"I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians"
Idealistic theatre-maker discovers that not everyone wants to be reminded of Romania’s kick-off of the Holocaust.
140'
Romania
IFFR 2019
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IFFR 2019
Roberto Minervini grew up in Italy, but has lived for more than 10 years in the American South, where he became acquainted with 'the other side': the America of deeply religious Christian communities, armed militias with deep-rooted hatred of central government, and the forgotten masses for whom life is a daily struggle dominated by poverty, unemployment and addiction. He recorded their reality sharply and beautifully in Stop the Pounding Heart (2015) and The Other Side (2015), films on the boundary between feature and documentary.
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Programme IFFR 2019
A harvest of outstanding features – the future classics of arthouse cinema.
Read more about this programmeIdealistic theatre-maker discovers that not everyone wants to be reminded of Romania’s kick-off of the Holocaust.
140'
Romania
IFFR 2019
Eight-part series based on the first of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, a history of post-war Italy told through the fates of two young women who are best friends.
469'
Italy
IFFR 2019
At the age of 43, painter Javier Belmonte can no longer camouflage his fear of life and insecurity with bohemian bravura.
75'
Uruguay
IFFR 2019