curated by Claudia Praolini
Through the thematic focuses, the Concorto Film Festival aims to examine the phenomena and the aspects of our reality which represent a mirror of desires and contradictions that together form the complexity of human nature. In this year’s framework, something that simply could not miss is a research on the intricate relationship existing between man and nature through a series of short films that analyse it, also bearing in mind that nowadays the foundation of this relationship is the excessive use of resources and the fracture of a global balance, whose heavy consequences have already been registered for a long time now.
Our planet is at great risk due to the changes led by man, who has already modified 77% of landmass, often by dismembering nature in order to make space for residential, industrial or commercial areas, but also for livestock farming and agricultural activities. Only 23% of landmass remains intact and what the experts are worried about is the exponentially growing trend: from 1990 man has devastated 3.3 millions square km of land. That part of land which is referred to as “wilderness” (by definition “wild nature”), meaning those areas where currently no human invasive activity has been registered, agriculture included, is constantly decreasing and represents only 23% of the whole planet.
Black Summer Australia 2019/2020 by Felix Dierich, Germany, 2022
Das Warten (The Waiting) by Volker Schlecht, Germany, 2023
Fire Season by Quinn Else, United States, 2021
Mater Inerta by Adria E. Goy, Spain, 2022
Mountain Land: A Celebration by Kris Ong, Singapore, 2022
Nuisance Bears by Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden, Canada, 2021
Sirens by Ilaria Di Carlo, Germany and Italy, 2022
The Coast by Sohrab Hura, India, 2021