Internazionale has chosen the Palazzo delle Esposizioni again this year to present a fascinating new selection of current affairs documentaries selected for the hugely successful journalism fest in Ferrara which the magazine has been organizing for many years, and for a traveling movie retrospective which will be visiting eleven other cities in Italy besides Rome.  This intense program, the result of long and painstaking sifting through the best of the past season's productions, provides a layered image of what we understand by the term current affairs:  a series of snapshots of the present, with shades of the past and visions of the future superimposed on one another. Take Tahrir Square in Cairo:  a dictatorship from the past explodes into a revolution narrated here and now, while it rekindles people's visions of the future.  Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has to take stock of a painful past in Prosecutor in order to ensure that justice is done for the victims of human rights violations; and journalist Peter Torbiörnsson in Last Chapter returns to the scene of a past conflict that has marked his entire life.  The Colombian civil war victims in Impunity are trapped in a past identical to the present; while the metaphor of imprisonment becomes a reality in Guantánamo, where prisoners are condemned to living an unchanging present while awaiting their future trials in You Don't Like the Truth.  The future is the focus of two films which share the expectations that underpin them:  politicians and voters in Ghana get to grips with one of the country's first democratic elections in An African Election; and students from Vienna University are soon imitated by indignados throughout the rest of Europe in their struggle for a fairer education system, in The Edukators 2.0.  We are left with the hope that quality journalism will go from strength to strength in Page One, a fascinating account of a year at the New York Times as it stubbornly continues to give people the news while struggling with the meltdown and with competition from the web, from tablets and from Wikileaks.
Thanks to the solid cooperation established by Internazionale and the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, the entire program of documentaries will be enhanced by the presence of guests and of some of the magazine's editors, who will be introducing to the audience both the screenings and the issues addressed in the films.


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Palazzo delle Esposizioni - Sala Cinema
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