DocNomads films selected to Festival dei Popoli, Italy
That Tiny Place Where Light Comes In by Giulianna Camarena and Home is 1117 KM Away by Marta Smerechynska will be presented in the section “DOC at Work Future Campus” of the 64th edition of Festival dei Popoli, the leading International Documentary Film Festival in Italy and the oldest in Europe which this year is held from 2 to 10 November in Florence, Italy.
DOC at Work Future Campus selected “eight films by directors from the best European film schools that urge us to imagine new possible paths for the “Cinema of the Real”, to explore its hidden trends and unexpected glances”.
By Giulianna Camarena Montenegro (Peru) • 29’ • 2024
Synopsis:
What would happen if life weren’t life? What if it were a dream? What would happen if we found out that we were characters in the story of other writers? For Maria, a little girl who lives on a rise in Portugal with her brother, there could be infinite options. Maria and her brother have different opinions on what happiness or philosophy are; whether summer is beautiful or not; on the meaning of sleeping – but they are united when it comes to daydreaming. That Tiny Place Where Light Comes In takes us to the intersection of different paths, a magical place between past and future, imagination and reality, memory and fiction, and finds the solution to all differences in the dream, opening infinite possibilities for the two young characters. And for cinema too, probably.
In Festival dei Popoli catalogue
Trailer here.
By Marta Smerechynska (Ukraine) • 14’ • 2024
Synopsis:
The film director welcomes a few girls who are interested in renting a room in her flat. With an apparently light register, the interviews initially offer a catalogue of preferences, expectations, and red lines regarding cohabitation rules. When a young woman from Ukraine – like the director is – turns up, the anonymous tone of the meetings is interrupted. The conversation changes course as well as language, dwelling on the stories of several young women who flew from Ukraine after the Russian invasion on a large scale: experiencing war and mourning, leaving one’s home, living precariously in exile. With fragments of the stories confided to her the filmmaker puts together a depiction of a generation’s trauma and loneliness. She participates with her own load of memories – videos of happy moments, the remnants of an intimate story embodying the collective grief for an impossible return.
In Festival dei Popoli catalogue
Trailer here.