Fifth day of the RIFF online on Mymovies.it! Tuesday 1st December is a day full of screenings!
At 6:20 pm, for the International Documentaries in Competition we will find “Darryl Jones: In the Blood” by Eric Hamburg, USA, 2020 (Italian premiere). A documentary on the extraordinary musician Darryl Jones, bassist of Miles Davis, Sting, Madonna and the Rolling Stones, also involved in political activism. The documentary tells the story of music and racism in America. Eric Hamburg produced, among others, “Nixon” and “Any Given Sunday” with Oliver Stone. He is currently working with Oliver Stone on another documentary project.
For the Feature Films in Competition, “Fires In The Dark” by Dominique Lienhard (France/Belgium, 2020) will be presented at 8:20 pm (European premiere): in an isolated village of the 17th Century, its inhabitants try to survive as they can.
The day of the festival will open and close with short films. At 4:20 pm the screenings of “In the Mirrors” by Merlin Camozzi, USA, 2020, a horror in strong colors and “Khoonab” by Mojtaba Ghasemi, Iran, 2020, starring a group of women running from a war zone with only one chance of salvation. “Love and Fifty Megatons” by Cornelius Schick, Germany, 2020, is a political and social satire film about an unusual love story in times of populism. “Nightwalkers” by Mark Pellington, USA, 2020, is a sci-fi and poetic representation of alienation, melancholy and existential identity: Alfie Allen, known for the role of Theon Greyjoy in Game of Thrones, is in the cast.
At 10:10 pm for the Italian Shorts section, “Costellazioni d’autunno” by Marco Iermanò will be presented. The short is his first challenge as a director. Already an award-winning actor, Marco Iermanò was directed by Giuseppe Tornatore in Baarìa and Michele Placido in Il grande sogno qui. Love, his birth, his life, his time. A young cook falls in love with an older man, a physics and astronomy researcher. Their story unfolds through four autumns. “Costellazioni d’autunno” is the first short to be distributed by Prime Video in Italy, in the US and in the UK. “Zheng” by Giacomo Sebastiani will be the second short of the evening. Starring a lonely Chinese boy, who has worked in Italy since he was a child. Torn between the rigor that work imposes on him and the desire to get in touch with his peers, Zheng will be called to make a choice. “Le piccole cose” by Gaia Altissimo & Luca Calvaresi, closes the screenings of the Italian shorts section: made thanks to the tenacity of a group of young artists who have joined their forces to get involved and participate in a project capable of mixing together different personalities and areas.
