20° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Doc 2002 Competition

Afghanistan: effetti collaterali?

Afghanistan Year 1380

Country: Italy
Year: 2002
Duration: 60'


The activities of Emergency in Afghanistan, from September to December, 2001. The dramatic episodes of daily life in Panshir, bombing victims in its villages and the victims of anti-personnel mines, inherited from a long series of wars lasting almost twenty-five years. The Emergency team arrives in Kabul and re-opens the hospital. The camera follows the medical personnel as it moves around, in the operating rooms, in the prisons where Emergency gives medical assistance to the prisoners, in the social programs aimed at helping women. A direct witness of a war which has made many more civilian victims than the media tell us about.

"The risk was to wax sensational about suffering and war. Or to remain completely indifferent in the face of what we were seeing. Being there to help build a hospital helped us avoid being overcome by the pain we were witnessing. We were doing something concrete. We knew we could change a small piece of that reality. It was something more than just observing" (F. Lazzaretti, A. Vendemmiati).

Biography

film director

Alberto Vendemmiati

Alberto Vendemmiati graduated from the DAMS of Bologna in 1993. The next year he received his diploma in directing from the National School of Cinema in Rome. He has presented the works he has directed at many national and international festivals, he mainly concentrates on the relationship between pretense and the description of reality.

FILMOGRAFIA

Cesare cadabra (1994), Crucifige (1998), Le voci fuori (1998), Jung (guerra) nella terra dei Mujaheddin (1998/2000).

Fabrizio Lazzaretti

Fabrizio Lazzaretti (Rome, 1966) began to work in 1984 in London as a freelance director for the London RAI affiliate and for several other stations there. In 1986 he continued this activity for the RAI Corporation when he moved to New York. In 1991 he moved back to Italy where he produced almost all of his work for RAI 3, directing 16 episodes of the program, Report, in 1999 and 2000.

FILMOGRAFIA

Viaterra (1995), Drug Stories (1997), Vivo a Fang (1997), Giro d'Italia a vela (1997), La vittoria a tutti i costi (1998), Crucifige (1998), Le voci fuori (1998), Jung nella terra dei Mujaheddin (1999/2000), Socialmente pericolosi (2001).

Cast

& Credits

Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura, fotografia: Fabrizio Lazzaretti, Alberto Vendemmiati.
Music: Mario Crispi (Compagnia Nuove Indye).
Editor: Alberto Vendemmiati, Giuseppe Petitto.
Cast: Gino Strada, Kate Rowlands, Marco Garatti.
Production company and Italian distribution: Giuseppe Petitto per Karousel Films, via Mameli 12, 00153 Roma, Italia, tel. e fax +39-06-5814191, www.karousel.org, e-mail production@karousel.org.
Co-production: Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana, P.O.V. American Documentary PBS.

TFF

prizes

SPAZIO TORINO COMPETITION 2002

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