Languages of the real - Cinematographic review

The cinematographic review "LANGUAGES OF THE REAL"-brief journey in the author documentary", continues in January according to the following calendar:

FRIDAY, JANUARY 11th 
"Le ferie di Licu" 
by Vittorio Moroni (Italy-Bangladesh 2006, 93')

Licu was born in Bangladesh,he is muslim, he is 27 and he has been living in Rome for 6 years in a rented house with other eight people. For a short time he isn't clandestine no more and he works 12 hours a day to live:warehouseman in a textile laboratory in the morning, cashier in a food store in the evening. Hair like Elvis, designer shirts, Roma team supporter, Licu seems very integrated. Suddenly he is recalled in his country because his family has choosen a wife for him, from that moment, everything gets complicated.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 18th
"Cricket cup" 
by Massimiliano Pacifico and Diego Liguori (Italy 2006, 49')

Through the life fragments of 5 characters, an immigrants population is found out, the Srilankese one, who has been able to root well and to settle in Naples. But the most interesting discovery is their ability to do and to organize cricket tournaments also with trophies and prizes, in a nation, Italy, where most people doesn't even know what this word means. Sagara and his cricket team of Naples, after having found a sponsor and a bus, leave in the middle of the night for a national tournament, searching glory and success for one day at least. 
 
"The orchestra of Piazza Vittorio: the diaries of the return"
by Alessandro Rossetto and Leonardo Di Costanzo (Italy 2007, 70')

After the documentary about the history of the multiethnic orchestra that was born in Rome,Esquilino quarter, the protagonists of the same adventure, Agostino Ferrante and Mario Tronco, have promoted the creation of the piucture of every musicians. The first two of them, were made in Argentina by Alessandro Rossetto and in Tunisia by Leonardo Di Costanzo.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 25th
"Grizzly Man"
by Werner Herzog (Canada-Usa 2005, 100')

Who would abandon everthing to live for 3 months with any grizzlies in Alaska? The logic would say nobody, but Timothy Treadwell wouldn't agree. Herzog gives us a deep documentary, full of amasing images, shot by Treadwell during his long summers immersed in the wildest nature, a story aimed to investigate this ecologist's personality, who tries to reckon with himself and his own past, fighting dangerosly for a right reason. 

"The Agronomist" 
by Jonathan Demme (Usa 2003, 90')

The extraordinary story of Jean Dominique founder of Haiti Inter Radio, for almost 50 years, voice of the Haitian people in the battle for the safeguarding of human rights against the oppression of the military power. The Agronomist is a passionate and touching tribute to a not so famous hero of our epoch, whom Demme makes cunningly and carefully furnishing a moving and absorbing page of cinema. 

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