Film finalisti 2015 – Archivio RIFF

Fucking Different XXY

riff — Thu, 14 May 2015 22:30:12 +0000

Break stereotypes. Create confusion. Celebrate diversity. In order to create even more gender confusion as in his previous compilation Fucking Different XXX, Kristian Petersen asked for only trans filmmakers to contribute a short film about aspects of sexuality which are alien to them.

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Fair Play

riff — Thu, 14 May 2015 20:30:14 +0000

Czechoslovakia, the gray 1980s. Teenage Anna is a top sprinter and her trainer thinks she can go all the way to the Olympics. Her mother is also pinning her hopes on Annas success, seeing it as an opportunity for her daughter to live in the free world beyond the Iron Curtain. This vision is so strong that she willingly supports the doping program the communist regime is testing on her daughter although her health will clearly suffer. Unfolding gradually, Fair Play may be a tale of fiction but it shines a light on historically-based demands made by the regime, and when they concerned a loved one it was difficult to ignore them. In addition to her powerful, unromanticized evocation of the era that avoids becoming an ostentatious stream of period props, the director succeeds in putting forward a universal story of adolescent fragility without resorting to melodrama. Although ostensibly about sports, this film presents a depiction of relationships and their complications.

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Drag King, il sogno di Julia

riff — Thu, 14 May 2015 19:00:31 +0000

A long time ago there were three kinds of human beings: male, female and androgynous. As they were powerful and threatening to scale the heavens, Zeus devised to cut them into two. Ever since then human beings longed for their other half so much that once found they restore their ancient perfection (Plato). Those who escaped the wrath of the Gods are not spared from the anxiety of research: Brutus at night, Julia at day, fragile and tenacious, reveals in front of the mirror that she does not know where this journey will take. Proud lesbian activist she’s one of the first Drag King in Italy.

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Non so perché ti odio – tentata indagine sull’omofobia e i suoi motivi

riff — Thu, 14 May 2015 19:00:09 +0000

Why is there so much hate through the centuries, so much annoyance and disgust toward homosexuality? Where does this attitude come from? This is a question asked to people who killed gay people or who are leaders of movements opposing the rights for homosexuals, to people who have been discriminated for their sexual orientation or who have seen their children to commit suicide for this reason.

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Due piedi sinistri

riff — Thu, 14 May 2015 18:20:34 +0000

In a neighborhood of Rome, Mirko is playing soccer with his friends. He meets Luana, sitting nearby. The two twelve years olds hit it off but an awful surprise leaves Mirko breathless. Luana instead smiles happily for the first time in her life.

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The Age Of Rust

riff — Thu, 14 May 2015 18:20:30 +0000

In the beautiful environment of the Alps, an extraordinary documentary about the incredible “Petramosaurus Cavator.” Through fiercest fighting and the miracle of birth, we will know the incredible life cycle of this beautiful species, and in particular its relationship with the man and our planet.

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Office Kingdom

riff — Thu, 14 May 2015 18:20:21 +0000

What the heck the clerk of a public office is doing, when she disappears for hours behind the counter with your urgent document in her hands? In a typical public office a customer waits for the approval of his document, but for the clerk to get it stamped will not be an easy task indeed. A look at bureaucracy from a different point of view.

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Return To Homs

riff — Thu, 14 May 2015 16:20:20 +0000

Nineteen-year-old Basset is the goalkeeper for the Syrian national soccer team. When revolution breaks out the charismatic young man becomes an iconic protest leader and singer. His songs reflect his dream of peaceful liberation from Assad’s brutal regime. Osama is a 24-year-old media activist and pacifist wielding his camera to document the revolution. But when the army cracks down and their beloved Homs becomes a bombed-out ghost town, these two peaceful protesters take up arms and transform into renegade insurgents, with devastating results.

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Midnight Swim

riff — Wed, 13 May 2015 22:30:18 +0000

When their mother goes missing in Spirit Lake, three half-sisters travel home to settle her affairs. The youngest sister, June, a documentary filmmaker, captures their bittersweet homecoming. But when the sisters jokingly summon a local ghost, their relationship begins to unravel and they find themselves drawn deeper and deeper into the true mystery of the lake.

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Mondial 2010

riff — Wed, 13 May 2015 22:20:58 +0000

Mondial 2010 is a film on love and place. A Lebanese gay couple decides to take a road trip to Ramallah. The film is recorded with their camera as they chronicle their journey. The viewers are invited through the couple’s conversations into the universe of a fading city.

Note: The relations between Israelis and Lebanese are governed by the 1943 Lebanese Criminal Code and the 1955 Lebanese Anti-Israeli Boycott Law, the former of which forbids any interaction with nationals of enemy states, and the latter of which specifies Israelis, making a trip for a Lebanese citizen to Israel (or Palestinian territories) impossible.

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