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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Das Kind ist Tot

    Shocking radical family portrait filmed in Super-8. In 18 minutes, an essential and personal cinematographic poem by Herbert Achternbusch.
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  • Del monte Pisano

    An exploration of the Tuscan landscape leads Benvenuti to the discovery of an ancient and almost lost tradition of popular poetry: the maggio.
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  • Medea, un maggio di Pietro Frediani

    Benvenuti films with commendable rigueur the performance of a maggio based on the character of Medea, staged by peasants in an old oil mill.
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  • Il cartapestaio

    An early, short masterwork where Benvenuti films with ecstatic participation (and Schönberg’s music) the laborious creative process of a master of pap
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  • Il giorno della regata

    An imaginative and vibrant picture on the traditional regatta between the Marine Republics of Italy, filmed by Benvenuti together with his students.
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  • The Ferrari Dino Girl

    A personal flashback to the Prague Spring of 1968 by one of the Czechoslovak New Wave film directors; a reconstruction of that night of August…
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  • Fuori gioco

    A virulent denunciation of the discriminations against disabled people, made by Benvenuti with a collective of militant film makers in 1968.
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  • Fame

    Aided by the comic act Specchio (Mirror), Benvenuti attempts to revive the comicality of silent films.
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  • Bambini di Buti

    Between documentary and fiction, Benvenuti leads a bunch of kids to the rediscovery of the ancient tradition of the maggio.
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  • Jansoree – The Unbearable Heaviness of Mama’s Nagging

    Cutting film in which a mother’s love for her son is hidden by her continual griping.
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