Planeta Petrila
Special Jury Prize (Andrei Dăscălescu, Romania, 2016, 80’)
As a very well-constructed documentary project, Planeta Petrila follows the pangs of post-industrial reconversion letting us see with our own eyes the unfolding, on a very local scale, of global dynamics that concerns us all.
Highway Rest Stop
This film traces out the portrait of a motorway rest area located in the countryside in the North of France. It looks like a...
Among Houses and the Cosmos
Among Houses and the Cosmos is a sensuous meditation on people, their living spaces and beliefs. It contains many scenes with people engaged in...
Slowly
Grand Prize - (Shahram Badakhshan Mehr, Iran, 2017, 62’)
Sensitive, considerate and unobtrusive, Slowly follows the daily life in the home of an aging couple: but in the midst of sadness and regrets, a bold statement of hope is made apparent, with the announcement of the continuation of life.
Siberian Ark
Grand Prize -(Pavel Skorobogatov, Russia, 2017)
Siberian Ark is a Russian tale in the tradition of Leskov and Tolstoy, except it is true, and can be taken with the explicit reference to Noah's ark, as a simple living parable of the human mission.
Jean Rouch – 100
The Apricot Tree III International Documentary Film Festival opens with a screening of Chronicle of a Summer in honor of the centennial of Jean...
Giovanni Kezich
Giovanni Kezich
Giovanni Kezich (born 1956), since 1991, has been the director of the Museum of Customs and Traditions of the People of Trentino. Set...
At the Other Side of Technology
Ahmed, Halid and Ismaeel, immigrants from the Northern Region (Ghana) belonging to the Dagomba minority tribe, live and work in Agbogbloshie, a district in...
Ujan
The village of Ujan is located on the foot of Mount Aragats’ South-Western slope, in the Ashtarak Region of Armenia’s Aragatsotn Province and on...