The personal and physical journey of three Syrian refugees from the shores of Lesvos to the heart of Europe (Bruxelles, Belgium) and their process of integration in the new world.
THE SONGS | OTRFF5 In Competition > City Premiere
Sperone district, one of Palermo’s biggest squares. Like every summer, there are square concerts, karaoke, neighbourhood festivals featuring neo-melodic singers. Vincenzo, a six-year-old boy, climbs the stage imitating the motions of his idol Mimmo Fini. The film tells the desire for redemption of an entire family is substantiated in the voice of a clumsy child and his only song: “I fell in love”.
FLAT TYRE | OTRFF5 In Competition > City Premiere
Imagine a band from Alabama thrown into a music tour in southern Italy, playing “tarantella” and singing in the local dialect. Now, try to completely overthrow the elements of the history, and you will have “Flat Tyre,” the incredible musical journey through the USA of a group of young neapolitan musicians “La terza classe”, in search of the deep roots of American popular music. Winking at Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece, from Mali to Mississippi, the film mixes the human adventure on the road of the protagonists, street performances to cover the expenses of the tour and their encounters with the great sacred monsters of the bluegrass scene, dixieland and blues. Q&A with La terza classe.
CAFARD | OTRFF5 In competition > Italian Premiere
1914. While Jean Mordant is in the United States and is winning the world title of free struggle, his daughter Mimi, who stayed home in Belgium, is raped by German soldiers. Jean swears to avenge her, and enrolls in the famous ACM, the first armored division of history, embarking on an odyssey to return to her.
TRANSUMANZA TOUR | OTRFF5 Fuori Concorso
A folk trio, violin/guitar/voice, a sheep drawn on the cover of a music album, a bit of money and a whole country to cross to go home, from Maratea to Genoa. Six innovative, open and hospitable farms. Six stages of a musical-rural tour through Italy, its campaigns and its people. Back to the Land!
OTTOBRE live impro soundtrack | OTRFF5 Evento d’apertura > Anteprima Assoluta
The opening night 2017 is the opportunity to celebrate together three important occurrences. First of all the 20 years of Detour, independent quality cinema outpost, uncompromising, since 1997 at Rione Monti, in the heart of Rome. Fifth year, for On The Road Film Festival, an overview of the best independent international cinema on trips and borders. Finally, widening the horizons, exactly one hundred years ago, the October Revolution culminated in the Winter Palace in Russia. Ten years later, Sergei Eisenstein’s epic and surreal film recreated the revolt of 1917, with deflating freedom and dissipation of forms and contents and kinematic anarchy. The joyfully anarchist celebration of the three anniversaries is entrusted to the live soundtrack by three great international musicians, improvisation masters: Mike Cooper, Alìpio Carvalho and Roberto Bellatalla.
Cosmopolis 2G Film Award Film Workshop #5 > Produrre un documentario indipendente
Cosmopolis 2G Film Award // Film Workshop #5 a ingresso gratuito al Teatro Biblioteca Quarticciolo. Laboratorio dal titolo “Produrre un documentario indipendente” e proiezione del film “Il Successore”, di Mattia Epifani con la sceneggiatura di Francesco Lefons. // Cosmopolis 2G Film Award è il primo contest di cinema e video per giovani filmmaker e artisti di seconda generazione in Italia. Il progetto è ideato e promosso dall’associazione culturale APS Detour e sostenuto da SIAE e Mibact nell’ambito del bando “Sillumina – Copia privata per i giovani, per la cultura”. In collaborazione con Biblioteche di Roma si rivolge ad artisti residenti sul territorio italiano che al 31 dicembre 2017 non abbiano compiuto il 35esimo anno di età.
IN SEARCH FOR NOTHING + ANOTHER WORLD. Those who come by sea
IN SEARCH FOR NOTHING by Francesco Bartoli + ANOTHER WORLD by Manuela Morgaine (Best Film On the Road Film Festival 2016).
MALI BLUES di Lutz Gregor | OTRFF Official Selection 2016
Dopo l’anteprima italiana al On the Road Film Festival 2016, riproponiamo a grande richiesta MALI BLUES di Lutz Gregor. Uno straordinario viaggio sonoro, tra tradizione e chitarre elettriche, alla scoperta di una delle più interessanti scene musicali contemporanee, oggi minacciata dai fondamentalisti islamici. Tra le protagoniste Fatoumata Diawara, compositrice e cantante di fama mondiale. / Mali, situated in the heart of Western Africa, is the cradle of today’s Blues and Jazz. For centuries music has strengthened Mali’s cultural identity and musicians are holding strong positions in society. Following Fatoumata Diawara, the young shooting star of the global pop scene, MALI BLUES is a musical journey, discovering the country’s rich musical culture and it’s threat by radical Islamists.
MALI BLUES di Lutz Gregor | OTRFF Official Selection 2016
Dopo l’anteprima italiana al On the Road Film Festival 2016, riproponiamo a grande richiesta MALI BLUES di Lutz Gregor. Uno straordinario viaggio sonoro, tra tradizione e chitarre elettriche, alla scoperta di una delle più interessanti scene musicali contemporanee, oggi minacciata dai fondamentalisti islamici. Tra le protagoniste Fatoumata Diawara, compositrice e cantante di fama mondiale. / Mali, situated in the heart of Western Africa, is the cradle of today’s Blues and Jazz. For centuries music has strengthened Mali’s cultural identity and musicians are holding strong positions in society. Following Fatoumata Diawara, the young shooting star of the global pop scene, MALI BLUES is a musical journey, discovering the country’s rich musical culture and it’s threat by radical Islamists.