9.00 p.m.
OPENING CEREMONY FOR THE Xth CINEMAMBIENTE FESTIVAL
Gaetano Capizzi, director of Cinemambiente, opens the festival

Encounter with: Charris Ford, protagonist of French Fries to Go

6.30 p.m.
Italian Documentary Competition
Encounter with film directors Simona Risi (Mbeubeus), Francesco Conversano, Nene Grignaffini (Il bravo gatto prende i topi)

8.30 p.m.
International Documentary Competition
Encounter with film director Micha X. Peled (China Blue)

10.30 p.m.
International Animation Cinema Competition
Encounter with film director Kathrin Gnorski (Global WARming)

3.00 p.m.
“Images and creativity: communicating our commitment”
Encounter on audiovisual communication aimed at protecting the environment and human rights
Speakers:
Martin Atkin, director of the Creative Department of Greenpeace International
Riccardo Noury, Communications director of the Italian Section of Amnesty International
Micha X. Peled, director of China Blue
Louis Fox, creative director of Free Range Studios
Gaia Chiti Strigelli, publishing manager of MTV Italia pro social sector
Sauro Mariani, MTV Italia marketing manager
Modera Marco Fratoddi, director of La Nuova Ecologia

6.00 p.m.
Focus on Human Rights /1967-2007: 40 years of occupation, 40 years of human rights’ violation
Encounter with film directorKamal Aljafari (AlsatehThe roof)

8.30 p.m.
Encounter with film director and producer Louis Fox

9.40 p.m.
Italian Documentary Competition
Encounter with film directors Giulio De Leo and Sandro Carnino (Vita da Ines)

10.00 p.m.
Panorama/ Ambient-azioni
Encounter with film directors Pietro Luzzati (Bedu), Tommaso Cerasuolo and Marco Fantozzi (Animalia)

9.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.
Turin and the right to asylum.
Conference organized by the Integarsi and Meta project
Ways to integrate refugees: from European “Equal” experiments to real local situations.

Inauguration of the photographic exhibition “5 minutes in my shoes”, short stories about refugees. Photographs by Elena Marioni

11.00 a.m.
Panorama/Ambient-azioni
Encounter with the painter Munù Actis Goretta and the film director Alberto Signetto (Il mare sul muro)

4.00 p.m.
Panorama/Right to asylum
Encounter and debate with:

Vittoria Castagneto, film director
Bienvenu Kasole, Astrid Galindo and Camino Galindo, leading characters in Equal Voices
Le Quyen Ngo Dinh, Resp. for Immigration and Asylum Caritas Diocesana di Roma
Daniela Di Capua, Project Leader of IntegRARsi/Italian Municipalities Association 

6.30 p.m.
Italian Documentary Competition
Encounter with Roy Paci and film directors Alessandro Gagliardo, Christian Consoli and Antonio Longo (13 variazioni su un tema barocco) 

8.30 p.m.
International Animation Cinema Competition
Encounter with film director Louis Fox (Backwards Hamburger)

International Documentary Competition
Encounter with film director Chris Paine (Who Killed the Electric Car)

9.30 a.m.
Ecokids – screenings for secondary schools
My Country, My Country (Usa, 2006, col, 90’) Laura Poitras

Encounter with
Doctor. Riyadh, Iraqi doctor (protagonist of the film My Country My Country) and Ahmed Dhia Abdulrazak, Mayes Mohand Abdulsatar, Sameer Hussein Salman, Iraqi witnesses.
With the support of the Italian Section of Amnesty International.

4.30 p.m.
Focus on Human Rights/1967-2007: 40 years of occupation, 40 years of human rights’ violation
Roundtable Speakers:

Kamal Aljafari, director of Alsateh, Palestine
Enas Muthaffar, director of East to West, Palestine
Shai Carmeli Pollak, director of Bil’in Habibti, Israe
Paolo Pobbiati, chairman of the Italian Section of Amnesty International

Coordinator: Iman Sabbah, reporter for Rai News24

8.30 p.m.
Panorama/ Ambient-azioni
Encounter with Charris Ford (activist and musician) and film director Dominique Loreau (Au gre du temps)

10.00 p.m.
Panorama/ Ambient-azioni
Encounter with film director Roberto Ghisu (Le città invivibili) and Antonio Bellia (Biciclette)

4.30 p.m.
Focus on Human Rights/ We won’t stand for torture
Encounter with film director Antonello De Leo and producer Floria Aprea (Guinea Pig).
Presented by Paolo Pobbiati, chairman of the Italian Section of Amnesty International

Italian Documentary Competition
Encounter with film directors Michele Mellara and Alessandro Rossi (Le vie dei farmaci)

6.30 p.m.
International Documentary Competition
Encounter with producer Eugenia Montiel Pagies (En el hoyo)

8.30 p.m.
International Documentary Competition
Encounter with Dr Riyadh, Iraqi doctor (protagonist of the film My Country My Country) and Ahmed Dhia Abdulrazak, Mayes Mohand Abdulsatar, Sameer Hussein Salman, Iraqi witnesses.

10.30 p.m.
International Documentary Competition
Encounter with film director Michael Taylor (The Great Warming)

4.30 p.m.
Focus on Human Rights/Baghdad, Guantánamo and beyond: terror and counter-terror Roundtable Speakers:
Ruhal Ahmed, former inmate of Guantánamo
Erik Gandini, film director of Gitmo
Line Halvorsen, film director of USA vs Al-Arian
Dr Riyadh, Iraqi doctor, protagonist of My Country My Country
Coordinator:Paolo Pobbiati, chairman of the Italian Section of Amnesty International

8.30 p.m.
Italian Documentary Competition
Encounter with film directors Andrea Zambelli (Mercancia) and Luca Pastore (Oma e chimica)

10.30 p.m.
Panorama/Nuff Global Films
Encounter with Daniel Alegi, coordinator of the Nuff Global project

9.00 p.m.
Work and environment
Encounter with Micha X. Peled (China Blue)

9.30 a.m.
“The cinema as an instrument to teach environmental conflicts”
Presentation and welcoming speech: Adriana Frijio (President of AIIG Piemonte), Gaetano Capizzi (CinemAmbiente). Introduction to viewing: Claudia Apostolo

Debate
Mauricio Torres, Sociologist, Researcher at San Paolo University, Brazil
Expert on the Amazon and especially on the Mangabal area. Maximum expert on environmental conflicts resulting from deforestation in the Amazon.

Egidio Dansero, Geographer, lecturer on Political and Economic Geography and Regional Development Geography at the Political Science Faculty of Turin University.

Massimo De Marchi, Geographer, researcher and lecturer of Social Geography at the Faculty of Educational Science at PaduaUniversity.

Cristiano Giorda, Geographer, researcher and lecturer of Geography and Geography Teaching Methodology at the Faculty of Educational Science at Turin University, member of the AIIG National Council.

Walter Ganapini, President of Greenpeace Italia

Stefania Di Campli, Director of MAIS

4.30 p.m.
Panorama/ Ambient-azioni
Encounter with film director Rovero Impiglia (Street Boulder – Arrampicatori Metropolitani)

6.30 p.m.
International Animation Cinema Competition
Encounter with film director Lucie Stamfestova (The fridge)

International Documentary Competition
Encounter with the producer Anastasia Skoumpri and film director Yorgos Avgeropoulos (Delta-Oil’s Dirty Business)

8.30 p.m.
International Documentary Competition
Encounter with film director Ray McCormack (A Crude Awakening) and Luca Mercalli, climatologist

10.30 p.m.
Italian Documentary Competition
Encounter with film directors Antonio Martino (Pancevo - Mrvta Grad) and Paolo Muran (La vita come viaggio aziendale)

9.00 a.m.
As part of the Month dedicated to the European Ecolabel, the Province of Turin and ARPA Piemonte present an educational seminar on green tenders and the European Ecolabel
Speakers:

Gaetano Capizzi, director of the CinemambienteFestival

Marco Glisoni, Arpa Piemonte, Environmental Education

Valeria Veglia, Province of Turin, Sustainable Development Area and Environmental Planning

Monica Sciano, Municipality of Turin

4.00 p.m.
Panorama/Ambient/azioni
On the occasion of the screening of Burkina Faso: protezione dell’ambiente e riciclaggio,encounter and debate with representatives from the Piemonte Region, the Province of Turin, the Municipality of Turin and LVIA, promoters of the project “Proteggere l’ambiente valorizzando i rifiuti” supporting the creation of equal opportunities for women and the war on want by recycling plastic in one of the poorest countries in the world.
The video was produced by the International Labour Organization (ILO Geneva) for the American Broadcasting Network CNN.

6.30 p.m.
Focus on Human Rights/Baghdad, Guantánamo and beyond: terror and counter-terror
Encounter with film director Line Halvorsen (USA Vs. Al-Arian)

8.45 p.m.
Panorama/Superottimisti
Encounter with the directors of the Superottimisti project

10.30 p.m.
Panorama/Bicycle Film Festival
Encounter with Giovanni Pesce, Organizer of the Italian edition of the Bicycle Film Festival

10.30 p.m.
Panorama/Sos Live Earth Short Films
Encounter with the producer Elise Rappoport and film director Rupert Jones (Think- What does it take to change a habit)

Work and environment
Encounter with film director Luca Pastore and actor Beppe Rosso (Oma e Chimica)

2.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.
Seminar on “Environmental conflicts”
The study of environmental conflicts in the developing countries, Dott. Massimo De Marchi Geography Department, PaduaUniversity.

4.00 p.m.
Italian Documentary Competition
Encounter with film directors Andrea Balossi Restelli and Bruno Chiaravallotti (Dr. Mick e la foresta)

5.00 p.m.
International Documentary Competition
Encounter with Gianfranco Bettin, writer and regional councillor for the Veneto Region, one of the protagonists in the filmIl mio paese

8.00 p.m.
Award ceremony for the winners with the participation of the Minister for the Environment and the Protection of Land and Sea, the Right HonourableAlfonso Pecoraro Scanio

4.00 p.m.
International Animation Cinema Competition
Encounter with Valdemar Lacerda (Valdeco), composer of the score to Consumidouro

6.30 p.m.
Focus on Human Rights/1967-2007: 40 years of occupation, 40 years of human rights’ violation
Bil’in e la sua lotta contro il muro/ Bil’in and its fight against the wallEncounter with activists from the Palestinian village, after the Israeli High Court of Justice ruled that the wall be moved to restore part of the farmlands to the village.
Speakers:
Ahmed A. M. Khatib and Abdalfatah I. H. Burnat, inhabitants of Bil’in and anti-wall activists.
Shai Carmeli Pollak, film director of Bil’in Habibti and activist in the anti-wall and anti-occupation movement.
Coordinator: Paola Ramello, in charge of the Focus on Human Rights section

2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.
Seminar on “Environmental conflicts”
Environmental conflicts in the Amazon: a sociological approach, Mauricio Torres, (S. Paolo University, Brazil)

2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.
Seminar on “Environmental conflicts”
Environmental conflicts in the Amazon: a sociological approach, Mauricio Torres, (S. Paolo University, Brazil)

8.30 p.m.
Panorama/Ambient/azioni
Encounter with film directors Roberto Amico, Claudia Apostolo and Daniela Marchetto(A beiradeira e o grilador)