EL PEPE. Una vida suprema. Emir Kusturica incontra Pepe Mujica

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El Pepe is the guerrilla-style cognomen of former Uruguayan President José Mujica, who led the South American country from 2010 to 2015. Double Palme d’Or-winner Emir Kusturica started work on a film when Mujica was in the last months of his presidency. A series of conversations between the two titans is the backbone to El Pepe, a Supreme Life.

Kusturica opt for an impressionistic and intimate portrait rather than photographic detail or regurgitating facts. He mixes in footage from Costa Gavras’s 1972 political drama State of Siege as representing the era. But for the most part, Kusturica is happy to sit back, smoke a cigar and let Mujica have his moment. 

The film was played out of competition at the last Venice Film Festival.

ROBERT FRANK. Don’t Blink

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“Il più influente fotografo vivente” scriveva qualche anno fa The New York Times. Scomparso recentemente all’età di 94 anni, Robert Frank resta tra i più innovativi fotografi documentaristi americani (autore del pionieristico “The Americans” assieme a Jack Kerouac) e il regista iconoclasta di film seminali come “Pull My Daisy” e “Cocksucker Blues”, realizzato con i Rolling Stones. Un artista schivo e rigoroso he ha rifiutato fino alla fine ricchezza e celebrità e le cui simpatie andavano a coloro che, come lui, nella vita hanno sempre dovuto lottare. Restio a interviste e interventi in pubblico e segnato profondamente da tragedie personali, Frank ha esplorato con dolore sentimenti complessi, mescolando sapientemente vita e lavoro e facendo in modo che fossero le sue opere a parlare per suo conto.

IL SEGRETO DELLA MINIERA

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A true and poignant story from Slovenia: in a sealed mine, deep underground, an immigrant miner finds thousands of bodies thrown into a pit after WW2. He affronts the society to preserve what is left of his own humanity by insisting to arrange a funeral for those bodies. RUDAR premiered at the Warsaw International Film Festival in 2017, was the Slovenian Oscar Entry 2018, and collected 21 Awards at International Festivals, among them Best Film, Best Actor and Best Director..

THE BRA

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Train driver Nurlan is heading to Baku for the last time before retirement. On its way round the neighborhoods of the city his train snags a blue bra off a washing line. To escape from his lonely existence, Nurlan embarks on the most adventurous journey of his life: to find the owner of this perky piece of underwear. He rents a small room in Baku and begins his quest. With great dedication, Nurlan knocks at every door along the train track. While the women he encounters have their own reasons for letting him into their private worlds, his ‘project’ does not remain unnoticed by their husbands. The more difficult it gets, however, the more creative and determined Nurlan becomes to convince every woman to try on the bra..

ANTROPOCENE. L’epoca umana. Sundance Film Festival & Berlinale

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On completion of the Global Climate Change Week 2019 Detour Cinema presents a cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive re-engineering of the planet. ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch is a four years in the making feature documentary film from the multiple-award winning team of Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, and Edward Burtynsky. Narrated by Alicia Vikander. | “Masterfully detailed, captivating you visually with a subtle yet haunting musical layer to tell a difficult yet necessary story.” | “To reach a better future, we have first to imagine it. Anthropocene elucidates our monstrous deeds in a way that is observational rather than condemnatory.” | “As the filmmakers release us from our trance, we emerge concerned, horrified, but hopefully motivated to do something.”. Official Selection for the Sundance, Toronto and Berlin International Film Festivals.

THE BRA

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Train driver Nurlan is heading to Baku for the last time before retirement. On its way round the neighborhoods of the city his train snags a blue bra off a washing line. To escape from his lonely existence, Nurlan embarks on the most adventurous journey of his life: to find the owner of this perky piece of underwear. He rents a small room in Baku and begins his quest. With great dedication, Nurlan knocks at every door along the train track. While the women he encounters have their own reasons for letting him into their private worlds, his ‘project’ does not remain unnoticed by their husbands. The more difficult it gets, however, the more creative and determined Nurlan becomes to convince every woman to try on the bra..

Hello Beijing. Anteprima Luci dalla Cina!

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Il regista ci propone di incontrare cinque stranieri a Pechino. Come possono ritrovare l’equilibrio in questa gigantesca città dalle sei tangenziali, un compositore tedesco, un imprenditore britannico, due giovani pachistani mandati lì dal padre benestante o un ristoratore inglese che ha aperto un pub?
Un incrocio di sguardi su una metropoli in via di globalizzazione.
Introduzione a cura di Luci dalla Cina

THE BRA

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Train driver Nurlan is heading to Baku for the last time before retirement. On its way round the neighborhoods of the city his train snags a blue bra off a washing line. To escape from his lonely existence, Nurlan embarks on the most adventurous journey of his life: to find the owner of this perky piece of underwear. He rents a small room in Baku and begins his quest. With great dedication, Nurlan knocks at every door along the train track. While the women he encounters have their own reasons for letting him into their private worlds, his ‘project’ does not remain unnoticed by their husbands. The more difficult it gets, however, the more creative and determined Nurlan becomes to convince every woman to try on the bra..

EL PEPE. Una vida suprema. Emir Kusturica incontra Pepe Mujica

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El Pepe is the guerrilla-style cognomen of former Uruguayan President José Mujica, who led the South American country from 2010 to 2015. Double Palme d’Or-winner Emir Kusturica started work on a film when Mujica was in the last months of his presidency. A series of conversations between the two titans is the backbone to El Pepe, a Supreme Life.

Kusturica opt for an impressionistic and intimate portrait rather than photographic detail or regurgitating facts. He mixes in footage from Costa Gavras’s 1972 political drama State of Siege as representing the era. But for the most part, Kusturica is happy to sit back, smoke a cigar and let Mujica have his moment. 

The film was played out of competition at the last Venice Film Festival.