Today it seems almost normal that the cinema take care of environment. There are directors, like Yann Arthus-Bertrand or Fischer Stevenswhich are now myths in the sector, without forgetting stars, Leonardo di Caprio in the lead, who have invested a lot in the production of documentaries to report distortions against the environment and promote one sustainable culture on the maxisketer.
When instead the Cinemambiente Festival It is a festival organized by the National Cinema Museum of Turin: it was born to Turin, In 1998, when things were a little different. Yes, the momentum of the “green cause” had begun (they were the years of the famous Kyoto protocol), but talking about environmental theme documentaries was still a niche conversation, among a few interested activists. Yet the festival, which celebrates its 28th edition this year (from 5 to 10 June 2025, at the Massimo Cinema in Turin), he held hard, helping to present the best environmental films and documentaries in Italy, supporting the screenings in the room with various promotion and awareness activities.
Founded by Gaetano Capizzi, today it is directed by Lia vexhi and confirms itself The most important Italian event dedicated to environmental theme films. And now he is also ready to go away: the Cinemambiente Festival presents in fact a special programming for the public of Garden of ideas That Vanity Fair Italy He sets up in the cloisters of Diocesan Museum of Milan from 8 to 13 Aprilduring the Design Week.
“Will be A great challenge: we will project titles not in the dark and in the silence of a cinema room, but outdoors, in front of an audience that is mostly passing by “, anticipates Lia Vaxhi who took care of the selection of Seven international short filmsunpublished to the Italian public, which will be seen on a giant screen of the Garden of ideas. «We are used to an audience that comes to look for us now We will have to be good to capture the attention of passers -by. We have chosen a series of for the occasion titles of strong impact for their formal composition, favoring the films that also lent themselves to one intuitive vision. To documentaries with complex stories and testimonies we preferred those of the greatest grip. It is important for us to bring the observer to ask questions about what he is seeing », continues Lia Vaxhi.
The proposed films will decline the theme of the sustainability: «There is not only the Climate Change, The director of the Festival concludes, we will talk about water, flora, rivers, energy transition. Compared to when we started, today the documentaries have refined their storytelling and narrative techniques. At the beginning, a lot of complaints were made, the reportage films were very popular: today the individual stories are preferred to speak in a concrete way of the general themes, in order to involve the viewer. Environmental theme documentaries are real author films: A pleasure for the eyes and food for the mind».
Source: Vanity Fair
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