events

Food&Water 2017

International Short Film Festival on Sustainability, 2nd edition. 22 may 2017, Santa Chiara Lab, Siena

Castillo y el Armado

by Pedro Harres, Brasile, 2014, 12' Castillo is a young dockworker who lives in the coast between Brazil and Uruguay. On a windy night, he faces his own brutality on the line of the fishhook.

La Cocha lagoon

by Alvaro De La Cruz, Colombia, 2016, 3'41'' It is a journey between canals, bridges and docks until the solemn water mirror of the lagoon where the majestic island Corota wildlife sanctuary appears to delight us with its beauty.

Ángel

by Juan Ferrer Vidal, Spagna, 2016, 6'54'' Angel wakes up from a beautiful dream to face the harsh reality that he lives since he was left with nothing.

Happy without money

by Mahyar Hamidian, Germania, 2016, 15'41'' Raphael Fellmer is an activist, who lived for some years in a money strike to raise awareness for food waste. Everything started with a moneyless journey from The Netherlands to Mexico.

Opportunity

by Jazeer Thekkekara, India, 2016, 4'44'' Water,water is life. Without water there is no life. Everybody is an Opportunity to save water.

Plastic Garbage - Scourge of the Seas

by Giacomo Mantovani, Regno Unito, 2014, 4'38'' The documentary is about the huge amount of plastic waste in the environment. Plastic lasts for a very long time. Plastic breaks in many tiny pieces, but it never disappears completely from the water. All of this little pieces keep breaking until they become so small that is no more possible to see them, but they are still there, contaminating the water.

Farming in 2020

by Miriam Steen, Germania, 2015, 2' How will be organic farming in future? Farmer Mechtenbach tries to defend the health of his Highland cattle against growing pollution using new nanotechnology.

Naturally NANO

by Miriam Steen, Germania, 2016, 2' Customers in supermarkets are doubtful - do they get "organic" food when it is labelled "organic"? A young scientist has made a new invention that brings clarity - the nano scanner.

Waterbackpack PAUL

by Miriam Steen, Germania, 2015, 7' The world is a paradise but sometimes catastrophies break in. Tsunamis, earthquakes: fatal polluted water after environmental disasters is a huge danger for people's life. A research from Cotonou to Kassel how people find solutions like a professor and his students who invent an ingenious box to clean water without chemicals and electricity.

Information:

In 2015 Visionaria Festival and the University of Siena, together with the SDSN Network, gave birth to the first edition of the short film competition "Food & Water". The competition was opened to authors from all over the world who face in their work the problematic related to the distribution of resources in the world and environmental sustainability.

For 2016, the experience of "Food & water" has been renewed and will be shown during an event which will be held in Siena on 22 May 2017.

The jury of the second edition of Food & Water is composed by:

Hamid El Zoheiry, President of EMUNI (Euro-Mediterranean University - Slovenia)

Angelo Riccaboni, University of Siena and coordinator of the Prima project

Elena Cadel, Barilla Bcfn Foundation and Food sustainability Media Award

Paolo Martino, Middle East-based director