ACE Settore Cinema
Responsabile: Isabel ASENSIO BERMEJO
Email: cinema@associazione-culturale-europea.eu
"To live together in the world means essentially that a world of things is between those who have it in common, as a table is located between those who sit around it; the world, like every in-between, relates and separates men at the same time"
Borders
Film review and conversations on contemporary times
The film review we propose centers on the concept of border, approached from many different perspectives. We will explore the geographical border, the political border, the social border, the subjective and lived border, the ecological border, the scientific and ethical border – to mention a few.
Through the movies we propose, as well as the conversations that will follow after each screening, we will explore what do these borders mark and which others they create, what consequences they have (and for whom) as well as what possibilities of encounters they might enable, depending on how they are practiced. Through these moments, we wish to open up a space to reflect on the deeply troubling times we live in.
Screening will take place in the evenings, in the Auditorium (Club House, Ispra). After the movie, we plan to dedicate some time to an open conversation, at times in dialogue with external guests. When an external guest is invited, we may plan to screen selected parts of the movie, in order to leave enough time for discussion. Entrance is free.
11 December, 2024 at 8pm
The Zone of Interest, 2023, 105 minutes
Directed by Jonathan Glazer
The film focuses on the life of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, who live with their family next to the concentration camp.
January 2025
The Swimmers, 2022, 134 minutes
Directed by Sally El-Hosaini
Based on a true story of two Syrian teenage refugees, the film narrates the vicissitudes of Yusra Martini and her sister Sarah Martini, from war-torn Syria to Rio 2016 Olympics.
February 2025
Salt of this sea, 2008, 109 minutes
Directed by Annemarie Jacir
The film tells the story of an American-born Palestinian woman, who heads to Israel and Palestine on a quest to reclaim her family’s home and money that were taken during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
With an external guest (to be confirmed).
February 2025
Waltz with Bashir, 2008, 90 minutes
Directed by Ari Folman
Animated war docudrama, it depicts Folman’s search for lost memories of his experience as an Israeli soldier during the 1982 Lebanon War and the Sabra and Shatila massacre.
With an external guest (to be confirmed)