‘L’Aquila Film festival’, focus on reportage and documentaries

L’AQUILA, 07 MAY – The section of the L’Aquila Film Festival dedicated to documentary cinema reaches its eighth edition. The event, underway at the Palazzetto dei Nobili until May 17, includes an exhibition and competition space, as well as a space reserved for high school students. The event opens with the film ‘Vengo anch’io – Enzo Jannacci’ by Giorgio Verdelli and the presence in the room of the director himself and the members of the Policulturali Orchestra of Piazza Palazzo who will perform some songs by the great Milanese singer-songwriter. Tuesday 14 May will be the turn of ’20 days in Mariupol’ by Mstyslav Chernov; the screening, organized in collaboration with the ’24 February’ Association of L’Aquila, shows the images taken by the reporter during his recent stay in Mariupol and will be introduced by Maria Kristina Ilnytska. On Wednesday 15th the director Pappi Corsicato, welcomed by Luigia Lonardelli, senior curator of the MAXXI, will present his ‘Jeff Koons – A private portrait’ to the Festival public. On the same day, ‘Sex, Cinema and Power – Brainwashed’ by Nina Menkes will be screened. On Thursday 16th there will be a screening of the film ‘Innocence’ by Guy Davidi on the state of permanent war in Israel and the consequent generalized enlistment of boys and girls. However, four films have been selected for the competition: ‘The Purple House’ by Maria Grazia Liguori and Francesco Calandra, which tells the stories of women who lived in a refuge following mistreatment; ‘In galera’ by Michele Rho, which tells of the starred restaurant of the same name opened in the Bollate prison and in which the inmates work, thus putting themselves to the test in view of their reintegration into society – the actor Pietro Becattini, theater actor and author of project ‘Don Quixote behind bars’. Also in competition: ‘Roger… the President is coming!’ by Marco Chiarini, an atypical story of a Teramo awaiting the visit of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella; ‘The Performance’ by Caterina Clerici and Alfredo Chiarappa, the story of the American dream of a Kurdish dancer in search of fame. Info and programme: www.laquilafilmfestival.it (ANSA).