Clipper Media brings two new documentaries to the Bif&st – Bari International Film Festival, exploring from different angles the relationship between people, landscape and tradition.
The programme opens on Monday 23 March at 6:00 pm at AncheCinema with Devozioni (special screening, out of competition), the latest film by Gianfranco Pannone. Shot in the Apennine region of Lucania, the documentary follows figures who are guardians of an increasingly rare sense of the sacred: a Franciscan convent at risk of closure, a poet who built a sanctuary, two brothers retracing Pasolini’s footsteps, a miraculously healed child, a singer researching ancient folk melodies. Against a backdrop of devotional processions, wind turbines and silence, Pannone goes in search of a spirituality that our times seem to have lost.
The following day, Tuesday 24 March at 7:00 pm at MultiCinema Galleria, Su Maistu by Gianfranco Cabiddu screens in competition in the “Per il cinema italiano” section. The film is a biographical portrait of Luigi Lai, ninety-three years old and the greatest living interpreter of the launeddas, the ancient Sardinian instrument recognised by UNESCO. A journey from Sardinia to New York, from Ireland to Scotland, spanning decades of music and extraordinary encounters with artists including Paolo Fresu, Omar Sosa, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Cristina Pato.
Ni Primera Ni Dama will also compete in the Extr’A section of the 35th FESCAAAL – Festival of African, Asian and Latin American Cinema in Milan, with the official announcement expected on 9 March.
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