Highlights from the 5th Italy Green Film Festival

The screenings of films in the Official Selection of the 5th Italy Green Film Festival continue in the most beautiful places and buildings of the capital. Applause from the audience for the French film 'Bad Seed' and the Polish 'The Seed of Awareness 40 min'. Applause also for the Dutch documentary 'The Walking Forest' and for the animated film 'Bo and Trash'. National Premiere for ErdKinder by Italian director Tore Manca, an intense and profound film, capable of touching the deepest chords of the soul on themes related to the environment and sustainability. A challenge carried forward by students with the Erkinder method, an educational and teaching technique where the function of the teacher is precisely this: to question the student on what he has really understood, trying to stimulate that competence of problem posing and rising to raise more questions than answers. EedKinder is an auteur film that through multiple languages addresses the discomfort of a generation with one necessity: to recover beauty, light, education, environment, a wordless dialogue between parents and children, a story told through images. Through the transposition with the use of cinematic language, the 'Erdkinder' project aims to trigger dynamics of social consciousness and affirm principles and relationships of solidarity that can sensitize society, especially young people. The forest represents the neutral space in which generations confront each other 'on equal terms'. 'Everything intimately connected on this planet is the special bond that exists between childhood and nature, irreplaceable. The call of the forest represents the necessity to reconnect with one's origins; roots that bring back to the spontaneity of actions such as walking, running, jumping, and climbing, actions essential for our development, as well as knowing one's body.' The values and the green and social spirit embodied by the IGFF fully match this film which, since its launch, has garnered interest among viewers and professionals. A journey that will lead to the final phases of the film festival that this year has reached a really high level of maturity: the fifth edition of the Italy Green Film Festival is a milestone for a continuously evolving path, made of innovation and desire to best capture the themes related to the environment and sustainability without filters and without fear. 'I am proud of the works in competition in the fifth edition - says Pierre Marchionne, who has always believed in this project - linking school and cinematographic art, the power of images to the magic of cinema to share here messages, those testimonies that every film possesses. This was the goal I had set myself. The requests for participation grow year after year as does the interest of critics and industry gurus. This fills us with pride and pushes us to always do better.'