#15CA

Write a tweet dedicated to the CinemAmbiente's 15th birthday using hashtag #15CA!
Staff CinemAmbiente will select a few tweet s will be published on the Official Catalogue 2012!

//08.05.2012

cinemambiente - carpooling

If you want to reach Turin by car in a sustainable way, you can use our Carpooling service!
In collaboration with Carpooling.it

//18.03.2012

Premio Punto Acqua SMAT 2012

In occasione della giornata Mondiale dell'Acqua organizzata da SMAT in collaborazione con CINEMAMBIENTE, avrà luogo la cerimonia di consegna del Premio Punto Acqua SMAT 2012 che si svolgerà il 22 marzo 2012 alle ore 9,00 presso il Cinema Massimo - Via Verdi 18 Torino.

//15.03.2012

Il vizio dello spreco - Proiezione 23 marzo

il Settore della Regione Piemonte “Tutela e difesa dei consumatori”, in collaborazione con CinemAmbiente, le Biblioteche civiche di Torino, la Biblioteca della Regione Piemonte, l’Ufficio Scolastico Regionale, il Museo A come Ambiente organizzano la proiezione di LIFE FOR SALE all'interno della rassegna 'Il vizio dello spreco', il prossimo 23 marzo presso il Centro Incontri della Regione Piemonte, Corso Stati Uniti 23.

[Archive]

Film

Alsateh (The roof)

Il tetto

Alsateh (The Roof) is a lingeringly poetic film charting the Palestinian director Kamal Aljafari’s journey back to his family and homeland Palestine.. Despite the intense political background for the film its focus is universal, as the director explores the political and social context for his story through a lyrical registration of the human capacity to imagine and create worlds across time and space.
At the heart of the film is the belief that home is a feeling as well as a place. Even if a home is bombed to pieces its inhabitants will take it with them wherever they go, unable to leave something so integral to their sense of self behind. The film’s slow pan shots along the walls of destroyed homes evoke traces of what once was without resorting to memories of the past. Instead the film is an aesthetical and political manifestation of the architecture of place and identity firmly located in the present.

Il regista / The Director

Born in 1972, he graduated from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne in 2003. His films include Visit Iraq and The Roof. He is the reciepent of the Visual Art Prize of the city of Cologne for the year 2004 and artist fellowship grants from Kunstfonds and Kunststiftung NRW. His work has been shown internationaly at film festivals and art galeries. Currently in preproduction for the film Port of Memory.

“I very much believe in what Andre Bazin once said: ‘... the filmmaker’s duty is to show the bottom of the ocean and not to describe it...’. This bottom is the unfinished floor of my house in Ramle, the rusted boats in the port of Jaffa, and my family as it is. Film is a great tool to show the inner life of people. The camera is an Apparatus through which I discovered my environment. All I had to do was to trust my inner voice”.

Kamal Aljafari

Edizione 2007
FOCUS DIRITTI UMANI

DOCUMENTARY
Palestinian Territory, occupied , 2006, 61'

REGIA/DIRECTOR
Kamal Aljafari

TAGS:
Society and politics