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- To Kill a Mongolian Horse
- Peaches goes Bananas
- Nel nome del padre
TO KILL A MONGOLIAN HORSE
Giornate degli Autori – Competition
Malaysia, United States, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, 2024, Director Xiaoxuan Jiang Running time 98′,
Sala Corinto 19.45 pm
Amidst the winter steppes, Saina, a Mongolian horseman and performer, tends his ranch during the day and performs for the public at night. Unlike the regal horseman he plays in the show, in everyday reality, Saina discovers that his life as a herdsman is on the brink of an abyss. ‘When I visited him at the horse fair, I was struck by the hyper-masculine atmosphere, where traditional Mongolian masculinity stood out. In the film, Saina plays himself; he is a character who oscillates between the world of horse shows and his struggles in real life; he begins to find the stark contrast between the roles he plays and his current condition irreconcilable’.
Tiziana Leone
PEACHES GOES BANANAS
Giornate degli Autori – Concorso
France, Belgium. 2024. Directed by Marie Losier. Starring Merrill Nisker (Peaches). Running time 73′
French director Marie Losier has a particular talent for staging portraits of underground musicians. Her feature films include The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2011), about Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Jaye and the band Psychic TV (founded by Genesis P-Orridge after the break-up of Throbbing Gristle) and Felix in Wonderland! (2019) about electronic musician Felix Kubin. For the past 17 years, Marie Losier has filmed Canadian electropunk singer and queer feminist icon Peaches. Between packed concerts, a close relationship with her sister Suri and the staging of her first opera Whose Jizz Is This?, which Peaches describes as ‘a deconstructed musical in 14 scenes’, Peaches Goes Bananas is an intimate portrait of an artist who breaks taboos and embraces every stage of life by transforming her body into art.
Oscar Cosulich
NEL NOME DEL PADRE
Giornate degli Autori – Confronti
prima mondiale
Italia, 2024. Regia Irene Saderini, Tommaso Gorani. Durata 1h e 10’
Per lo spazio Confronti delle 21me Giornate degli Autori riflettori sullo sport, sul rapporto tra genitori e figli e sul difficile percorso per trovare la propria strada. Di tutto questo si parla nel documentario Nel nome del padre (alle ore 18 in Sala Laguna). Il film segue per un anno e mezzo Gioele Meoni, figlio del motociclista Fabrizio Meoni, due volte vincitore della Parigi-Dakar e morto tragicamente nel 2005, in quella che avrebbe dovuto essere la sua ultima corsa. Alla regia troviamo Irene Saderini (suoi il corto Drive Tastefully e il doc Sea Shepherd – I guardiani del mare) e Tommaso Gorani, collaboratore, tra gli altri, di Luc Besson, Pablo Larraín e dei gemelli Boukherma.
Emanuele Bucci
