Viejo Calavera

PerSo Masterpiece 2017 Viejo Calavera by Kiro Russo, Bolivia/Qatar, 2016, 80’   After his father dies, Elder is forced to live with his grandmother – far away from the city – and learn to be a worker. His godfather, Francisco, helps Elder find his place in a...

Varichina, la vera storia della falsa vita di Lorenzo De Santis

PerSo Masterpiece 2017 Varichina, la vera storia della falsa vita di Lorenzo De Santis by Mariangela Barbanente and Antonio Palumbo, Italy, 2015, 52’   Varichina used to raise some money doing valeting without license in the streets of Bari in the ‘80s. Ugly,...

Zaatari djinn

PerSo Award 2017 Zaatari djinn by Catherine Van Campen, Germany, 2017, 90’   Children are masters at making something out of nothing. A wad of paper becomes a soccer ball, two insects a zoo. Zaatari Djinn is an exceptionally intimate movie about the resilience of...

Treblinka

PerSo Award 2017 Treblinka by Sergio Tréfaut, Portogallo, 2016, 61’       Present, past and future merge in the wagons of a train that crosses Eastern Europe in the XXI century: Poland, Russia, Ukraine. The slogan of the post-war «Never Again» sounds...

The Unforgiven

PerSo Award 2017 The Unforgiven by Lars Ferdballe-Petersen, Finland/Denmark, 2017, 75’       Is it possible for a war criminal to find reconciliation with the past? How do you find your way back to what is known as a normal life when you have been...