Competition BFFB38
VIET AND NAM (129 Min.) | 15:30 | Capitol 1
Nam and Viet love each other. Both are miners, working 1000 meters below ground where danger awaits and darkness prevails. Coal earns them a living, while at the same time polluting the land and the sea. When Nam decides to leave the country via an agent who smuggles people in shipping containers, it causes a rift between his love for Viet and his desires for his own future.
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KHARTOUM (81 Min.) | 16:00 | Capitol 2
Five lives, one city… the fate of a nation. Five Sudanese characters from the metropolis of Khartoum: a civil servant, a tea lady, a resistance committee volunteer, and two street boys all in search of freedom, have their stories unexpectedly woven together through animated dreams, street revolutions and a civil war.
In presence of Giovanna Stopponi, Frank Albers (producers).
FOCUS Taiwan
STRANGERS EYES (125 Min.) | 18:00 | Club 3
After the mysterious disappearance of their little girl, a young couple starts receiving strange videos, discovering that someone has been filming their daily life. The police put the house under surveillance to catch the voyeur, but the family begins to crumble as secrets come to light under the relentless gaze of eyes observing them from every angle.
In presence of Stefano Centini (producer).
BFFB Special
DREAMS (110 Min.) | 21:00 | Capitol 1
Pupil Johanne develops a growing emotional bond with a teacher who opens the doors of her home to her and listens carefully to her questions and thoughts. Johanne's intimate notes about her first love, which she confides in her diary, lead to friction within her family and cause her mother and grandmother to rethink the reality of their own lives.
In presence of Dag Johan Haugerud (director).
Competition BFFB38
BALENTES (70 Min.) | 21:15 | Capitol 2
Based on an event that really happened in Sardinia in 1940, against the backdrop of fascism and on the eve of the Second World War, the film tells of the theft of some horses from a military farm. The protagonists are two boys, Ventura e Michele, aged 11 and 14. Their intentions are completely idealistic: free the horses so that they do not die in war.
In presence of Giovanni Columbu (director).
