From 4 to 12 november, Florence will host the 64th Festival dei Popoli, offering up 124 documentary films and welcoming guests along the lines of Oscar-winner Liv Ullmann, on the occasion of Dheeraj Akolkar’s biopic dedicated to the actress, Liv Ullmann - A Road Less Travelled [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], and singer Pete Doherty, who’ll be seeking out artistic redemption in Katia deVidas’ Peter Doherty: Stranger in My Own Skin [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]. Three masterclasses are on the agenda, led by Portugal’s Pedro Costa, Austria’s Ulrich Seidl - who’ll be presenting Wicked Games - Rimini Sparta, a retelling of the stories in his latest works Rimini [+lee también:
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Directed by Alessandro Stellino, the festival will be opened by the American production Joan Baez I Am a Noise, which paints an intimate portrait of the legendary American singer and activist at the hands of Karen O’Connor, Miri Navasky and Maeve O’Boyle. The festival’s International Competition will present 18 titles, whether feature films, medium-length films and short films, assessed by a jury composed of director Nataša Urban (Serbia), producer Alice Lemaire (Belgium) and curator and distributor Johannes Klein (Germany). Stealing focus among the feature films offered up are Hypermoon [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by France’s Clémence Davigo, in which a group of elderly people speak of the abuse they suffered in the Fifties and Sixties in the Mercury Correctional Facility for Children; Zinzindurrunkarratz by Spain’s Oskar Alegria, who presented his second film Zumiriki [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] at the Venice Film Festival in 2019 and is now returning with a reflection on film; Je ne sais pas où vous serez demain, which sees French filmmaker Emmanuel Roy entering Marseille’s administrative detention centre (CRA), where a doctor provides advice to migrants awaiting repatriation; Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano [+lee también:
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entrevista: Cyril Aris
ficha de la película] by Cyril Aris, which takes us behind the scenes on the set of Mounia Akl’s first feature film, Costa Brava, Lebanon [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], whose filming was jeopardised by an explosion in the port of Beirut in 2020; The Buriti Flower [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (Cuba/Germany/Norway) by Cuba’s Luis Alejandro Yero; The Mother of All Lies by Morocco’s Asmae El Moudir, which jointly won this year’s Golden Eye for Best Documentary in Cannes; and the medium-length movie Taxibol by Italy’s Tommaso Santambrogio, revolving around an encounter between Filippino filmmaker Lav Diaz and a Cuban taxi driver.

Seven documentaries are set to grace the Italian Competition, ranging from Dalla parte sbagliata by Luca Miniero to Vista mare [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Julia Gutweniger and Florian Kofler, Souvenirs of War by Georg Zeller to Agàpe by Velania A Mesay, Nessun posto al mondo by Vanina Lappa to Sting Like a Bee [+lee también:
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Likewise worth a mention, in the Doc Highlights line-up, is the inter-generational dialogue between women presented in Grandmother’s Footsteps by Lola Peploe (showcasing Bernardo Bertolucci’s last screen appearance) and Oscar-winner Luc Jacquet’s journey to the South Pole in Antarctica Calling [+lee también:
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