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Manas
According to Joy
Seydou, Il sogno non ha colore

MANA’S

Brazil/Portugal, 2024. Director: Marianna Brennand. Scenario: Felipe Sholl, Marcelo Grabowsky, Marianna Brennand, Antonia Pellegrino, Camila Agustini, Carolina Benevides. Starring Jamilli Correa, Fátima Macedo, Rômulo Braga, Dira Paes, Emily Pantoja, Samira Eloá, Gabriel Rodrigues, Enzo Maia. Duration 101′

After previous documentaries on the figures and artistic traditions of her native Brazil, Marianna Brennand makes her feature film debut with Manasnot only important because she has been selected for the 21st edition of Venice Days. Thanks to this, the result of the long research carried out for the making of another documentary, “which will be filmed in the villages of the Amazon rainforest”, in which the director says that he has “met women who have been victims of unspeakable traumas at a young age”, arrives on the Lido. In one of them, in Marajó, the story of 13-year-old Marcielle unfolds. As she grows up, she sees her mother and sisters with different eyes. She decides to confront the system that oppresses the family and the women in the community, justifying abuse and sexual exploitation.

Mattia Pasquini

ZELON JOY

France. 2024. Directed by Camille Lugan. Starring Sonia Bonny, Volodymyr Zhdanov, Raphael Thiéry, Asia Argento. Playing time 86‘.

Camille Luganformer assistant director of Jacques Audiard in the atypical west The brothers and sisters (2018), director and screenwriter of the short films Karama, Karama (2014) and The ongoing (2018), makes her feature film debut. According to Joy is a story set in a dull and deserted city: Joy is an orphan with a deep faith who almost never leaves her church. Everything changes when she meets Andriy, a young man who was beaten up in front of her. Joy is convinced that their paths were destined to cross. She will find a new life and a new self in a sudden battle between good and evil, innocence and crime. Asia Argento And Raphael Thiéry embody the devil and holy water.

Oscar Cosulich

SEYDOU – IL SOGNO NON HA COLOR

Italy. 2024. Direction and screenplay Simone Aleandri. Starring Seydou Sarr, Amath-Diallo, Moustapha trap, Fatou Sokhna, Arnaud Zohin, Federico Coppitelli. Playing time 60′.

Seydou Sarr was catapulted from Senegal to Italy in a year. He dreamed of becoming a footballer, but thanks to Matteo Garronehe discovered himself as a talented actor. For his intense performance in Io Capitano he won the Marcello Mastroianni Prize for emerging actors at the last Venice Film Festival. This film also won the Silver Lion for Best Director.

In Seydou, the dream has no color (Seydou, the dream has no color ), the actor follows the path that led him from the Senegalese football fields to the international stages of cinema. The film is an intimate story enriched by encounters with some of the greatest footballers of the Italian league. The documentary explores crucial issues such as identity, belonging and above all the fight against racial prejudice on football fields, which unfortunately still constitutes an aspect of discrimination, even in our Serie A.

Oscar Cosulich