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Let’s get to the heart of the Lovers Film Festival: the program scheduled for October 24th

(Turin, Cinema Massimo, National Cinema Museum)

This Saturday, October 24th, let’s get to the hearth of the planning of Lovers Film Festival, at Cinema Massimo of the National Cinema Museum in Turin.

The director and artistic director Luca Tommassini will be the guest of the talk with Vladimir Luxuria Una vita in movimento at 20:30 pm in Cabiria room. He will retrace his international successful career as dancer and choreographer through his videos and films.

The tickets for all the shows can be bought exclusively online on the festival website.

The complete program scheduled for Saturday, October 24th

14:30 pm (Soldati room)

Real Lovers

La fabrique du consentement (Consent Factory: Lesbo-queer Perspectives) by Mathilde Capone • CANADA, 2020, HD, 75’

Through the complicated issue of consent, sixteen lesbian-queer people try to sketch a complex reasoning on the sexual expression and on sexuality starting with the issue of consent. Into a deep introspection of their intimacy, the protagonists ask questions, get upset, see the funny side of a situation and sketch other possible reasonings trying to imagine some good practice starting with the language to reach new modes of experience.

15:30 pm (Rondolino room)

All the Lovers

Encore performance of Adam

15:30 pm (Cabiria room)

All the Lovers

Las mil y una (One in a Thousand) by Clarisa Navas • GERMANY, 2020, DCP, 120’

The 17-year-old Iris has been expelled from school and spends all her days in the street with her cousins making time pass, playing basketball, hiding in huge buildings in a run-down suburb. The adult world and the world of teenagers seem to be so far away from each other. When Iris meets Renata, they get closer and closer and their knowing becomes a safe space in an uncertain context, allowing Iris to make the step between carelessness and awareness.

15:30 pm (Soladati room)

All the Lovers

Welcome to Chechnya by David France • USA, 2020, DCP, 107’

Welcome to Chechnya tells the politics and anti-LGBTQ persecutions that are now active in the Russian republic in Chechnya.

The very brave investigation carried out by the director David France (How to Survive a Plague, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson) takes the direct testimonies by LGBTQ activists who run into an unimaginable danger to save the victims from a campaign full of torture and brutality.

17:25 pm (Rondolino room)

Future Lovers

Mankind by Layke Anderson • UK, 2020, H, 13’

Will is determined to drop everything to participate in a colonial project on Mars. Matt is not willing to let him leave without attempting to correct him.

Stray Dogs Come Out at Night by Hamza Bangash • PAKISTAN/UK/CANADA, 2020, DCP, 13’

Iqbal, immigrant and sex worker, doesn’t manage to come to terms with his illness. He convinces his uncle to take a trip to the beach, in desperate need of pause everything. In the background there’s the sea from Arabia.

Mani by Ashkan Mehri • IRAN, 2019, DCP, 15’

Mani is 12 and is beginning to deal with her puberty, crossing environments of an upper-middle-class Teheran, dominated by models of lumbering masculinity that at the same time is irresistibly attractive.

Hanging By A Thread by Russell Atkinson • UK, 2020, HD, 2’

When the fears, loneliness and irrational thoughts take over, what are the threads to which we are suspended? How many of them?

Panteres (Panthers) by Erika Sánchez • SPAIN, 2020, HD, 22’

Joana and Nina live with great freedom a relationship that for their 13 years is considered very trivial from their classmates. Nina is introverted and touchy, instead Joana is ready to free herself from everything and everyone.

Vaginas by Andreia Dobrota • NETHERLAND, 2020, HD, 1’

A collage of vaginas, all different and colorful. A visual hymn to the beauty of the human anatomy, in every respect, in every form.

Letter To My Mother by Amin(A) Maher • GERMANY, 2019, HD, 19’

A heartfelt letter to say to the mother the most painful secret. Amin, who in 2002 was the little protagonist in Tendi Kiarostami, is today a transgender director who tries to make his voice heard, understand and be understood.

Sirens by Juli Tudisco • HUNGARY, 2019, HD, 4’

On a balcony, a young bride-to-be sits thinking about her imminent wedding. She observes four free and happy girls (and a dolphin) who live not caring about the conservative pressures of the society.

18:00 pm (Cabiria room)

All the Lovers

Cicada by Matthew Fifer e Kieran Mulcare • USA, 2019, DCP, 93’

After a series of unsuccessful and embarrassing meetings with some women, Ben, a bisexual young boy, returns to the gay world and develops an intense relationship with Sam, a black man struggling with deep wounds. During the summer, their intimacy increases and Ben’s past comes to light. It’s a love movie, of great suffering but also of great joy with two actors who relive parts of their own experiences. A sensual and deep movie, a debut to keep an eye on.

19:15 pm (Soldati room)

All the Lovers

Encore performance of El Cazador

19:45 pm (Rondolino room)

All the Lovers

Alice Júnior by Gil Baroni • BRAZIL, 2019, DCP, 8’

Alice Júnior is a very young transgender student who spends the most part of her free time being a youtuber. After moving with the dad in a small provincial town and changing high school, Alice has to deal with the new place, trying to debunk her prejudice, in order to reach her greatest wish: getting her fist kiss.

20:30 pm (Cabiria room)

Special event

And then We Danced by Levan Akin • Sweden, 2019, 113'

The rigid, conservative and homophobic world of the traditional Georgian dance is the setting for the story of a young dancer in difficulty who faces the challenge of his life, when he falls in love with an ambitious rival who threats of destroying everything he’s battled. A passionate story about growing set in a Tiblisi in balance between modernity and conservation.

At the opening: Una vita in movimento! The director and artistic director Luca Tommassini talks with Vladimir Luxuria retracing his career.

22:00 pm (Rondolino room)

Special event

Ubbidire (Obey) by Giuseppe Bucci • ITALY, 2020, HD, 12’

There’s a big age difference between the two actors who play on the stage the roles of emperor and slave. In everyday life they are a couple in crisis and the things are diametrically opposed. The older is voluntarily involved in a stalled marriage, the youngest in a joyless sexual bulimia. The reading of a famous letter from Plinio will give the way out. Or it will give a new entry.

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