10.22.2024

Two French-speaking Belgian documentaries selected at the Festival dei Popoli!

Fuga and To Gaza are part of the 2024 selection at the Festival dei Popoli!

The Festival dei Popoli – International Documentary Film Festival – aims to showcase and promote creative documentaries and innovative films. It seeks to foster exchanges between various disciplines and to provide a space where cinematic arts can engage in dialogue and grow through interaction with other forms of artistic expression.

The documentary To Gaza by Catherine Libert (autoproduction) will have its world premiere in the Doc Highlights section of the Italian festival, a selection dedicated to the year's most significant documentaries. Most of the footage was shot in Palestine.

If dignity had a name, it would be Gaza.
Filmed by Gazans, it chronicles events from the Israeli attack on 7 October to today, showing the ongoing genocide and the resilience of displaced people. From Gaza City to Rafah, it depicts destruction, suffering, and survival in refugee camps. Refaat Alarer's poems, who died in Gaza under Tsahal bombs on 7 December, accompany this chronicle of daily war.

Fuga by Bénédicte Liénard and Mary Jiménez, produced by Clin d’oeil Films, has been selected in the International Competition of the 65e edition of the festival. The documentary was part of the Industry Village projects at Les Arcs 2023 and had its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival last August.

In an Amazonian village, Saor, a young chaman, brings the coffin with his former lover, Valentina, back to her native village. During the mourning Saor meets survivors of the dirty war and discovers the past of his lover, who is known as Pol.

Let’s also highlight the presence of the French-speaking Belgian co-productions The Flats by Alessandra Celesia (Thank You & Good Night, International Competition) and Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat by Johan Grimonprez (Onomatopée Films, Let the music play).

See you in Florence from November 2 to 10, 2024!