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Environment and Human Rights Film Festival, Life After Oil (LAO) is 10! Here the Line-up

6 - 10 June Villanovaforru, Sardegna - Italy

Life After Oil, a film festival that deals specifically with the environment and human rights on an international level, celebrates an important milestone: its 10th edition. A journey that began in 2014 under the sign of cinema seen not only as artistic expression, but also as a tool for knowledge and information on topics that should concern everyone. For the third consecutive year, the collaboration with the municipality of Villanovaforru, a town in the province of South Sardinia that will host the event from June 6 to 10, is confirmed.

“In spite of all the logistical and organizational difficulties that are encountered and that seem to be increasing instead of decreasing,” highlights artistic director Massimiliano Mazzotta, “the need to make a clean change in the system is so tangible that we want to continue in our intent of popularization through cinema in all its facets, with the hope of reaching an ever-wider audience. To do this, we want to thank those who have allowed us to build this path over the past ten years: the municipalities of Martis, Stintino, Santa Teresa Gallura, Ottana, Pattada, Oristano, Cagliari, Villanovaforru, Fondazione Sardegna Film Commission, Medicina Democratica and Fondazione Sardegna. And then all the educational institutions that have been involved and are for us a source of greater inspiration for the continuation, because the young people who inhabit them are our future.”

THE IRON DIGGER

Over the years, the festival has brought filmmakers and activists together with the public to discuss the increasingly important and topical issues of human rights and the environment. The purpose is to go beyond denunciation. As important as it is to raise awareness of the risks associated with the exploitation and use of natural resources used for the production of fossil fuels, however, the enormous problem of disasters caused by energy shortages remains, in all its dramatic nature. The main objective of the festival is therefore not only to highlight the problems associated with the use of fossil fuels, but also to identify possible alternatives that take into account, based on scientific knowledge, the various known methods of production.

From Afghanistan to Venezuela to report the ends of the list, in alphabetical order, of the 92 different countries from which the 989 works entered for this tenth edition of Life After Oil arrived. The selection committee admitted 50 films including features and shorts of different genres and lengths (documentaries, dramas, animation works) to the competition with 14 first works.

But let's now have a look at the Asian titles of the line-up:

ENVIRONMENT – Features and Medium Lenght
THE IRON DIGGER by Anil Budha Magar Documentario 51′ Nepal 2022

IT'S TIME TO GO

HUMAN RIGHTS – Features
IT'S TIME TO GO by Ananth Narayan Mahadevan Fiction 90′ India 2021

ENVIRONMENT – Shorts
HIDE AND SEEK by Rian Apriansyah Fiction 9'52” Indonesia 2022
WILDFIRE by Shyam Karki Documentario 10'00” Nepal 2022

HUMAN RIGHTS – Shorts
48 HOURS by Azadeh Moussavi Fiction 20′ Iran 2022
DAD, SHALL WE SING SOMETHING? by Aidana Baurjanqyzy Fiction 20′ Kazakistan 2021
IN CINEMA by Azamat Sharshenov Fiction 4′ Kirghizistan 2023
WILL YOU LOOK AT ME by Shuli Huang Fiction 20′ China 2022

WILL YOU LOOK AT ME

ANIMATION
FOBI by Elham Aminian Passo uno 12'50” Iran 2022
GAMBIT by Naime Pakniyat Computer grafica 3'16” Iran 2022
GUN PLAY by Barzan Rostami 3D Computer 2'35” Iran 2022
ONE OF THE OBVIOUS RIGHTS OF CITIZENSHIP by Reza Khodadadi Passo uno 1'17” Iran 2021
THE SPRAYER by Farnoosh Abedi 3D Computer 8'45” Iran 2022

BAMNOL – THE DEBT

WORLD PANORAMA
BAMNOL – THE DEBT by Robin Dudfield Fiction 12′ Cambodia 2021
INTERNAL by Soumadeep Dasgupta Fiction 15′ India 2022

About the author

Adriana Rosati

On paper I am an Italian living in London, in reality I was born and bread in a popcorn bucket. I've loved cinema since I was a little child and I’ve always had a passion and interest for Asian (especially Japanese) pop culture, food and traditions, but on the cinema side, my big, first love is Hong Kong Cinema. Then - by a sort of osmosis - I have expanded my love and appreciation to the cinematography of other Asian countries. I like action, heroic bloodshed, wu-xia, Shaw Bros (even if it’s not my specialty), Anime, and also more auteur-ish movies. Anything that is good, really, but I am allergic to rom-com (unless it’s a HK rom-com, possibly featuring Andy Lau in his 20s)"

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