Following the new Covid-19 restrictions, the festival programme is being streamed on MYmovies.it until November 22.
The 61st edition of the Italian film festival, called Festival dei Popoli, has featured Moroccan film Fadma: Even Ants Have Wings in the International Competition section of the festival.
Directed by Jawad Rhalib, the documentary tells the story of a clash between men used to their privileges and women fighting for their rights. Fadma and her family spend the holidays in a small village in Morocco. Soon Fadma leads a rebellion of the local women who have been compelled to both work and take care of the households for centuries.
Following the new Covid-19 restrictions, the festival programme is being streamed on MYmovies.it until November 22.
The festival’s International Competition is featuring 18 films including shorts, medium-length and feature films, all unpublished in Italy, while the Italian Competition will feature seven titles, all unpublished in the country. The festival also includes a Habitat section, on the themes of the ecosystem and contemporary living, the Let the Music Play section dedicated to music and the section for young viewers and families, Popoli for Kids and Teens.
At the price of $11.76, viewers can follow the festival calendar with any device connected, choose the screenings and also access panels, masterclasses, and exclusive meetings with authors.
Claudia Maci and Alessandro Stellino, co-directors of the festival, said: “With the closure of the cinemas, the festivals have once again found themselves without a home and, at the same time, have discovered that the spectators of a film can be multiplied endlessly, to be reached through the myriads of windows open to the circuit of the works. The programme of the event accounts for the multiplicity of gazes and languages that characterise documentary art, for the richness of voices that tell of the time we live in its very unfolding before our eyes, for the instability of a social and political panorama that must be monitored by attentive and civilised eyes in order to give back to a wider audience than ever an experience of a new community.“
