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Modern Heroes Tread the World Stage From Srebrenica to Tbilisi, India, Palermo and a Wondrous Greenland Ice Sheet in Latest Swiss Docs
Presented at Visions du Réel, Swiss Films Previews titles capture figures rebelling against macro events around the globe.
In an era of adverse circumstance, the doc features highlight figures who rebel, whether against Russia’s war on the Ukraine (“Dom”), climate change (“Iceman”), homophobia in Palermo, gender violence (“Kalari”), the Srebrenica massacre (“Boy”) or, in the case of Daniel Zimmermann, director of “Spheres,” stock narrative. A portrait of Massimo Milani and Gino Campanella, an iconic gay couple together for 42 years, who own Quir, a leather goods boutique with an Almodóvar-esque aesthetic sells bags in pop-out colors, a LGBTQ sanctuary in the patriarchal stronghold of Palermo, Sicily. “Spheres” reveals the extraordinary in the apparently ordinary: a wooden slat thrown in one direction which circles the earth, striking the thrower in the back of the head; a restaurant diner crouched on the floor, eating like a dog from a bowl; in the chamber, two young women with sequinned faces looking deeply into each other’s eyes.
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