Uno svizzero, un'arma.
La Svizzera ha un rapporto con le armi che si basa sul concetto di libertà individuale, nato forse già con l'alleanza del 1291 o con il mito di Guglielmo Tell. Il rapporto degli svizzeri con le armi continua ancora oggi per varie ragioni: a detta dei più fedeli difensori, primariamente per proteggere la madrepatria e tutelare la libertà individuale.
Uno svizzero, un’arma ci porta nel cuore della Confederazione Elvetica per meglio conoscere un’antica tradizione che non ha smesso di affascinare. Un mondo caratterizzato da personaggi singolari che raccontano la loro esperienza e passione per le armi: campioni olimpici di tiro sportivo, famiglie di tiratori svizzeri, politici ed altri ci raccontano perché il tiro e le armi sono, o non dovrebbero essere, così presenti in Svizzera.
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HERITAGE
The descendants of William Tell
Switzerland, that famous neutral country, is (according to recent statistics) the third most armed
population on Earth. This is partly due to one of its most popular sports “Shooting”.
In the heart of Switzerland there’s a fascinating world of guns, bizarre, interesting characters, different perspectives, controversial ideas and, above all, an exceptional tradition that lives on.
Swiss olympic shooting champions, families of Swiss shooters, politicians and others, tell us why shooting and weapons are, or why they shouldn’t be, so popular in Switzerland.
Edu: the picture
Web.Doc. film 2013 - ... (work in progress)
For Palestine it’s Masafer Yatta. For Israel it has become Firing Zone 918. This is the village where Edu, an Argentinian photographer, has moved to in 2009: the Awad family is now his family, Arabic his language and photo-documentary his life and duty in this part of the world.
The world-known conflict is usually nothing more than a background noise to the simple life of this population and the beauty of the landscape, but what’s the inner motivation that makes Edu live in caves in the desert, surrounded by ready-to-fire settlements, for years?
The world-known conflict is usually nothing more than a background noise to the simple life of this population and the beauty of the landscape, but what’s the inner motivation that makes Edu live in caves in the desert, surrounded by ready-to-fire settlements, for years?
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Stories from Bosnia
Documentary film about the past, present and future of a boy from Sarajevo.
25 years old Ammar, told me that during the war he used to play "snipers" with his friends in street of Sarajevo. To day Ammar works with a Swiss association helping people in his country. Ammar has a dream, come to Switzerland and find out some of the snipers that kill many of his friends and bring them to justice.
Jennifer, ex cashier of a well know bank in Switzerland tell us that during the war, she was cashing checks of many Serbians means how cross the frontiers with Swiss military rifles to spend the weekend killing people in Sarajevo and making some extra money. To day this same man are driving buses in the city of Lugano.
Ammar: "We used to watch them through the ruined buildings in the city of Sarajevo, and then we would let them see us. We used to hide quickly before they could shoot us. After the shooting we used to run fast to find the bullet they had just fired. The prize was their bullet. We used to collect them...*
David: "So you mean the snipers were shooting at you, and you were running to get the bullets?...."
Ammar: "....Yes, and that was the funny part of it at the time, it's crazy. You know - now that I'm older - I realize that they didn't what to kill us. They were playing too...*
Corralito
Documentary film 2015-18
Corralito is a small village in the south of the province of Cordoba, with 1000 inhabitants. The town's economy is based on cereals "silos" handled by the cooperative and monitored by the local political power. The town has two churches, one Catholics and one Protestant. The town has two hairs salons, two clubs.
The town has two parts; This side of the railway, the white rich people which are the descendants of Italians families that funding the town and the other side of the railway commonly called "Los criollos", the descendants of those how work the land for those how funding the town.
Some of its most famous inhabitants tell us how it's to live there. Simple stories, a village where time seems to not pass.
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Corralito is a small village in the south of the province of Cordoba, with 1000 inhabitants. The town's economy is based on cereals "silos" handled by the cooperative and monitored by the local political power. The town has two churches, one Catholics and one Protestant. The town has two hairs salons, two clubs.
The town has two parts; This side of the railway, the white rich people which are the descendants of Italians families that funding the town and the other side of the railway commonly called "Los criollos", the descendants of those how work the land for those how funding the town.
Some of its most famous inhabitants tell us how it's to live there. Simple stories, a village where time seems to not pass.
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Kuarteto,
Historias de una ciudad que respira al ritmo del tunga tunga.
Documentary film 2013-2019 ... (work in progress)
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La Mona Jiménes (link)
La Lore Jiménes, la hija de la Mona. (link)
El Carli Jiménes (Link)
Fernando Maldonado, el Pato
Marcos, el Productor. Dueño y padrone del baile. (link)
El trapo, el Limpia vidrios. (Link)
Antonio, el cafetero.
Estela Angelica, la cigarrera.