Country: France, Italy
Year: 2016
Duration: 70'
A falconer accompanies his competition falcons to an important tournament in Qatar. Instant cities have made the desert a very different place from what it was in the past. A place of silence and dilated time, zenith sunlight and hot winds that seem to suck every trace of water from your body, it has had to accept the vertical silhouettes of skyscrapers where the view used to stretch to the horizon. Nonetheless, falconry, with over forty centuries of history, still resists, allowing those who practice it to maintain a close and authentic relationship with the desert. [mp]
Biography
film director
Yuri Ancarani
Yuri Ancarani (Ravenna, Italy, 1972) is a video artist and filmmaker. His works are the result of an incessant amalgamation of documentary cinema and contemporary art. They have been presented at many exhibits and national and international museums, including the Venice Biennale, the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation in Turin, the MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts in Rome, the Guggenheim in New York, the Biennale of Prague, the Triennale of Milan, the PAC in Milan and the Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art. Film festivals at which he has participated include the Venice Film Festival, the festivals of Locarno, Rotterdam, Cinéma du réel and SXSW - South by Southwest. His films have received various awards, including the Grand Prix in the Lab Competition at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, the Short Film Grand Prize at IndieLisboa and the Special Jury Prize at Locarno, which he won with The Challenge.
FILMOGRAFIA
Il capo (cm, doc., 2010), Piattaforma Luna (cm, doc., 2011), Da Vinci (cm, doc., 2012), Ricordi per moderni (cm, doc., 2013), San Siro (cm, doc., 2014), Séance (cm, doc., 2014), The Challenge (doc., 2016).
Declaration
film director
“The Challenge is a complex movie, even though it’s fluid and tranquil. It’s easy to get to the desert; you take an airplane, you get a guide, you tour around for two or three hours, you ride a camel, and then you return to the city. It’s almost impossible to stop and look carefully. I realized that life in these new metropolises like Dubai or Doha is for everyone but not for the Bedouins, who continue to love their desert and need to experience it in full and intensely. It’s a question of tradition.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, montaggio/director, screenplay, film editing
Yuri Ancarani
fotografia/cinematography
Yuri Ancarani, Luca Nervegna, Jonathan Ricquebourg
scenografia/production design
Stéphane Dougoud, Tanguy Thirion
musica/music
Lorenzo Senni, Francesco Fantini
suono/sound
Pierre-Yves Lavoué, Mirco Mencacci, Luca Ciarfella, Piergiorgio De Luca
interpreti/cast
Khaled Al-Kaja, Nasser Al-Kaabi, Soul Riders Qatar, Khaled Al-Hammadi, Osama Yacoub, Rachid Mesfer Hamad Al-Shahwani Al-Hajri, Hadi Ghedir Al-Hajri, Hamad Saoud Al-Shahwani Al-Hajri, Jaber Ghanem Ali Al-Fayed Al-Hajri, Abdullah Ali Al-Yafei, Nawaf Abdullah, Rachid Al-Noaimy
produttori/producers
Christophe Gougeon, Fabrizio Polpettini, Pierre Malachin, Tommaso Bertani
produzione/production
Atopic, La Bête, Ring Film
contatti/contacts
Slingshot Films
Manuela Buono
Yuri Ancarani
fotografia/cinematography
Yuri Ancarani, Luca Nervegna, Jonathan Ricquebourg
scenografia/production design
Stéphane Dougoud, Tanguy Thirion
musica/music
Lorenzo Senni, Francesco Fantini
suono/sound
Pierre-Yves Lavoué, Mirco Mencacci, Luca Ciarfella, Piergiorgio De Luca
interpreti/cast
Khaled Al-Kaja, Nasser Al-Kaabi, Soul Riders Qatar, Khaled Al-Hammadi, Osama Yacoub, Rachid Mesfer Hamad Al-Shahwani Al-Hajri, Hadi Ghedir Al-Hajri, Hamad Saoud Al-Shahwani Al-Hajri, Jaber Ghanem Ali Al-Fayed Al-Hajri, Abdullah Ali Al-Yafei, Nawaf Abdullah, Rachid Al-Noaimy
produttori/producers
Christophe Gougeon, Fabrizio Polpettini, Pierre Malachin, Tommaso Bertani
produzione/production
Atopic, La Bête, Ring Film
contatti/contacts
Slingshot Films
Manuela Buono
info@slingshotfilms.it
manuela@slingshotfilms.it
