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Focus Terra!

01 giugno 2021

To celebrate twenty years of the Euganea Film Festival we invited a great guest, perhaps the greatest we could think of: the Earth, our mother Earth. In reality we are her guests and as such we have obligations and rules that we must respect if we do not want to be unwelcome. This selection of films, events and shows we are presenting tells of how one can inhabit the Earth: by caring for it or by destroying it, by selfishly exploiting every resource or by striving to hand them over to those to come - a future that is not the one we deserve today.

Thursday 17 - Pianoro del Mottolone, Arquà Petrarca PD

Screening of Lazzaro felice in the presence of director Alice Rohrwacher

Alice Rohrwacher opens the 20. edition of the Euganea Film Festival and presents her feature film Lazzaro Felice (Italy, 125', 2018). The film recounts the peasant world and the choral dimension that characterised it until recently, but it is also the story of a friendship between Lazzaro, a good and naive peasant and Tancredi, the spoilt son of a noblewoman. The film was also made in full compliance with EcoMuvi, Europe's only fully certifiable environmental sustainability standard for audiovisual production. A protocol that helps reduce the environmental impact of cinema.

Friday 25 June - Monselice Castle, Monselice PD

Crédit Agricole Friuladria Award ceremony and talk with Stefano Mancuso

Stefano Mancuso, plant neurobiologist and passionate populariser, tells us a new truth about plants and describes them as intelligent and sensitive creatures, capable of choosing, learning and remembering.

Sunday 27 June - Villa Buzzaccarini, Monselice PD

Trent’anni di grano (Thirty years of wheat) - autobiography of a field by the Teatro delle Ariette

Teatro delle Ariette is the company of actor-farmers, of theatre to eat, of autobiography. In 1989, Paola Berselli and Stefano Pasquini left the theatre, and went to live on the farm called Le Ariette. They build the Deposito Attrezzi, a rural building that becomes their theatre headquarters. The show they bring to the Festival is a diary of daily life written during the summer of 2019, to tell the present through wheat.

Friday 2 July - Church of Corlanzone, Alonte VI

Screening of La Terra by Toni De Gregorio, Rodolfo Bisatti and Luciano Zaccaria (Italy, 1988, 73')

A film made in the 1980s under the supervision of Ermanno Olmi, which recounts the unique values that bind us to the Earth at a time when agriculture was moving from traditional cultivation to indiscriminate chemistry.