What is so important as listening to understand the world, the spirit of the time, the conflicts but also the beauty and the protagonists who, in history, make the difference? Certainly the look: Listen with your eyes is the theme of the ninth edition of the Festival Visions from the World, in Milan from 14 to 17 September, an event that aims to promote empathy and the understanding of reality at every latitude, the “feeling” of human events near and far from us. The Festival, under the artistic direction of Maurizio Nichetti, offers 38 films screened in three locations – Teatro Litta, Cineteca Arlecchino, National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci – with the presence of directors in the room to offer testimony on a cinema conceived as journalistic mission, a necessary job to show the wounds of our time.
The 2023 edition will open The Stones and Brian Jones, in which director Nick Broomfield – who met Brian Jones on a train at 14, reveals the true story and legacy of the founder of the Rolling Stones. Jones died at just 27 years old six years after that meeting, Broomfield narrates the relationships and rivalries within the band in that period and the exuberance of the 60s through interviews with the protagonists and material from unpublished archives.
The Rolling Stones in 1964: from the leftMick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts.
Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesThere are many interesting titles in the International Competition including Baghdad on Fire by Karrar Al-Azzawi. Director, writer, photographer and activist, he was born in Baghdad and lives in Norway, where he studied at the Lillehammer TV School. With his works he wants to contribute to changing the world, stimulating understanding and solidarity between people, and to do this best he traveled for five years in different countries coming into contact with the vicissitudes of asylum seekers. Her film is a dramatic journey following Tiba, a nineteen-year-old Iraqi girl who fights with her peers for democracy in Iraq, at the forefront of the largest Iraqi youth movement of the last 20 years.
The protagonist of Baghdad on Fire Tiba Fadhil.
It is presented as a world premiere How I Survived the Pyongyang Film Festival 3D, animated feature film directed by German director Martin Hans Schmitt. Passionate about 3D films and documentaries, he also collaborates with the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. The film recounts the director’s experience during the Pyongyang International Film Festival in 2018, a journey during which it is revealed how Kim Jong-un’s dictatorship shapes the lives and thoughts of North Koreans and how it progressively influences the director too, giving ever more the impression of watching a satire of real life.
The interior of the Children’s Palace in How I Survived the Pyongyang Film Festival 3D.
It is dedicated to the Spanish journalist Marc Marginedas Return to Raqqa, by Albert Solé and Raul Cuevas. Marginedas, now 56 years old, war correspondent for El Periodico, is one of the 19 journalists kidnapped and taken prisoner in Syria in 2013 by Islamic fundamentalists. Marginedas was released after six months, in March 2014, but the documentary is also based on the experiences of other less fortunate journalists.
A scene from Return to Raqqa.
Lovers of underground culture will love it Scab Vendor, documentary on the life of Jonathan Shaw. The American visual artist, tattoo artist and writer founded New York City’s oldest tattoo shop, Fun City Tattoo, in 1976. Thanks to extensive research into Shaw’s personal archive – consisting of historical photos and recorded audio interviews with his famous parents, his father, Jazz band leader Artie Shaw, and his mother, actress Doris Dowling, from recordings video while tattooing celebrities like Johnny Depp and Iggy Pop – directors Lucas de Barros and Mariana Thomé tell the story of their career change to reinvent themselves as an author of underground novels.
Jonathan Shaw.
Finally, the film is out of competition Dino Meneghin. Story of a legend, by Samuele Rossi, dedicated to «SuperDino», a great basketball player and former president of the Italian Basketball Federation from 2008 to 2013, now 73 years old. Produced by Solaria Film and Echivisivi in collaboration with Rai Documentari, it tells one of the most exciting stories that Italian sport has given to its fans through the exclusive voices of family members such as his son Andrea and his wife Caterina, his teammates and historic coaches who guided it, above all Sandro Gamba and Dan Peterson.
Dino Meneghin.
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Source: Vanity Fair

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