Z-Power

I am Greta
2022-03-19 15:30 - 17:30 (Europe/Rome) | Cineteca Milano Metropolis, Via Oslavia 8, Paderno Dugnano (MI), 20037, Italia
By Nathan Grossman, with Greta Thunberg. Documentary. Sweden, 2020, 97′.

In August 2019, skippers Boris Hermann and Pierre Casiraghi travel by sailboat to New York City. Having set off from Plymouth in the UK, they crossed the Atlantic to accompany Greta Thunberg, her father Svante and filmmaker Nathan Grossman to the UN climate summit, where the young activist was invited to speak. Swedish documentary filmmaker Nathan Grossman has been following her for exactly one year, since her first solo strike outside the Stockholm parliament. Twelve months in which the girl, born in 2003, has faced exceptional media exposure, a necessary condition for bringing her ecological appeal to the attention of world politics.

Quo vadis, Aida?
2022-03-20 21:00 - 23:00 | Cinema Astoria Lerici, Via Nino Gerini 40, Lerici (SP), 19032, Italia
By Jasmila Zbanic. Bosnia-Herzegovina, Austria, Romania, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, France, Norway, 2020, 103′.

July 1995. Aida, a native Bosnian, teaches English and works as an interpreter in a UN base in the hot days before the Serbian army occupies Srebrenica. But the international protection system, managed by the Dutch military hierarchy, is proving increasingly fragile and inadequate in the face of the advancing Mladic troops. The refugee situation becomes increasingly dramatic and Aida finds herself caught between two fires, in a desperate attempt to save her family and fellow citizens from grave danger.

Quo vadis, Aida?
2022-03-20 21:00 - 23:00 | Cinema Garibaldi Carrara, Via Verdi 15C, Carrara (MS), 54033, Italia

The Earth is Blue as an Orange
2022-03-22 20:30 - 22:30 | Cinema Edera, Via A. Radaelli 14, Treviso, 31100, Italia
By Iryna Tsilyk. Ukraine, Lithuania, 2020, 74′.

Hanna, a single mother, and her four children live on the front line of the Donbass war zone in Ukraine. While the outside world is made up of bombings and chaos, the family manages to keep their home as a safe haven, full of life and full of light. Each member of the family has a passion for cinema, motivating them to make a film inspired by their wartime lives. The creative process raises the question of what power the magical world of cinema might have in times of disaster. How to imagine war through fiction? For Hanna and the children, turning trauma into a work of art is the best way to remain human.
Original version with Italian subtitles

The Earth is Blue as an Orange
2022-03-24 20:30 - 22:30 | Multisala Ariston, Via Principe Amedeo 20, Mantova, 46100, Italia
By Iryna Tsilyk. Ukraine, Lithuania, 2020, 74′.

Hanna, a single mother, and her four children live on the front line of the Donbass war zone in Ukraine. While the outside world is made up of bombings and chaos, the family manages to keep their home as a safe haven, full of life and full of light. Each member of the family has a passion for cinema, motivating them to make a film inspired by their wartime lives. The creative process raises the question of what power the magical world of cinema might have in times of disaster. How to imagine war through fiction? For Hanna and the children, turning trauma into a work of art is the best way to remain human.
Original version with Italian subtitles
Screening organised in collaboration with Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Italy, Embassy of the Republic of Ukraine in Italy, Institute of Lithuanian Culture and Z-Power-Young People Back to the Movies. Admission € 5,00. Proceeds will be donated to charity for the Ukraine cause.

Flee
2022-03-24 20:30 - 22:30 | Cinema Edera, Via A. Radaelli 14, Treviso, 31100, Italia
By Jonas Poher Rasmussen. Denmark, France, Sweden, Norway, 2021, 89′.

The story of Amin, a 36-year-old man who fled his homeland of Kabul at a very young age to find refuge in Copenhagen. Amin, now a successful academic, about to marry the love of his life, still hides his past as a refugee. No one knows who he really is, not even his fiancé. But this facade could crumble at any minute.
For the first time in years, however, Amin decides to reveal himself and tell the story of his odyssey to his best friend. After twenty years, he seems to have finally understood that in order to fully conquer the future he so badly wants, he first needs to confront his painful past.

The Earth is Blue as an Orange
2022-03-24 21:00 - 23:00 | Cinema Nuovo, Viale dei Mille 39, Varese, 21100, Italia

The Earth is Blue as an Orange
2022-03-24 21:00 - 23:00 | Il Nuovo La Spezia Monosala, Via Cristoforo Colombo 99, La Spezia, 19121, Italia

Bad Poems
2022-03-25 21:00 - 23:00 | Cinema Nuovo, Viale dei Mille 39, Varese, 21100, Italia
By Gábor Reisz. Hungary, 2018, 97’
Thirty-three-year-old Tamás, known as Tami, is left by his fiancée Anna, a scholarship student in Paris, abruptly interrupting what appears to have been a happy relationship. Unprepared to react to the shock, Tamás returns to his family in his native Budapest to recuperate.
Original version with Italian subtitles.

Around the World in 80 Days
2022-03-26 15:30 - 17:30 | Cineteca Milano Metropolis, Via Oslavia 8, Paderno Dugnano (MI), 20037, Italia
By Samuel Tourneux. Animation. France, Belgium, 2021, 82′.

The young monkey Passepartout, locked up in his room, dreams of the day when he will be able to venture, backpack on his shoulders, in the footsteps of his idol, the explorer Juan Frog De Leon, holder of the record for going round the world in the shortest possible time: ninety days. In the meantime, however, he lives in a land populated by shrimps, where there is little room for adventure, at least until the day Phileas Frog arrives, riding a surfboard in flip-flops. Friendly and boisterous, chased by the female gerbil Fix, who accuses him of having stolen ten million clams, Frog finds no better way out of his predicament than to promise to break the historic record by circumnavigating the globe in just eighty days. This is the opportunity that Passepartout has always been waiting for, and for which it is even worth running away from home.

Bad Poems
2022-03-31 20:30 - 22:30 | Cinema Edera, Via A. Radaelli 14, Treviso, 31100, Italia

Easy Living
2022-03-31 21:00 - 23:00 | Il Nuovo La Spezia Monosala, Via Cristoforo Colombo 99, La Spezia, 19121, Italia
By Orso Miyakawa, Peter Miyakawa. Comedy. Italy, 2019, 93′.
Ventimiglia. It is here that we meet Don, an American tennis instructor who seduces ladies over 50 and has a passion for painting; Camilla, a drug and alcohol smuggler; and Brando, her 14-year-old brother. The three will end up joining forces to help Elvis, an illegal migrant, cross into France to reunite with his pregnant wife.

Futura
2022-04-01 21:00 - 23:00 | Cinema Nuovo, Viale dei Mille 39, Varese, 21100, Italia
By Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher. Documentary +13. Italy, 2021, 105′.
At the beginning of 2020, three directors embarked on a grand tour of Italy, asking young men and women from all over the country what their idea of the future was. Alice Rohrwacher, Francesco Munzi and Pietro Marcello travelled across the country, stopping both in the big cities – Milan, Genoa, Rome, Naples and Palermo – and in the countryside and small towns, meeting young people from schools and universities, professional courses, sports clubs, choirs, street demonstrations and workplaces. The testimonies collected form a picture of a country that does not listen or pay enough attention to young people, and devotes very few economic and organisational resources to them.

The Prince's Voyage
2022-04-02 15:30 - 17:30 | Cineteca Milano Metropolis, Via Oslavia 8, Paderno Dugnano (MI), 20037, Italia
By Jean-François Laguionie, Xavier Picard. Animation. France, Luxemburg, 2019, 77′.

In a world where apes talk and live like humans, an old primate is found on a beach: he is wounded, lost, and most importantly, he comes from another world and is the fallen prince of an unknown nation. Considered to be a valuable subject for research, the old prince is taken into custody and hidden by little Tom and his parents, two researchers who have always been convinced of the existence of other forms of intelligent life and are therefore excluded from the rigid academy of science. As the days go by, the ”prisoner” and the child develop a deep relationship, which leads them both to escape from the studio and venture into the big city.

Futura
2022-04-04 17:00 - 19:00 | Il Cinemino/Associazione Seiseneca, Via Seneca 6, Milano, 20135, Italia

Anthropocene
2022-04-05 16:30 - 18:30, 2022-04-06 21:00 - 23:00 | Cinema Mignon, Via Martiri della Liberazione 131, Chiavari (GE), 16043, Italia
By Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, Nicholas de Pencier. Documentary. Canada, 2018, 87′.
A documentary about the impact of human activities on our planet. A journey across six continents, to juxtapose the different ways in which humans are exploiting Earth’s resources and changing the Earth as never before, more than natural phenomena do.

Khorshid
2022-04-05 17:00 - 19:00 | Il Cinemino/Associazione Seiseneca, Via Seneca 6, Milano, 20135, Italia
By Majid Majidi. Iran, 2020, 120’.
In the criminal underworld of Tehran, the most necessary labour comes from the exploitation of minors, with children called upon to carry out mechanical work and assorted petty thefts to support themselves or to help families in difficulty. Among them are a group of four friends: Ali, Mamad, Reda and Abofazl, the latter being the brother of Zahra, who also works as a mugger in the underground. The opportunity for a more important assignment for the four comes with the promise of a treasure hidden underground and accessible only from within the walls of the School of the Sun, a local institution. The boys must thus pretend to be interested in resuming their studies and secretly dig a tunnel to find the treasure.

The Earth is Blue as an Orange
2022-04-05 20:30 - 22:30 | Cinema Rondinella, Via Giacomo Matteotti 425, Sesto San Giovanni (MI), 20099, Italia

Bad Poems
2022-04-06 17:00 - 19:00 | Il Cinemino/Associazione Seiseneca, Via Seneca 6, Milano, 20135, Italia

Watermark
2022-04-07 17:00 - 19:00 | Il Cinemino/Associazione Seiseneca, Via Seneca 6, Milano, 20135, Italia
By Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky. Documentary. Canada, 2014, 92′.
A film that shows how water, the fundamental element for human existence, has been used but also wasted.

Dating Amber
2022-04-07 20:30 - 22:30 | Multisala Ariston, Via Principe Amedeo 20, Mantova, 46100, Italia
By David Freyne. Ireland, 2020, 92′.

The film is set in 1995 in Ireland, where two teenagers, the outsiders Eddie and Amber, decide to hide their sexuality from the rural Irish town where they live, pretending to be a heterosexual couple. Amber wants to escape a life overshadowed by her father’s suicide to lead a lesbian punk lifestyle in a more liberal environment. She is saving money to move to London by secretly renting out caravans to teenage couples who need some privacy in a trailer park run by her mother. Eddie is not sure about his sexuality and intends to follow his insensitive and often absent father into the Irish army.

Original version with Italian subtitles

Bad Poems
2022-04-07 20:30 - 22:30, 2022-04-08 18:30 - 20:30 | Cinema Rondinella, Via Giacomo Matteotti 425, Sesto San Giovanni (MI), 20099, Italia

L'acqua insegna la sete - Storia di classe
2022-04-07 20:30 - 22:30 | Cinema Edera, Via A. Radaelli 14, Treviso, 31100, Italia
By Valerio Jalongo. Italy, Switzerland, 2020, 76′.

15 years after making a video diary with on of his classes, an old, retired teacher goes in search of his former students. Their reunion will be full of emotional discoveries.

Khorshid
2022-04-07 21:00 - 23:00 | Il Nuovo La Spezia Monosala, Via Cristoforo Colombo 99, La Spezia, 19121, Italia

I am Greta
2022-04-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Il Cinemino/Associazione Seiseneca, Via Seneca 6, Milano, 20135, Italia

Dating Amber
2022-04-08 21:00 - 23:00 | Cinema Nuovo, Viale dei Mille 39, Varese, 21100, Italia

Josep
2022-04-09 15:30 - 17:30 | Cineteca Milano Metropolis, Via Oslavia 8, Paderno Dugnano (MI), 20037, Italia
By Aurel. Animation +13. France, Spain, Belgium, 2020, 71′.

The account of the adventurous life of Josep Bartoli, a Catalan illustrator who after the civil war in Spain fled to France in 1939 to escape Franco’s dictatorship. Along with many other Spanish Republican refugees, he was sent to concentration camps. Witness to this terrible time is the Frenchman Serge, a camp guard who had not yet become accustomed to the horror. Many years later he will tell the story of his relationship with Bartoli to his young nephew Valentin, who will be captivated by it.

Original version with Italian subtitles

The Prince's Voyage
2022-04-11 17:00 - 19:00 | Il Cinemino/Associazione Seiseneca, Via Seneca 6, Milano, 20135, Italia
