La chimera
09 May 2024 | 10:00
Sala Hera — Cinema Astra
Everyone pursues their own chimera without ever being able to grasp it. For some it is the dream of easy gain, for others the pursuit of an ideal love… Returning to a small town on the Tyrrhenian Sea, Arthur finds his ill-fated band of tomb-robbers, thieves of Etruscan grave goods and archaeological wonders. Arthur has a gift that he puts at the service of the gang: he senses emptiness. The emptiness of the land in which lie the vestiges of a past world. The same emptiness that has left in him the memory of his lost love, Benjamin. In an adventurous journey between the living and the dead, between forests and cities, between festivals and solitudes, the intertwined destinies of these characters unfold, all in search of the Chimera.
Regia di Alice Rohrwacher
133'
Italy
2023
Born in Fiesole, she studied in Turin and Lisbon. She wrote and worked as a musician for theater before approaching filmmaking, initially as a documentary film editor.
In 2011 she made her first feature film, Corpo Celeste, which was screened in Cannes at the Directors’ Fortnight and then selected at the Sundance, New York, London, Rio and Tokyo festivals.
Her second film, Le Meraviglie, won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014, while her third film, Lazzaro Felice (2018), won, also at Cannes, the prize for best screenplay, garnering major international acclaim.
In 2015 she directed The Djess, a short film in the Miu Miu Women’s Tale series.
In 2016 she staged Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata at Teatro Valli in Reggio Emilia.
In 2020 she collaborates with Rai and HBO to direct the third and fourth episodes of the acclaimed series L’amica geniale – Storia del nuovo cognome based on the novels by Elena Ferrante.
In 2021 she presents at Cannes (Quinzaine) the documentary Futura, which she co-directed with Pietro Marcello and Francesco Munzi.
In 2023 she is nominated for an Oscar in the Best Live Action Shorts category for Le Pupille co-produced by Alfonso Cuarón for Disney.