2024 Edition
PROGRAM – GIURY – ARTISTIC DIRECTION – FILM SELECTORS – HOSTS – FILM AWARDS
27 films coming from all over the world, a global vision of rurality that will make us travel through Russia, France, Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia, Denmark, Armenia, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, Switzerland, Finland, Great Britain and China.
The festival Corto e Fieno, now in its fifteenth edition, is the only film festival in Italy entirely dedicated to the world of rurality, with screenings and meetings dedicated to the soil, its fruits and those who care for it. This year’s films propose a more multidisciplinary approach to offer new points of view: directors also include architects, designers , artists and scientists .
Since 2010 the screenings of Corto and Fieno are free. You can help us and support the festival by becoming a member of Asilo Bianco or with a donation: a special edition of the shopper, one of the rural gadgets, a fine art print of the poster.
The films are in original language with subtitles in Italian and, when reported, also in English (Eng sub).
The 2024 poster is created by the illustrator and publisher of marinonibooks Antonio Marinoni. The poster represents the rural landscape of plain that Antonio observes every day, crystallizing it in the moment of passage between day and night.
La Sigla
La locandina 2020 è firmata dall’illustratore Luca Di Sciullo (www.lucadisciullo.com), che ha disegnato e animato anche la sigla dell’undicesima edizione.
Ho sempre sentito il mondo rurale come molto vicino a me. Mio nonno, un autentico contadino, scandiva le stagioni con i lavori da fare in campagna. Ogni tanto da piccolo andavo ad aiutarlo e vivevo quei momenti come se fossi all’interno di un film di cui lui era il protagonista. Mi portava a liberare le viti dalle erbacce, a dar l’acqua alle piante, a raccogliere le mele. Di quei momenti ricordo soprattutto gli odori: quello della terra appena arata, delle mele mature e l’inconfondibile profumo del Fiat 505c. Corto e Fieno per me sono due agricoltori, due amici, che al termine di una stancante giornata di lavoro nei campi riposano le braccia e illuminati dal maxischermo si godono un film nella frescura di una serata autunnale.
Corto e Fieno 2024
Villa Nigra - MIASINO - 6 PM
Meeting with the writer Davide Cerullo
Inauguration of the photographic exhibition The Faces of Scampia
Cinema Sociale - OMEGNA - 9 PM
Germogli
A white-white day,Vasily Chirkov, Russia 2022, 6’
Frutteto
My girl, Caroline Ophelie, Francia 2024, 18’
Un Laghée, Sofia Piana, Italia 2024, 12’
Mietitura
Domus de Janas, Myriam Raccah, Belgio 2023, 69’
Cinema Nuovo - BORGOMANERO - 2 PM
Germogli
Maček med vrati (Catlands), Ana Čigon, Slovenia, Croazia 2024, 10’
Frutteto
Strata incognita, Romea Muryn, Francisco Lobo, Amaia Sánchez-Velasco, Jorge Valiente Oriol, Spagna Portogallo 2023, 17’
Xiaohui and his cows, Xinying Lao, Cina 2023, 15’
O gün bu gündür, uçuyorum, Aylin Gökmen, Svizzera 2023, 18’
Jaima, Francesco Pereira, Svizzera 2023, 18’
Cinema Nuovo - BORGOMANERO - 6:30 PM
Germogli
Leptir (Butterfly), Sunčana Brkulj, Croazia, Danimarca 2024, 8’
Frutteto
It takes a village..., Ophelia Harutyunyan, Armenia, Belgio, Francia 2022, 20’
The Valley Pride, Lukas Marxt, Austria, Germania 2023, 14’
The Stream XIII, Hiroya Sakurai, Giappone 2024, 5’
Cinema Nuovo - BORGOMANERO - 9 PM
Germogli
Radio Interference, Aleksey Pochivalov, Russia 2024, 5’
Frutteto
Vincent, Noemi Pisano, Francesco Rey, Italia 2023, 14’
The stag, Han Chu, Taiwan 2024, 15’
Mietitura
Nessun posto al mondo, Vanina Lappa, Italia 2023, 80’
Teatro SOMSI - GOZZANO - 2:30 PM
Germogli
The cow, Maria Mac Dalland, Danimarca 2024, 7’
Dinoland, Masha Vselenskaya, Russia 2023, 4’
Frutteto
Been there, Corina Schwingruber Ilić, Svizzera 2023, 10’
De Gallo qui Ovavit, Nina Forsman, Finlandia 2024, 15’
The Wool Aliens, Julia Parks, Gran Bretagna 2023, 28’
The wheat will not be golden, Guoxin Wang, Cina 2023, 11’
SOMSI - GOZZANO - 4:30 PM
Out of contest - Sempreverde
Arvaia, Anita Corradi, Aurora Farli, Roberta Stirpe, Stefano Triggiani, Italia
2023, 8’
Diciassette, Thomas Horat, Svizzera 2023, 17’
The ice builders, Francesco Clerici e Tommaso Barbaro, Italia, India 2024, 15’
Even tide, Francesco Clerici, Italia, Svizzera 2023, 11’
SOMSI - GOZZANO - 5:30 PM
Award ceremony
SOMSI - GOZZANO - 9 PM
screening of the winner films
Giury
Paolo Micalizzi
Tiziana Spadaro
João Paulo Macedo
Roberto Lazzerini
Artistic Direction
Davide Vanotti
Davide Vanotti (1972) collaborates on literary, cinematographic and artistic projects. After studying modern letters at the University of Pavia he spent some periods abroad as a writer in residence. He teaches Letters in a high school. Co-founder of Asilo Bianco, he is the curator of Corto e Fieno and Fogli/e Scritte. He published the collection of stories “Acqua 2” and the novel "La Pietra sopra il Mare". "I diari di Malidor" is his blog.
Film selectors
Francesco Clerici
Thomas Horat
Riccardo Palladino
Cristian Cerutti
Hosts
Veronica Franzosi
Veronica Franzosi is originally from Lake Orta, but was born and raised in Milan. She is an actress who works both in theater and television. She graduated from Paolo Grassi in 2013. She worked for several years with Teatro Colla as a puppeteer and actress, and was directed by well-known directors, among others Stefano de Luca, Luca Micheletti, Corrado Accordino, Massimo Navone. She worked with Dario Fo in theatre and on television with Maurizio Crozza. For many years she has worked as a theatre teacher at Teatro Binario7 in Monza and ZonaK in Milan. Currently working as a mime/ actress at the Teatro Alla Scala in Milan, directed by Robert Carsen and Leo Muscato.
Floriano Negri
Floriano Negri nasce a Borgomanero il 4 settembre 1968. Frequenta il conservatorio A.Vivaldi di Alessandria e l'accademia dei Filodrammatici di Milano. Si perfeziona con Nola Rae e Carlo Boso. Negli anni collabora con molte associazioni teatrali fra cui la compagnia di marionette Gianni e Cosetta Colla, Tag teatro di Vicenza, I Guitti di Brescia. È presidente della sala teatro Somsi di Gozzano.
Film Awards
O gun bu gundur, ucuyorum (Aylin Gokmen)
For his ability to poetically express the pain of the tortured man through the memory of his own world as a Kurdish nomad and especially of the intense relationship between man and nature that reaches its climax in the various facets of love, both in childhood with his mother and in youth with a girl lost too early in an ambush
A white-white day (Vasily Chirkov)
Beautiful, sharp and elegant. In the best tradition of Russian animation, it reminds us of the beauty of small things, which are easily overlooked in everyday life.
Strata Incognita (Romea Muryn, Francisco Lobo, Amaia Sànchez-Velasco, Jorge Valiente Oriol)
For having recounted the relationship between man and soil, using a directing style attentive to scientific rigour and poetic transfiguration through a language that takes us back to the best experimental cinema.
The wheat will not be golden (Guoxin Wang)
For the photography and the slow, narrative flow.
For the details reframed by architecture linked to a revolutionary time now overtaken by contemporaneity.
Vincent (Noemi Pisano, Francesco Rey)
People think that technology is not necessary in agricultural work, Vincent the young farmer in this film shows us that modernity and tradition go hand in hand. And that there are various ways of understanding technology.
Mucca, Xiaohui and his cows (Xinying Lao)
The film develops the empathetic relationship between the cow, mother of the calf, and the child.
It succeeds in showing its sensitivity by elevating it to the role of a character.