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Me & the boys

films, HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 4: Great War – Contemporary History

A young boy leaves his home to sign up to serve his King & country in 1914. This short film tells of his journey through the First World War. Friendship, love, loss and returning home. Watch this film here Director Biography - Matt Hickinbottom The head of our studio is Matt Hickinbottom, who started out…

MAX CORVO For Freedom The secret war of OSS in Italy 1943-1945

films, HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 4: Great War – Contemporary History

The docufilm tells the true story of a young Sicilian immigrant who after coming to America and becoming Americanized joins the Army before World War II and becomes the Chief of Operations of Secret Intelligence of the American OSS (Office of Strategic Services-precursor of the CIA), in Italy during the military campaign of Allied forces…

MAKE IT BACK

films, HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 4: Great War – Contemporary History

A bunch of tourists travel into the Auschwitz concentration camp. Meanwhile, the voice of a former deported tells us her side of the story. Victor Ducas Director

Maestro Roman Toi – Beautiful Songs I Dedicate To You

films, HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 4: Great War – Contemporary History

For five decades Estonian-Canadian Maestro Roman Toi composed and conducted choral works and toured a Singing Revolution worldwide to restore freedom and democracy to the Republic of Estonia. The film follows Roman Toi’s life through music and historical events starting from the Russian era in early 1900’s, through Estonian Independence, World War II and then…

LIFE, ASSEMBLED

films, HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 4: Great War – Contemporary History

50 years after the realization of their utopias, three old architects take the director with them to discover unusual housing. A joyful journey through time from which emerges a crucial question: and us, how will we live tomorrow? Director Biography - Elodie Degavre "Elodie Degavre is an architect, teacher, photographer, author and director living in…

Letters for the Time

films, HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 4: Great War – Contemporary History

Timeless events happen in a shop in a small village. A craftsman carries out his work in a meticulous manner by receiving the "thoughts" of the inhabitants (in the form of letters) who for various reasons are far from their homeland. The story will take completely unexpected turns when even the Artisan's certainties vanish and…

LA ROSADA E L’ARDILUT In the Friuli of the young Pasolini

films, HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 4: Great War – Contemporary History

The documentary recounts the period that the young Pier Paolo Pasolini spent in Casarsa, the Friulan birthplace of his mother Susanna. Those years, as he himself said, 'were the highest moment of my life'. They were the years of cultural and poetic formation of a brilliant boy, avid for books and culture. Pasolini the poet…

Ritter, Tod und Teufel

films, HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 2: Migration Period – Middle Ages

A disillusioned crusader calls upon the devil, to get back his murdered wife. Noelle Goetz, the director of "Knight, Death, and Devil," is a design student focusing on film at the Technical University of Nuremberg. In addition to assistant jobs on advertising productions at international sets, she has already conceptualized and directed several web campaigns…

Lombard Woman

award winner 2024, films, HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 2: Migration Period – Middle Ages

The daily life of a Lombard woman in the seventh century, from her birth to her death an historical study on the Lombard society. It is a 25-minute short film that delves into the theme of the female condition in Lombard society through all phases of life: this is to allow the public to understand how…

Holodomor: Voices of Survivors (Ukrainian Famine/Genocide)

films, HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 4: Great War – Contemporary History

Putin's war in Ukraine is not the first time a Russian regime has tried to eliminate Ukrainian culture and independence. In 1932 - 1933, systemic policies perpetrated by the Soviet government under dictator Joseph Stalin exterminated millions of Ukrainians through mass starvation. Survivors who escaped to Canada post WWII recount the horrors of living through…

The Green Border

films, HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 4: Great War – Contemporary History

A border marked by 4056 boundary stones on French soil, delimiting the frontier of the lost provinces of Alsace-Lorraine (1871-1918). They form a forgotten scar, a no man’s land of memory which I explore. We follow the boundaries, meeting landscapes and inhabitants, building an itinerary of thought, to provide visibility and status to this frontier,…

Good evening, we’re from Barcelona

films, HIFFA 2024 Timeframe 4: Great War – Contemporary History

film made by activists who lived for a month in the Plaça de Catalunya in Barcelona after the start of the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 Watch this film here Director Biography - Lyubava Malysheva, Oleksandr Valko Lyubava Malysheva - born in the USSR, lives in Barcelona. Journalist, publisher, producer, videographer. https://www.lubava.info/ Oleksandr Valko…

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Me & the boys

MAX CORVO For Freedom The secret war of OSS in Italy 1943-1945

MAKE IT BACK

Maestro Roman Toi – Beautiful Songs I Dedicate To You

LIFE, ASSEMBLED

Letters for the Time

LA ROSADA E L’ARDILUT In the Friuli of the young Pasolini

Ritter, Tod und Teufel

Lombard Woman

Holodomor: Voices of Survivors (Ukrainian Famine/Genocide)

The Green Border

Good evening, we’re from Barcelona

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