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Films
6 Films
Region
“Western Mediterranean”
x
Country
“Italy”
x
Series
“0”
x
films with a digital version
5
short films
2
films available on demand
1
Region
Middle and Near East
1
Western Mediterranean
6
x
Country
Italy
6
x
Palestine
1
Keywords
Animation
1
Archaeology
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
2
Dance / Theatre / Performance
1
Festivals / Carnival
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Herding
1
History
1
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
1
Intergenerational relations
1
Labour
1
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
1
Life Story / Life History
1
Memory
2
Migration
3
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Participatory / Collaborative methods
1
Research methods
1
Socioeconomic conditions
1
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
1
Urban
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
1
Directors
Cao, Umberto
1
D’onofrio, Alexandra
1
Fales, Ludovica
1
Grieco, Anthony
1
Mura, Andrea
1
Schillaci, Rosella
1
Schillaci, Rossella
1
Series
not set
6
x
Country of production
Canada
1
Italy
5
United Kingdom
2
Year of production
2011
2
2012
1
2015
1
2016
1
2018
1
Film list
IT WAS TOMORROW
2018
53
‘
Student
Directed by
Alexandra D’onofrio
.
After living in Italy for almost ten years without documents, three Egyptian men – Ali, Mahmoud and Mohamed – are suddenly awarded legal residence. As a whole new world of opportunities opens up to
Western Mediterranean
Animation
Art / Artists / Artisans
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Film / Photography / Mass media
Life Story / Life History
Memory
Migration
Research methods
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Letters from Palestine
2011
35
‘
Directed by
Ludovica Fales
.
What if in your great-grandfather’s letters there is a mystery your family doesn’t want to talk about? In 1920 Angelo Levi Bianchini set out to Palestine on an Italian diplomatic mission and never
Western Mediterranean
Middle and Near East
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Memory
History
Nodas. Launeddas at the time of crisis.
2015
29
‘
Intangible Culture
Directed by
Umberto Cao
Andrea Mura
.
Dating back 3000 years to the Nuragic civilisation on Sardinia, ‘launeddas’ are wind instruments that testify to contacts from across the Mediterranean. Although they nearly vanished in the 1960s, in
Western Mediterranean
Music / Ethnomusicology
Festivals / Carnival
Intergenerational relations
Other Europe
2011
75
‘
Directed by
Rossella Schillaci
.
What happens to African migrants once granted political refugee status? In Turin, a northern Italian city, an abandoned clinic has been squatted by more than 200 refugees since December 2008. Khaled,
Western Mediterranean
Migration
Urban
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Sea Boundary
2012
55
‘
Directed by
Rosella Schillaci
.
The film depicts the daily struggle of fishermen to earn a living in a harsh physical environment that brings out the social and economic tensions of modern society. Manning the Priamo are Cola, the
Western Mediterranean
Labour
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Socioeconomic conditions
Migration
Shepherds in the Cave
2016
87
‘
Material Culture
Directed by
Anthony Grieco
.
An international team of art restorers, archaeologists and volunteers begin work on the restoration of religious frescoes inside a network of ancient caves. Faced with local bureaucratic challenges
Western Mediterranean
Archaeology
Herding
Art / Artists / Artisans
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy