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TRIBUTE TO ITALIAN CINEMA
Marco Amenta
Amenta started his career in Il Giornale di Sicilia as a photojournalist. In 1992 he moved to Paris where he obtained the Degree in Cinematography from the University Paris 8 and where worked for agencies and magazines, making many short films in film. During the war in ex-Yugoslavia he filmed the documentary Born in Bosnia for French TV, presented at the festival Palermocinema and another documentary in Cuba, Lettre de Cuba, winner of the French "Rouletabille" for young filmmakers. In 1995 he produced and directed the documentary film Diary of a Sicilian Rebel, official selection (out of competition) at the 54th Venice Film Festival. The film won 21 international awards and broadcast by RAI TV and 30 other TV stations worldwide. In 2004 wrote and directed the documentary The Last Godfather, an Italo-French coproduction, with Mediterranean Films and ARTE France, sold to television in Norway, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Ireland and many other countries. Marco Amenta won the Script Development award at The Tribeca Film Festival in 2009 for Banker to the Poor
KYMATA film festival will screen a feature film ANNA (2023) and a documentary Diary of a Sicilian Rebel(1995).
Ennio: The Maestro is a lively, absorbing documentary about the Academy-award winning Italian composer whose music is featured in hundreds of movies, including A Fistful of Dollars (1964), Kill Bill (2003), The Mission (1987), The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966), The Untouchables (1987), The Hateful Eight (2016), and Cinema Paradiso (1989).
Giuseppe Tornatore, director of the beloved Cinema Paradiso, turns his camera on his longtime collaborator Ennio Morricone (1928 – 2020) in a moving and comprehensive profile of the indefatigable composer. Tornatore's documentary portrait explores the breadth of the maestro's career, from his early Italian pop songs to the fistful of unforgettable film scores that he wrote, including The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, The Thing, Days of Heaven, and hundreds of others. This examination thoughtfully captures insightful commentary from Morricone's closest collaborators and contemporaries, featuring testimonies from artists and directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Marco Bellocchio, Giuliano Montaldo, Dario Argento, Clint Eastwood, Joan Baez, Quentin Tarantino, and more.
Ennio: The Maestro affords the master one last chance to recount his career and deconstruct the artistic process that led him to win two Academy Awards and author over 500 unforgettable soundtracks.
TRIBUTE TO VITTORIO DE SETTA
10 short films made by Vittorio De Seta between 1954 and 1959 in southern Italy. True testimonies of the past, these exceptional works produced with few means place the director between the documentary filmmaking of Robert Flaherty and the modern anthropological cinema of Jean Rouch. Whether peasants, miners, fishermen or shepherds, Vittorio De Seta agrees to capture the hard work of ancestral trades with lyricism and to the rhythm of popular songs.
The Time of the Swordfish (1954 – Colors – 10 mins)
When the fine weather returns, the men go swordfish fishing in the Strait of Messina...
Islands of Fire (1954 – Colors – 9 mins)
To the north of Sicily, Stromboli and the Aeolian Islands rise above the sea, threatening human life...
Soufrière (1955 – Colors – 9 mn)
The center of Sicily is full of sulfur mines. An invisible tragedy is playing out in the bowels of the earth...
Easter in Sicily (1956 – Colors – 8 mins)
At Easter, the death and resurrection of Christ are re-enacted in the villages around Messina, Caltanissetta and Enna…
Peasants of the sea (1956 – Colors – 9 mn)
Off the Sicilian coast, fishermen await the tuna which, for millennia, has followed the same route...
Golden Parable (1955 – Colors – 9 mn)
The harvest in inner Sicily. Under overwhelming heat, we finally reap the fruits of a year of hard work...
Fishing Boats (1958 – Colors – 10 mins)
Fishermen brave the waves between Sicily and Africa. In the event of a storm, they take shelter on the island of Lampedusa…
Shepherds of Orgosolo (1958 – Colors – 10 mn)
On Mount Orgosolo, in Sardinia, rare shepherds guide their flocks in a harsh climate...
A day in Barbagie (1958 – Colors – 9 mn)
The shepherds left with their herds, the women worked in the village and took care of the wood, the fields and the bread...
The Forgotten (1959 – Colors – 17 mins)
In Calabria, the mountain road comes to an abrupt end: you have to walk 15 kilometers to get to Alessandria del Carretto. When winter is over, the village comes back to life on the occasion of the "Fir Festival", an ancestral pagan tradition...