Gianfranco Rosi on DocAlliance
Again a generous offer from DocAlliance, concerning Gianfranco Rosi, Italian documentarian, who won the Golden Lion in Venice last year with Bernardo Bertolucci as chair of the jury. This is the text from the vod and view the three great works from the director, for free until May 11:
Untraditional protagonists, perhaps eccentrics, yet always with a clear world view. Such are the people depicted in the documentaries by Gianfranco Rosi. The director uses the camera rather as a microscope, observing the events around him with endless patience and care. In his eyes, seemingly simple and banal stories become urgent and complex accounts of the state of contemporary society. It is the very combination of inner determination and meditative observation, with which Rosi has filmed the everyday lives of Romans living in the vicinity of the major traffic artery Grande Raccordo Anulare for two years, that has charmed the Venice jury.
The surprising and very first documentary winner of Venice is available to viewers from the Czech Republic and Slovakia in an online premiere on Monday, May 5 at DAFilms.cz. For the first time in the portal’s history, the viewers have a unique chance to decide whether and how much they want to pay for the premiere viewing of SACRO GRA. Will they appreciate the Golden Lion by a full fee, a symbolic support or will they use the opportunity of watching the winning film for free? Let’s wait and see!
All the other viewers from across the globe can watch the director’s previous films in a unique online retrospective in the week from May 5 to 11 at DAFilms.com completely for free! Meet a Mexican mass murderer in EL SICARIO, ROOM 164 (2010) while safely seated in your couch at home. Pop out to the North American desert where a group of social outcasts lives in self-imposed solitude in BELOW SEA LEVEL (2008). Last but not least, do not forget to sail the Ganges River with an untraditional guide. BOATMAN (1993) is waiting for you!
