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- Mariam Bin Laden is going to swim across the English Channel. This represents not only an athletic challenge, but a symbolic and ardent dream: to give a second chance to her family, to inspire and empower Arab women to go after their dreams, as well as to promote awareness for one of the most important issues of our time, refugees in dire need who are forced everyday to cross boundaries to survive. From 1875 on, more than 2000 people have already managed to cross the Strait of Dover, but many more have failed. This performance is to swimmers what Everest is to mountaineers: a legend. Mariam first heard about this discipline from her mother when she was 11. She told her about Abdellatief Abouheif (1929-2008 Alexandria), the first Arab man to cross the English Channel. That story stuck to Mariam's mind when she was a child and now, 20 years later, it's become her own dream. Mariam's last name is Bin Laden: a surname that still scares. Osama Bin Laden was one of Mariam's 52 uncles. Bin Laden is a difficult name to carry. But the fact that a black sheep in the family did what he did shouldn't stain their family's honor, a family that did and still does a lot for Saudi Arabia's progress and welfare. Mariam dives into the water and there she goes. She's not yet swimming in the English Channel. She's swimming in the Thames, 225 km north of London. Ramadan will be underway in just a few days making her journey all the more challenging. She has 10 days to reach the capital of England, a performance that will make her the first woman to swim down the Thames...An excellent training for Miriam in view of the Channel challenge.
- In a small town in a small valley there is an important hockey team: the Ambrì-Piotta Hockey Club.
- I start the film with the words: "For a free and independent cinema". A perhaps pompous phrase, but which wants to underline the fact that this documentary was totally self-produced. I experienced firsthand the impossibility of finding funding for this type of subject. And then I just have to do it at my expense: it was further confirmation that being non-believers in Italy (but also in secular Switzerland) is not only anomalous but also tiring. I wanted to show the life of some atheists, more than the associative aspect of the movement. I wanted to explain how not being believers develops a strong critical spirit. Being an atheist determines one's life choices. Choices that are often distinguished by righteousness and social commitment. The atheist is an ordinary person, as Isabella says: "Even the atheist has a mother, children, a dog to take for a walk, a job, shopping to do, in short, we too do not miss anything - ".
- The "twenty-twenty" was the year of goals, strategies and good intentions. Until carnival we still lived with this euphoria, then we woke up from the revelry in a much longer Lent than usual. When I realized that this pandemic was going to have a radical impact on my life, I started shooting a video diary involving people around me. The camera was thus lowered to the height of my children, who became the protagonists of a "story" of a family that right from the beginning decided to live with the virus.
- Have you ever asked the sanctuary of Delphi today and that is Google the question of all questions: "what is the meaning of life?". What is the response you received from the modern Pythia: Siri, Alexa or chatGPT? Is there a common and shared answer? The documentary "The meaning of 'my' life" seeks an answer among the depths of the web and is contaminated by the author's thoughts and experiences.
- STELLA CIAO is the portrait of the last year and a half in the existence of a peculiar place, a unique slice of life as it was seized right before its destruction.
- A journey through the feminine mind in Silvio Berlusconi's Italy.