board of directors
Fiamma Arditi, Janina Quint, Mariam C.Said, Danae Elon
selection committee
Shoja Azari, Ellen Brodkey, Larry Kaplan, David Leiber, Verena Lueken, Sandro Manzo, Lizbeth Marano, Nathan Kensinger
consultants
Guy
Borlee, Emanuela Cascia, Angelica Ponti Caronìa, Marina Fabbri, Giorgio
Gosetti, Mirella Haggiag, Iman Sabbah, Najla Said, Maria Carolina Terzi,
Jordi Torrent, Anthony Weintraub
board of advisors
Caroline
Baron, Bernardo Bertolucci, Carroll Bogert, Francesco Casetti, Elena
Dagrada, Valerio de Paolis, Shirin Neshat, Guglielmo Pescatore
sponsors
UNESCO, Presidenza del Consiglio dei
Ministri, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Ministero degli Affari Esteri,
Comune di Spoleto, Regione Umbria, Università di Bologna – DAMS,
Università degli Studi di Perugia, Universita’per Stranieri di Perugia,
Agiscuola
partners
Ministero
per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Postevita, Fondazione Carla Fendi,
Surf Film, Asiatica Film Mediale, RAI
Educazione, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Alliance of
Civilization (AoC), Meltinsounds, The Sign Studio Foodhouse, Plural +,
Parrina, GMA Import Specialita’, Progetto Artiser
many thanks to friends, firms and institutions who have made
Senza Frontiere possible, and in particular to
Guendalina Ponti, Shahram Karimi, Sabrina Galanti, Jonathan Bach, Maziar
Mokhtari, Susanne Suermondt, Paolo Fallai, Carla Gabetti, Lilli
Garrone, Markus Nikel, Mauro Luchetti, Sonia Folin, Francesco Lopez,
Carlo Lanfranchi, Emanuele Pescatori, Valeria Bucci, Anna Magistrelli,
Pamela Coppola, Mirko Squillaci, Nadia Casari, Paolo & Ilaria
Castelluccio, Mauro & Giovannella Tinello, Frida Russo, Alessandro
Jamundo, Isabel Correa, Edna & Francisco da Luz, Silvia Garrone
On the practice of tolerance,
one’s enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama
WITHOUT BORDERS is dedicated to films that embrace our common humanity.
by
Lauren Greenfield, USA, 2012, 100’
A billionair’s family lives a grotesquely ostentatious life style but is
forced to scale down. The story provides an intimate look at the value
of "money" in America.
PLURAL+ SELECTION2012, 12’59"
Plural + engages youth through video projects from around the world
addressing issues such as migration, identity and human rights. This
year’s selection features works from Italy, Australia, Belgium.
AT 18.00OPEN THE DOORby
Shahram Karimi, 2013, Italia, Iran, 2013, 21’
The iranian artist Shahram Karimi has created this video during a 2
weeks workshop with 15 prisoners of the Maiano jail in Spoleto.
AT 18.30IL RISCATTOby
Giovanna Taviani, Italia, 2013, 24’ 50" con Sasà Striano
A story of redemption from the city of Naples to San Miniato. How Homer,
Dante, Shakespeare can be a turning page in a lost soul’s life.
AT 20.00CONCERT DEDICATED TO "OPEN THE DOOR"guitar Giulia Salsone
double bass Marco Loddo
AT 21.00SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MANby Malik Bandjellow, UK/Sweden, 2012, 86’
Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their mysterious
musical hero. They find far more in their quest than they ever hoped – a
story of dignity and inspiration. Best documentary Oscar 2013 winner.
SATURDAY 6 JULYAT 16.00LA BATTAGLIA DI ALGERIby Gillo Pontecorvo, Italy/Algeria, 1966, 121 min
The film is recreating a period of the Algerian revolution between
1954-1957. It shows the French as well as independence seeking Algerians
point of view; torture used by the French is contrasted with the
Algerian´s throwing bombs into cafes. The depiction of gorilla warfare
is legendary and in 2003 the film had a much publicized screening in the
Pentagon.
AT 18.00FIVE BROKEN CAMERASby Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, Israel/Palestine, 2011, 94’
In the village of Bil´in in the West Bank a separation barrier has been
built and the villagers start to resist this decision. Emad films the
struggle of daily arrests, shootings and night raids tyrannizing his
family and village.
AT 20.00THE GATEKEEPERSby
Dror Moreh, Israel, 2012, 101’
Surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli internal security
agency, are giving testimony of their career on camera. The interviews
include closely held state secrets, and offer a fascinating perspective
on the history of the area from the Six Day War until today. (Nominated
for 2013 Oscar as best documentary feature).
SUNDAY 7 JULYAT 16.00IRAN: UNVEILED AND VEILED AGAINby Firouzeh Khosrovany, Italy/Iran, 13’
A short documentary, using archival footage of Cinecittà as well as
family albums of the director, to tell the story of Iranian women.
THE PATIENCE STONEby
Atiq Rahimi, Afghanistan, 2012, 109’
A young woman in Afghanistan watches over her older husband who is
reduced to a vegetative state because of a bullet in his neck. One day
the woman decides to tell him the truth about her feelings and their
relationship. (Afghanistan’s entry for Oscar ‘s best foreign language
film).
AT 18.30KUMAby
Umut Dag, Austria/Turkey, 2012, 93’
Kuma means second wife in Turkish. This is a suspenseful and surprising
story of a Turkish mother of six children who lives in Austria. When she
gets ill she wants her family to be taken care of, which prompts her to
think of a plan.
AT 20.00LOREby
Cate Shortland, Australia/Germany, 2012, 109’
This is an intense drama involving the immediate post-WW II German
society from the viewpoint of German children. Lore leads her siblings
through the occupied zones of the allies on a journey across Germany.
This becomes a painful excursion of facing the truth about their
parents, their country and its values.
PROGRAM
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