9:00 am
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THE EMBROIDERED POSTCARD
Children and adults alike transform old postcards from Lessinia with needle and thread, giving them a new life. With help from Sofia Corsato of Il Filo di Sofia, participants learn basic embroidery techniques, turning mountains into cakes and stone houses into funny or scary faces. And in the end, why not send your personalized postcard to someone special?
9:45 am
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FERMENTATION TECHNIQUES WITH PLANTS
Discover and try cultivating and preserving “good” bacteria using the Thai Nam Mak fermentation technique. Each participant produces their own bacteria using herbs and wild fruits from Lessinia, with hands-on guidance from Paolo Oggiano, chef and expert in Thai Buddhist fermentation.
3:30 pm
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RENÉ VA ALLA GUERRA
RENÉ GOES TO WAR
Luca Ferri, Morgan Menegazzo, Mariachiara Pernisa / 19 min / 2024 / Italy, Slovenia
René lives in a house in the Slovenian mountains. He spends his holidays alone in the woods, among the remains of abandoned bunkers from the Second World War. He loves to build rudimentary wooden weapons and imagines defending himself from an enemy attack, playing a game of combining and reworking historical evocations with current events.
IBUKA, JUSTICE
Justice Rutikara / 23 min / 2024 / Italian premiere / Canada
Rwanda, 1994. A young couple welcomes the birth of their child. They call him Justice because justice is increasingly rare in their country. In a climate of growing tension, a bloody civil war breaks out and the persecution of the Tutsis begins. The two parents flee abroad, ensuring a future for their child who, as an adult, will tell their story.
DASHT MIKHANAD
THE PLAIN SINGS
Gita Feizi / 14 min / 2024 / Iran (Islamic Republic of)
When she takes the sheep out to pasture, Zhina, age thirteen, gives free reign to her passion—singing. But her father is not enthusiastic and thinks only of finding her a husband. When one of the sheep is killed in an accident, Zhina takes off her headscarf and shepherd’s trousers and walks away.
THU GUI ME
DEAR MOM
Hà Lệ Diễm / 17 min / 2024 / Italian premiere / Vietnam
Song, a little girl of Hmong ethnicity, lives with her younger brother and father in the mountains of Vietnam. Her mother has been gone for years; she fled to China to start a new life. The little girl writes a sweet and heartbreaking letter asking her to come home.
