PRESS RELEASE (22/08/2014)
The initiative Family-friendly Loano will weave into the last week of August the film festival “Docunaturae, the planet that breathes”, promoted by the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano and organized by the I.So THeatre with the artistic direction of Paul Borio.
The August 25, 26, 27 art cinema, will take the form of documentary filmmaking and tell the story of nature with a cycle of three films: “The first breath”, “Microcosmos” e “The migratory people”.
The free admission screenings will be held starting at 9:30 pm in the’Prince's Garden Summer Arena.
Monday, August 25 will be screened “The First Breath” (2007) by Gilles de Maistre. The documentary, made over three years, shows how the moment of birth is approached by the different cultures scattered around the world. Director Gilles de Maistre carried out a sort of “Birth World Tour,” filming the coming into the world of American, Mexican, Brazilian, French, Nigerian, Tanzanian, Indian, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Russian babies.Fifteen months of filming served to tell ten stories and ten countries.
The film chosen for Tuesday, August 26 è “Microcosmos - The Grass People.” (U.S. 1996) by Marie Perennou, Claude Nuridsany, a 1996 documentary featuring the animals that inhabit meadows, particularly insects and other invertebrates such as spiders and snails. Set in the French countryside of Aveyron over the course of a single 24-hour cycle of a summer day, this documentary shows a world never seen through the eyes of its protagonists: proportions change, times speed up, and life seen from the perspective of insects takes on a magical and adventurous aspect: rain, with its huge drops, is a real danger, simple stones turn into mountains just as even small birds become fearsome predators, and the cycle of life itself completely changes the timescales to which humans are accustomed: a day lasts an hour, a season a day, a life a season.
The review will close Wednesday, August 27 with “The migratory people” (2011) by Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats. The spectacular documentary is involved four years of filming along the routes of the Atlantic, Gibraltar, the Bosporus and Italy, following the periodic migrations of pelicans, eagles, albatrosses, flamingos, terns, wild geese and other species, which move with unerring instinct from the southern hemisphere to the northern hemisphere to breed and then undertake the return flight. Ornithologists, cameramen and pilots have contributed images that allow us to follow the flight from a privileged angle, that of the birds themselves. The documentary not only captures the flight, but also the mating rituals, the hatching of the eggs, and the mysterious march of the emperor penguins toward the ocean in an almost white sunset.
