di Firenze, Assessorato alla Cultura e alla Contemporaneità, Fondazione Sistema Toscana Mediateca presents the Italian Premiere of the filmTHE WORLD ACCORDING TO KAPOOR – A Portrait of Anish KAPOOR by Heinz Peter Schwerfel (Francia/GB, 2011, 52’).

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[tab title=”INFORMATIONS”]Saturday June 11, 2011 – 9.00 pm
Odeon Firenze, Piazza Strozzi
Free admission

Co-produced by Schuch Productions and ARTE France, Schwerfel’s film is an interview, full of suggestions and reflections, in which Anish Kapoor, one of the most famous artists in the world, recounts his search for new forms, his thoughts about sculpture and the metaphysical conception of the spaces with which he interacts. His words are a commentary on the images shot in his studio-laboratory in London, at Millennium Park in Chicago, where his extraordinary Cloud Gate has become one of the city’s most-visited monuments, and at his shows in Bilbao, Mumbai, Delhi and Paris.

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[tab title=”CREDITS”]ARTE France & SCHUCH Productions
PRESENT
The World According to Kapoor

  • un film de Heinz Peter Schwerfel
  • Image Marcel Neumann
  • Montage Philippe La Bruyère
  • Musique originale et conception sonore Ulrich Lask
  • Productrice Anne Schuchman
  • Production exécutive Laurence de Rosière
  • Chargée de production Alexandra Riegel
  • Prise de son Benjamin Ehlers, Richard Berdich
  • Machiniste Bilbao piki-piki – Ernesto Nunez
  • Régie Inde
    . Mindseye Entertainment
    . production: Lalit Kholi, Youla Khurana
    . machinistes: Kishore Lingam (Mumbai), Rajesh Kumar (New Delhi)
    . caméra vernissage Mumbai: Vikramjit Singh Ba
  • Mixage et enregistrements L’ENVOL – Roger Dupuis
  • Post-production Artcore Film
  • Voix doublage et commentaire Laurent Natrella, Andrea Schieffer
  • Nous remercions
    . Anish Kapoor ainsi que son équipe de Londres avec Lucy Adams et Clare Chapman
    . Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao
    . The Royal Parks, London
    . Serpentine Gallery, London
    . Millenium Park, Chicago
    . British Council, London
    . Ministry of Culture, Government of India
    . National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
    . Amrita Jhaveri / Mark Prime, Mumbai
    . Alice Branche
    . Jean de Loisy
  • Une coproduction SCHUCH Productions, Anne Schuchman
  • ARTE France Unité Culture et Spectacles
  • Directrice adjointe à la Culture Emelie de Jong
  • Chargé de programmes Ali Delici
  • Administrateur Pascal Aron
  • Chargée de Post-Production Stéphanie Lanois
  • Avec le soutien du Centre National du Cinéma et de l’image animée
  • Distribution ARTE France

© ARTE France – SCHUCH Productions – 2011
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[tab title=”SYNOPSIS”]The World According to Kapoor – A Portrait of Anish Kapoor
A film by Heinz Peter Schwerfel
2011, 52’, video

Coproduction Schuch Productions / ARTE France

A multicultural magician, an aesthetic perfectionist, and an engineer of the impossible, sculptor Anish Kapoor thrives on new artistic and technical challenges, such as his enormous inflatable structure with which he took over the Grand Palais in Paris at the Monumenta 2011 exhibition.
Kapoor, who was born in India but has lived in England since the 1970s, is an enchanting artist – his enormous mirrors capture the clouds, his pigment miniatures are sculptures of  monochrome colour, and his wall hangings pull us into a sublime void.
This documentary recounts the world according to Kapoor, via a journey, from his London studios to the permanent installations of Chicago and Naples, to exhibitions in Bilbao, Mumbai and Delhi. The artist is given the opportunity to talk personally about his perpetual quest for new forms, which are always deeply moving.

Image: Marcel Neumann
Editing: Philippe La Bruyère
Original music and sound conception: Ulrich Lask
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[tab title=”ANISH KAPOOR”]Among the most famous artists of our time, Anish Kapoor is a multicultural wizard, an aesthetic perfectionist and an engineer of the impossible who constantly recharges himself with new artistic and technological challenges, such as Orbit, the 100 meter-plus tower he designed for the London Olympics of 2012, whose construction has just begun.

Kapoor, who was born in Mumbai in 1954 and moved to London in the 70s, is currently on the scene with three shows in as many cities. In Paris, at the Grand Palais, as part of the Monumenta 2011 project, he created Leviathan, a gigantic PVC installation based on forms halfway between dragon and serpent, taken from the Book of Job, a creature that suggests an imminent catastrophe. In Milan, he inaugurated a one-man show at the Rotonda della Besana at the end of May and created Dirty Tunnel, an enormous steel tunnel which visitors can walk through in complete darkness, at the Fabbrica del Vapore. In Venice, in the Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, he installed Ascension–a steam jet, almost an insubstantial column, but also a “breath” that suggests the pneuma, the divine breath of Christian tradition, as the artist says.
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Tra Arte e Cinema, 3rd edition

Films on contemporary art from the archive of Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival

This year the third edition it will be held at the Spazio Oberdan in Milan, May 22 to 25, 2013.
This cycle of films, born in 2011 and presented until last year at the Aula Magna of the Accademia di Belle Arti, is opened this year to the public of the city of Milan, thanks to the collaboration between the Province of Milan/Councillorship of Culture and Fondazione Cineteca Italiana. Promoted by the Accademia of Brera and curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti, Laura Lombardi e Elisabetta Longari, it gathers the best films presented at the last Schermo dell’arte.
Under the aegis of the Municipality of Milan.

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Spazio Oberdan – Sala Alda Merini
viale Vittorio Veneto 2, corner Piazza Oberdan
Milano MM 1 Porta Venezia

The films are in original languages with Italian and English subtitles

TICKETS
3:00 pm and 5:00 pm shows
€ 5.50 full ticket
€ 3.50 reduced for university students and Cinetessera 2013 owner
7:00 pm and 9:00 pm shows
€ 7 full ticket
€ 5.50 reduced for university students and Cinetessera 2013 owner
Free Admission
for students of Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera showing the university student’s record-book

Info and ticket office:
Tel 02.77406316
info@schermodellarte.org
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[tab title=”PROGRAM”]May 22 – 25 2013
The films are in original languages with Italian and English subtitles

 

[accordion] [accordion-item title=”May 22″][mini-icon icon=”time”] 3.00 pm

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by Chris King, Regno Unito, 2012, 37′
Language: English

[button link=”http://www.schermodellarte.org/scheda_film.php?id=92&lingua=ENG&nochiudi=1?iframe=true&width=800&height=600″ size=”small” target=”_blank” style=”light” lightbox=”true” color=”white”]Opalka – One Life, One Oeuvre[/button]
by Andrzej Sapija, Polonia, 2011, 54′
Language: Polish, English; subtitles: English

[mini-icon icon=”time”] 5.00 pm

[button link=”http://www.schermodellarte.org/scheda_film.php?id=73&lingua=ENG&nochiudi=1?iframe=true&width=800&height=600″ size=”small” target=”_blank” style=”light” lightbox=”true” color=”white”]How to Make A Book With Steidl[/button]
by Jörg Adolph, Gereon Wetzel, Germania, 2010, 88′
Language: English, German; subtitles: English

[mini-icon icon=”time”] 7.00 pm

[button link=”http://www.schermodellarte.org/scheda_film.php?id=98&lingua=ENG&nochiudi=1?iframe=true&width=800&height=600″ size=”small” target=”_blank” style=”light” lightbox=”true” color=”white”]Unfinished Spaces[/button]
by Alysa Nahmias, Benjamin Murray, Cuba / Stati Uniti, 2011, 86’

[mini-icon icon=”time”] 9.00 pm

[button link=”http://www.schermodellarte.org/scheda_film.php?id=78&nochiudi=1?iframe=true&width=800&height=600″ size=”small” target=”_blank” style=”light” lightbox=”true” color=”white”]Herb & Dorothy[/button]
by Megumi Sasaki, Stati Uniti, 2009, 87′
Language: English[/accordion-item]

[accordion-item title=”May 23″]
[mini-icon icon=”time”] 3.00 pm

[button link=”http://www.schermodellarte.org/scheda_film.php?id=81&lingua=ENG&nochiudi=1?iframe=true&width=800&height=600″ size=”small” target=”_blank” style=”light” lightbox=”true” color=”white”]Dan Perjovschi Solo in Rome[/button]
by Milo Adami, Italia, 2012, 23’,
Language: English

[button link=”http://www.schermodellarte.org/scheda_film.php?id=33&lingua=ENG&nochiudi=1?iframe=true&width=800&height=600″ size=”small” target=”_blank” style=”light” lightbox=”true” color=”white”]Olafur Eliasson. Space is Process[/button]
by Henrik Lundø & Jacob Jørgensen, Danimarca, 2009, 52’,
Language: English, Danish; subtitles: English

[mini-icon icon=”time”] 5.00 pm

[button link=”http://www.schermodellarte.org/scheda_film.php?id=94&lingua=ENG&nochiudi=1?iframe=true&width=800&height=600″ size=”small” target=”_blank” style=”light” lightbox=”true” color=”white”]Picasso In Palestine[/button]
by Rashid Masharawi, Palestina, 2012, 52’,
Language: Arab, English; subtitles: English

[mini-icon icon=”time”] 7.00 pm

[button link=”http://www.schermodellarte.org/scheda_film.php?id=59&lingua=ENG&nochiudi=1?iframe=true&width=800&height=600″ size=”small” target=”_blank” style=”light” lightbox=”true” color=”white”]Gerhard Richter Painting[/button]
by Corinna Belz, Germania, 2011, 97’,
Language: German; subtitles: English

[mini-icon icon=”time”] 9.00 pm

[button link=”http://www.schermodellarte.org/scheda_film.php?id=86&lingua=ENG&nochiudi=1?iframe=true&width=800&height=600″ size=”small” target=”_blank” style=”light” lightbox=”true” color=”white”]Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters[/button]
by Ben Shapiro, Stati Uniti, 2012, 79’,
Language: English
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[accordion-item title=”May 24″][mini-icon icon=”time”] 3.00 pm

[button link=”http://www.schermodellarte.org/scheda_film.php?id=85&lingua=ENG&nochiudi=1?iframe=true&width=800&height=600″ size=”small” target=”_blank” style=”light” lightbox=”true” color=”white”]Garden In The Sea[/button]
by Thomas Riedelsheimer, Messico / Germania, 2011, 68’,
Language: Spanish, English; subtitles: English

[mini-icon icon=”time”] 5.00 pm

[button link=”http://www.schermodellarte.org/scheda_film.php?id=77&lingua=ENG&nochiudi=1?iframe=true&width=800&height=600″ size=”small” target=”_blank” style=”light” lightbox=”true” color=”white”]The Art Of The Steal[/button]
by Don Argott, Stati Uniti, 2009, 101’,
Language: English

[mini-icon icon=”time”] 7.00 pm

[button link=”http://www.schermodellarte.org/scheda_film.php?id=93&lingua=ENG&nochiudi=1?iframe=true&width=800&height=600″ size=”small” target=”_blank” style=”light” lightbox=”true” color=”white”]Per Troppo Amore: Incompiuto Siciliano[/button]
by Alterazioni Video, Italia, 2012, 21’,
Language: Italian; subtitles: English

[button link=”http://www.schermodellarte.org/scheda_film.php?id=90&lingua=ENG&nochiudi=1?iframe=true&width=800&height=600″ size=”small” target=”_blank” style=”light” lightbox=”true” color=”white”]Mark Lombardi – Kunst und konspiration (Death Defying Acts of Art and Conspiracy)[/button]
by Mareike Wegener, Germania, 2011, 53’,
Language: English

[mini-icon icon=”time”] 9.00 pm

[button link=”http://www.schermodellarte.org/scheda_film.php?id=95&lingua=ENG&nochiudi=1?iframe=true&width=800&height=600″ size=”small” target=”_blank” style=”light” lightbox=”true” color=”white”]Self Made[/button]
by Gillian Wearing, Regno Unito 2010, 88’,
Language: English
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[accordion-item title=”May 25″][mini-icon icon=”time”] 3.00 pm

[button link=”http://www.schermodellarte.org/scheda_film.php?id=78&lingua=ENG&nochiudi=1?iframe=true&width=800&height=600″ size=”small” target=”_blank” style=”light” lightbox=”true” color=”white”]Herb & Dorothy[/button]
by Megumi Sasaki, Stati Uniti, 2009, 87′
Language: English

[mini-icon icon=”time”] 5.00 pm

[button link=”http://www.schermodellarte.org/scheda_film.php?id=80&lingua=ENG&nochiudi=1?iframe=true&width=800&height=600″ size=”small” target=”_blank” style=”light” lightbox=”true” color=”white”]Damien Hirst: Thoughts, Work, Life[/button]
by Chris King, Regno Unito, 2012, 37′
Language: English

[button link=”http://www.schermodellarte.org/scheda_film.php?id=92&lingua=ENG&nochiudi=1?iframe=true&width=800&height=600″ size=”small” target=”_blank” style=”light” lightbox=”true” color=”white”]Opalka – One Life, One Oeuvre[/button]
by Andrzej Sapija, Polonia, 2011, 54′
Language: Polish, English; subtitles: English

[mini-icon icon=”time”] 7.00 pm

[button link=”http://www.schermodellarte.org/scheda_film.php?id=98&lingua=ENG&nochiudi=1?iframe=true&width=800&height=600″ size=”small” target=”_blank” style=”light” lightbox=”true” color=”white”]Unfinished Spaces[/button]
by Alysa Nahmias, Benjamin Murray, Cuba / Stati Uniti, 2011, 86’

[mini-icon icon=”time”] 9.00 pm

[button link=”http://www.schermodellarte.org/scheda_film.php?id=59&lingua=ENG&nochiudi=1?iframe=true&width=800&height=600″ size=”small” target=”_blank” style=”light” lightbox=”true” color=”white”]Gerhard Richter Painting[/button]
by Corinna Belz, Germania, 2011, 97’,
Language: German; subtitles: English
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Tra Arte e Cinema, IV edition

Films on contemporary art from the archive of Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival and artist’s film

Promoted by the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera
under the aegis of the Municipality of Milan
in collaboration with PAC Padiglione di arte contemporanea and Cinema Beltrade
curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti, Laura Lombardi and Elisabetta Longari

For its fourth edition, Tra Arte e Cinema will collaborate with PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea. On the occasion of Regina José Galindo’s one-man show Estoy Viva, which can be seen till June 8, one of her recent works will be shown: La Verdad (2013), with screenings during all four days of the series.
Another new feature this year is the partnership with l’Università degli Studi di Milano, through which students of Cultural Treasures Sciene, Art History and Art Criticism, as well as Show Business Science, can attend the projections at a reduced admission charge.

To access the films, connect to the MYMOVIESLIVE!, page, register and activate a FREE or UNLIMITED profile.
The programme calendar in streaming includes:

April 2, 9 p.m.: My Name Is Janez Jansa
April 3, 8:30 p.m.: Sculpture Constantin Brancusi
April 3, 9 p.m.: Erwin Wurm. The Artist Who Swallowed the World

INFORMATION

APRIL 2 – 5, 2014
Cinema Beltrade
via Oxilia 10, Milan
7 min walk from MM1 Pasteur, 12 min from MM2 Loreto
TICKETS
€ 6.50 full ticket
€ 5.00 reduce (under 26 and over 65; visitors with exhibition ticket of Regina José Galindo, PAC, Milan)
€ 3.50 for students in Sciences for Cultural Heritage, Art History and Criticism and Performing Arts and Sciences, as well as for students of film courses at School of Film and Television – Fondazione Milano.
Free admission for students and professors of Brera Academy of Fine Arts

Info:
Tel 02 26820592 – 348 2666090 – 347 4512456
info@cinemabeltrade.net
www.cinemabeltrade.net
www.barzandhippo.com

The films are in original languages with Italian subtitles

 

Program 

April 2

4 pm

Breaking Ground
by Nancy Holt and Theo Tegelaers, The Netherlands, 2011, 20’
language: English; subtitles: Italian

Erwin Wurm – The Artist Who Swallowed the World
by Laurin Merz, Austria / Switzerland / Germany, 2012, 52′
language: German, English; subtitles: English, Italian

Restless – Keith Haring in Brazil
by Guto Barra and Gisela Matta, Brasil, 2013, 38′
language: English; subtitles: Italian

 6 pm

Sol LeWitt
by Chris Teerink, The Netherlands, 2012, 72′
language: English, Dutch, Italian; subtitles: English, Italian

OPENING NIGHT  7.30 pm

 9 pm

Regina José Galindo – La Verdad
by José Juárez, Guatemala, 2013, 73’
language: Spanish; subtitles: Italian

April 3

4 pm

Meeting with Olafur Eliasson
by Marco Del Fiol, Brasil, 2011, 27′
language: English; subtitles: Italian

Inside Out: The People’s Art Project
by Alastair Siddons, UK, 2013, 70′
language: Arabic, Creole, English, French; subtitles: English, Italian

6 pm

The Bride
by Joël Curtz, France, 2012, 41′
language: Italian; subtitles: English

Sophie Calle, Untitled
by Victoria Clay Mendosa, 2012, France / USA, 52′
language: French, English; subtitles: English, Italian

8 pm

Fifi Howls from Happiness
by Mitra Farahani, USA / France, 2013, 96′
language: Pharsi; subtitles: English, Italian

10 pm

Regina José Galindo – La Verdad
by José Juárez, Guatemala, 2013, 73’
language: Spanish; subtitles: Italian

April 4

4 pm

Dans un océan d’images
by Helen Doyle, Canada, 2013, 90’
language: English, French, Italian; subtitles: English, Italian

6 pm

Sculpture Constantin Brancusi
by Alain Fleischer, France, 2013, 26′
language: French; subtitles: Italian

Open Field – Gabriel Orozco
by Juan Carlos Martìn, Mexico, 2013, 75′
Language: Spanish, English, French, subtitles: English, Italian

8 pm

The Toxic Camera
by Jane and Louise Wilson, UK, 2012, 21′
language: English; subtitles: Italian

The Role of a Lifetime
by Deimantas Narkevičius, Lithuania, 2003, 16’
language: English; subtitles: Italian

My Name is Janez Janša
by Janez Janša, Slovenia, 2012, 67′
Language: Slovenian, English, Italian, Croatian, Serbian, French; subtitles: English, Italian

 10 pm

Regina José Galindo – La Verdad
by José Juárez, Guatemala, 2013, 73’
language: Spanish; subtitles: Italian
 times.

April 5 

4 pm

Breaking Ground
by Nancy Holt and Theo Tegelaers, The Netherlands, 2011, 20’
language: English; subtitles: Italian

Sculpture Constantin Brancusi
by Alain Fleischer, France, 2013, 26′
language: French; subtitles: Italian

Erwin Wurm – The Artist Who Swallowed the World
by Laurin Merz, Austria / Switzerland / Germany, 2012, 52′
language: German, English; subtitles: English, Italian

 6 pm

Meeting with Olafur Eliasson
by Marco Del Fiol, Brasil, 2011, 27′
language: English; subtitles: Italian

My Name is Janez Janša
by Janez Janša, Slovenia, 2012, 67′
Language: Slovenian, English, Italian, Croatian, Serbian, French; subtitles: English, Italian

8 pm

Fifi Howls from Happiness
by Mitra Farahani, USA / France, 2013, 96’
language: Pharsi; subtitles: English, Italian

10 pm

Regina José Galindo – La Verdad
by José Juárez, Guatemala, 2013, 73’
language: Spanish; subtitles: Italian