The rigid lines of the gullies, split by the signs of time, run parallel and, unexpectedly, cross and change direction. The cracks become thicker, dig the surface, revealing uncertainty and transience. In these hostile places, the film festival "Storie Parallele" intersect. Arrived to the 5th edition, is organized by "Fargo" association and will be held in the city of Salandra (MT) in the heart of the South of Italy. "Storie Parallele" is a festival of short doc, a space of sharing and comparison where everyone can tell his fragment of life, a laboratory to give new light to abandoned places, to parallel places , to enter a house that no longer exists, that has lost its roof, touch a worm-eaten piece of furniture, opening a drawer to find the yellowed papers it has kept without deciding it. In addition to the screenings in competition, other activities will be carried out during the event: film workshops, meetings with the public, where directors and screenwriters will start a dialogue on the themes of their projects, a talk that will address social issues, such as depopulation of European rural areas; "Parallel places" is instead a laboratory that seeks a relationship between the morphology of the territory and a symbolic metaphor, to re-propose the themes of the festival by visiting some characteristic places of the Basilicata region, such as the badlands or ghost town.
During the past editions the president of the jury were the screenwriter Silvia Scola and the directors Daniele Stocchi and Gianfranco Pannone. This year the president will be the famous DOP and director Daniele Ciprì.
TRAILERS OF THE LAST EDITION:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opQjypl8eCk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AHstpmGehI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM586njIniA&t=90s
"The key word of this year's edition is "stops". Etymology teaches us that the word derives from "to stop", of people travelling and means of transport. A longer or shorter stay in a place. Every stop has to do with the journey. It is steadiness, immobility, quietness that responds to a previous movement. The traveller stopped along the way, seeking food and shelter for the night, preparing a story to tell over a glass of wine. The modern man stops at airports, stations, between a glance at the newspaper and a cigarette to be consumed while waiting for that train connection, or that chance event that changes the course of life. Whether a shepherd or a businessman, each stop has its own soul, its own regenerating force, its own suspended time limited to that moment. A time in which everything is permitted as long as it is part of the spell. Stopping is the term that opens the festival, and the first objective is precisely this: to breathe a sigh of relief and make oneself comfortable, to pause for a while before leaving, to lighten the baggage of daily anxieties and fill the soul before leaving again. Stopping without haste, without time, without expecting anything, while everything happens and is allowed to happen. This is Storie Parallele, 2022 edition." Nicola Ragone - Artistic Director
-best documentary: AWARD + MONEY PRIZE of 400,00 euro
-best director: AWARD
-best photography: AWARD
-best editing AWARD
-special prize of the jury: AWARD