On the Road Film Festival 6. An itinerant and independent cinema festival. Palmarès 2018.
On the Road Film Festival 2018. ShortCuts > Short Films Competition
On the Road Film Festival 6. An itinerant and independent cinema festival, both on the road and borderline. Errant images, displacements and psycho-geographical drifts. Short films Awards, free entry with membership card 2018. Special events 7-15 december.
On the Road Film Festival 2018. Competition > NIMBLE FINGERS by Parsifal Reparato
On the Road Film Festival 6. A Chinese metropolis and its suburb, a semi-abandoned mansion and its sole inhabitant. A man look at the world with cynicism and resentment. Time ago, the building hosted an experiment of self-management and autonomy and the young man felt to be part of a different history. Today, some friends still knock at the door, while we ear the construction sites’s intense noise. The voice over, instead, reveals traits of a personal relationship, although the room of memory is difficult to recover.
On the Road Film Festival 2018. Competition > HAPPY NEW YEAR by Désirée Marianini
On the Road Film Festival 6. Nimble fingers belong to the Vietnamese women who work in factories owns by some of the most popular electronic brands. Thousands of young migrant workers come from a remote village on the highlands of Northern Vietnam. Now they lives in a Hanoi suburb, a district developed around one of the biggest industrial production sites in the world. Thes worker’ life strictly follows the rules of the great Industrial Park. Every single woman is apparently following a stereotype of tireless work and obedience to keep up with the pace of industrial production. Step by step the movie reveals the bases upon which the productive chain is built: the conditions in which the young workers are into, the tight control and the difficulties on the workplace.
On the Road Film Festival 2018 Competition> OUR WILDEST DREAMS by Marie Elisa Scheidt
On the Road Film Festival 6. A story of modern nomadic life, of its beauty and its hardships. Torn between society‘s expectations and their love of freedom, Foots and Torjus are on a quest for themselves in America’s asphalt jungle and in the deep woods of Norway – until their longing for their kids catches up with them. Foots and Torjus are united by their common attitude to life. They recognise their desire to be on the road as an existential human need.
On the Road Film Festival 2018 Concorso> ULTRAVOKAL by Christophe Karabache
On the Road Film Festival 6. While on the run, Erwan, a young defector, meets Celia, a lost soul who joins him in his getaway. They are both trailed by an old man, Institoris, sent by the system to track them down and seize them, dead or alive.
On the Road Film Festival 2018 Concorso>CROSS by Idir Serghine
On the Road Film Festival 6. Serge is a former successful motocross driver. Lame, his body heals from the effects of an accident. He can’t drive anymore but he still prowls on the country circuit. Unable to abandon his former life, he’s not aware his relationship with his girlfriend Elsa is falling apart.
On the Road Film Festival 2018 Concorso> BLUE KIDS by Andrea Tagliaferri
On the Road Film Festival 6. A brother and sister, an obsessive relationship, an inheritance, a conflict with their father and a foolish and studied gesture makes them run away together. Blue Kids is a story of love and vengeance brought to its extremity, rooted in a state of absence in which the protagonists live. Their only hand-hold seems to be the memory, distant and confused of when they were small, cradled by the stories of their grandmother and by cartoons, in that state of naivety in which they would have liked to stay forever. Debut feature film produced by the acclaimed director Matteo Garrone.
On the Road Film Festival 2018. Competition > 29.11 – 2.12
On the Road Film Festival 6. An itinerant and independent cinema festival, both on the road and borderline. Errant images, displacements and psycho-geographical drifts. Special events 7-15 december.
On The Road Film Festival 2019
Errant images, displacements and psycho-geographical drifts. Based at the DETOUR Arthouse Cinema in downtown Rome since 2010, ON THE ROAD FILM FESTIVAL is devoted to contemporary independent cinema – fiction, documentary and experimental – presenting travelogues, urban and waste-land wanderings, real or imaginary topographies, unexpected detours, psycho-geographical drifts, migration and nomadism.
We look for films that develop, through linguistic and narrative skills, a critical and inventive approach to the subject guidelines of the Festival: a traveling mood with digressions from fixed paths, where the route is what matters, not the destination.
The Festival hosts screenings, master classes, meetings, art exhibitions, live performances and music, both at DETOUR Cinema and at a variety of cinema venues, film clubs, schools, public libraries and other unusual locations in Rome and and in its surrounding area.