From North Vietnam to Brocon Pass, from Lampedusa to Congo, from the Alps to the non-place of the cruise ship: eight cinematic glances at the world around us. Naturae is a selection of short documentary films that are an invitation to reflect on our relationship with natural landscapes and those we shape, on the multiple representations of nature, the environment and their exploitation. About how we interpret, live, cross, build and destroy nature.

AUSPICIO

by Elena Goatelli, Angel Esteban

Country: Italy
Year: 2019
Genre: documentary
Lenght: 14’28”
Language: ITA / SUB ENG

An auspice, since ancient times, is the observation of the flight of birds to read the present and discover the future. Every year Francesca, a scientist and ornithologist, analyses and studies the migrating birds flying through the Brocon Pass ringing station in the Italian Dolomites, showing us that today, more than ever, our survival depends on our ability to understand the message the birds bring to us.

LA BUONA NOVELLA

by Sebastiano Luca Insinga

Country: Italy
Year: 2019
Genre: documentary
Lenght: 15’00
Language: ITA / SUB ENG

When the climate in the Mediterranean returns mild, boats loaded with migrants leave from the coasts of Africa and Asia trying to reach Europe, the "promised land". One summer night, Bochra arrived on a beach in Sicily with over 130 people on board. They all soon fled. And Bochra remained alone in limbo between sea and land… until the tourists arrived.

HOA

by Marco Zuin

Country: Italy
Year: 2018
Genre: documentary
Lenght: 20’06”
Language: Vietnamita / SUB ITA

This documentary follows the daily life of Hoa, a Dao ethnic minority healer living in a rural village in North Vietnam. Hoa collects medicinal plants in the forest, safeguarding its biodiversity, and she heals the community with the help of her daughter Chiem and her family. While the forests are under threat of deforestation due to rapid development, Hoa keeps transmitting the ancient female tradition of herbal medicine practices.

NATURE: ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

by Sebastian Mulder

Country: Paesi Bassi
Year: 2016
Genre: documentary
Lenght: 21’55”
Language: no dialogues

Artificial grass on the balcony, a meeting hall with a forest wallpaper, a palm beach in the waiting room of the dentist. This short documentary examines the role of nature simulations in our society. To what extent does artificial nature satisfies the city dwellers and where are this simulations still falling short? Will artificial nature ever replace real nature?

MACHINI

by Frank Mukunday, Tétshim

Country: Democratic Republic of Congo, Belgium
Year: 2019
Genre: Animation/documentary
Lenght: 9’
Language: FRA

Through habit and the force of machines we have become sleepwalking godforsaken creatures, guinea pigs for history and machines.

RIAFN

by Hannes Lang

Country: Germany
Year: 2019
Genre: documentary
Lenght: 30’
Language: no dialogues

Riafn is a cinematic journey into the sound landscape of the Alps. Language, singing, as well as the calls and orders of the shepherds merge in the creation of a musical film between artistic ideal and documentary realism.

TUTTO COMPRESO

by Corina Schwingruber Ilic

Country: Svizzera
Anno: 2018
Durata: 10′
Genere: documentario
Lingua: senza dialoghi

A giant cruise ship, its crew, its passengers. An inexhaustible generator of entertainment where no desire can remain unfulfilled, a world designed in every single detail that leaves behind satisfied customers and polluted seas.

WISHING WELL

by Sylvia Schedelbauer

Country: Germany
Year: 2018
Lenght: 13′
Genre: sperimental
Language: no dialogues

Gushing colors. A time disjointed, yet synchronous. A transcendent turn, a quest for agency, a reunion with currents of the forest.

Naturae is part of Derive Urbane 2020 project supported by Fondazione Caritro

Ph Still frame dal film Nature: all rights reserved by Sebastian Mulder