Life After Oil, a movie competition that offers particularly with the atmosphere and human rights on a world degree, celebrates an essential milestone: its tenth version. A journey that started in 2014 underneath the signal of cinema seen not solely as creative expression, but additionally as a device for data and data on matters that ought to concern everybody. For the third consecutive yr, the collaboration with the municipality of Villanovaforru, a city within the province of South Sardinia that can host the occasion from June 6 to 10, is confirmed.
“Regardless of all of the logistical and organizational difficulties which are encountered and that appear to be rising as an alternative of reducing,” highlights creative director Massimiliano Mazzotta, “the necessity to make a clear change within the system is so tangible that we need to proceed in our intent of popularization via cinema in all its aspects, with the hope of reaching an ever-wider viewers. To do that, we need to thank those that have allowed us to construct this path over the previous ten years: the municipalities of Martis, Stintino, Santa Teresa Gallura, Ottana, Pattada, Oristano, Cagliari, Villanovaforru, Fondazione Sardegna Movie Fee, Medicina Democratica and Fondazione Sardegna. After which all the academic establishments which were concerned and are for us a supply of higher inspiration for the continuation, as a result of the younger individuals who inhabit them are our future.”
Over time, the competition has introduced filmmakers and activists along with the general public to debate the more and more essential and topical problems with human rights and the atmosphere. The aim is to transcend denunciation. As essential as it’s to boost consciousness of the dangers related to the exploitation and use of pure assets used for the manufacturing of fossil fuels, nevertheless, the large drawback of disasters brought on by power shortages stays, in all its dramatic nature. The primary goal of the competition is due to this fact not solely to spotlight the issues related to using fossil fuels, but additionally to establish doable options that have in mind, primarily based on scientific data, the varied identified strategies of manufacturing.
From Afghanistan to Venezuela to report the ends of the listing, in alphabetical order, of the 92 completely different nations from which the 989 works entered for this tenth version of Life After Oil arrived. The choice committee admitted 50 movies together with options and shorts of various genres and lengths (documentaries, dramas, animation works) to the competitors with 14 first works.
However let’s now take a look on the Asian titles of the line-up:
ENVIRONMENT – Options and Medium Lenght
THE IRON DIGGER by Anil Budha Magar Documentario 51′ Nepal 2022
HUMAN RIGHTS – Options
IT’S TIME TO GO by Ananth Narayan Mahadevan Fiction 90′ India 2021
ENVIRONMENT – Shorts
HIDE AND SEEK by Rian Apriansyah Fiction 9’52” Indonesia 2022
WILDFIRE by Shyam Karki Documentario 10’00” Nepal 2022
HUMAN RIGHTS – Shorts
48 HOURS by Azadeh Moussavi Fiction 20′ Iran 2022
DAD, SHALL WE SING SOMETHING? by Aidana Baurjanqyzy Fiction 20′ Kazakistan 2021
IN CINEMA by Azamat Sharshenov Fiction 4′ Kirghizistan 2023
WILL YOU LOOK AT ME by Shuli Huang Fiction 20′ China 2022
ANIMATION
FOBI by Elham Aminian Passo uno 12’50” Iran 2022
GAMBIT by Naime Pakniyat Laptop grafica 3’16” Iran 2022
GUN PLAY by Barzan Rostami 3D Laptop 2’35” Iran 2022
ONE OF THE OBVIOUS RIGHTS OF CITIZENSHIP by Reza Khodadadi Passo uno 1’17” Iran 2021
THE SPRAYER by Farnoosh Abedi 3D Laptop 8’45” Iran 2022
WORLD PANORAMA
BAMNOL – THE DEBT by Robin Dudfield Fiction 12′ Cambodia 2021
INTERNAL by Soumadeep Dasgupta Fiction 15′ India 2022
