After last year’s forced stop, festivals, events, fairs and reviews are back. The auteur cinema is also restarting with an appointment that celebrates ten years this year: from 4 to 12 November “FrontDoc” is staged in Aosta, a review of frontier cinema that investigates the more peripheral and less controlled areas, where between contaminations and experiments, they develop changes in society. An event that to celebrate the shooting is particularly rich: 24 films in competition including 16 Italian premieres, with films from 16 different countries.
Born in 2008 as a showcase for documentary cinema in Valle d’Aosta, FrontDoc has grown consolidating itself as an International Frontier Film Festival, thus gaining a place of reference in the European panorama of events dedicated to documentary cinema.
«After the forced stop of last year FrontDoc is back stronger than ever, with 7 intense days of programming that will touch on hot topical issues – says Nora De Marchi, member of the Steering Committee -. We always believe in a democratically participated and organized festival, capable of bringing culture and social reality into contact, attention to the territory and an international vocation ».
It will begin by paying homage to one of the most original voices of Italian experimental cinema, Michelangelo Buffa, star of “Le Filmeur” by Daniele Mantione, to close with the musical story of Kina, told in “If I Won If I Lost” by Gian Luca Rossi: these are two Aosta Valley stories, two films screened, in collaboration with Film Commission VdA, which after the success obtained outside its borders arrive for the first time in the Aosta Valley.
There will be meetings with authors and guests, including Sabina Guzzanti, in-depth appointments on current events, special events.
From the big screen to exhibitions, from Valle d’Aosta to Trentino: the new exhibition “Selvatici e salvifici. Mario Rigoni Stern’s Animals ”staged at Palazzo delle Albere in Trento and promoted by the Muse of Trento and the Mart of Rovereto. Inaugurated on 22 October, the exhibition will remain open until 27 February. Foxes, bears, grouse, deer, badgers, partridges, eagles: many animals born from the pen of the great writer and imagined by about fifteen artists who work in the environmental field.
A world that, for Rigoni Stern, was “salvific” and “to be saved”.