to edited by Geneva Elkann

A series of valuable documentaries, chosen from Ginevra Elkann, from major international festivals. A sophisticated look, signed from excellent directors, at great musicians, contemporary artists, writers, poets...

program

Sunday, June 28 at 4 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.

Frau Hall

**Amy Winehouse**

by Asif Kapadia

(2015/UK/90')

free event with reservations required

The documentary traces the singer-songwriter's biographical events in chronological order through videos, interviews, testimonies of friends and unreleased songs. The narrative kicks off with Amy still a chubby girl with no backcombed hair, no tattoos on her arms and unaware of her talent, moves through her consecration in 2007 to undisputed star and charismatic _jazz singer _of the caliber of Ella Fitzgerald, and ends with her tragic end from cardiac arrest to only twenty-seven years old. Alcohol and drug excesses failed to to make an unapologetic portrait of Amy, but generated, rather, that of a great little woman with a unique talent.

friday July 3 at 6 p.m.

Pegasus Hall

**In Search of Chopin**

by Philip Grabsky

(2014/UK/110')

British documentary filmmaker Philip Grabsky explores the life of Polish pianist and composer Frédéric François Chopin, whose tomb to Paris remains a place of pilgrimage and whose music continues to to live on in from concert halls around the world. Grabsky travels across Europe to study Chopin, a man plagued throughout his life by illness, but who nevertheless wrote some of the most celebrated compositions of all time. Grabsky has already produced biographies on Hadyn, Beethoven and Mozart.

Saturday, July 4 at 6 p.m.

Pegasus Hall

In Search of Beethoven

by Philip Grabsky

(2009/UK/139')

A comprehensive documentary on the life, history, and music of composer and pianist, Ludwig van Beethoven. From his earliest piano concertos to the immortal notes of the Fifth and Ninth Symphonies, Beethoven's music remains beloved and popular through the ages._ In Search of Beethoven _unites leading artists and experts from around the world with interviews designed to to reveal new insights into this celebrated composer. Above all, however, the film addresses the central focus of Beethoven's "heroic" life, plagued by the constant struggle to overcome the tragic fate of being stricken from deafness.

Sunday 5 July at 18.00

Pegasus Hall

In Search of Mozart

by Philip Grabsky

(2007/UK/128')

Created to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Mozart's birth, the film is produced in collaboration with leading orchestras and musicians from around the world. In Search of Mozart is the first feature-length film about Mozart's life and traces it through his music (with more than eighty works reproduced) and dense correspondence, revealing striking similarities between the composer's works and experiences.

friday July 10 at 6 p.m.

Pegasus Hall

El botón de nácar

by Patricio Guzmán

italian preview

(2015/France, Chile, Spain/82')

A mother-of-pearl button encrusted in the rust of a rail at the bottom of the sea: it is a trace of the desaparecidos of Villa Grimaldi to Santiago, the great Chilean detention and torture center under Pinochet's dictatorship. A flowing river and the tinkling of waterfalls: it is the water song at the heart of the culture of the Selknams, a native South American population slaughtered by the colonizers. Two massacres and the memory of water: these are the narrative keys to tell the story of a country and its still open wounds, to travel through Chile and its beauty, Chile and its violence. In an exceptional film that places side by side the rawness of history and the poetry of nature.

Silver Bear to Berlin 2015.

Saturday, July 11 at 6 p.m.

Pegasus Hall

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon

by Douglas Tirola

European preview

(2015/UK, US/98')

"The National Lampoon"-just the name and anyone remembers a cover, a cartoon, a slogan from one of the most legendary humor magazines in history. But perhaps few remember the names of the two contributors who were one of its wildest and most brilliant souls, Doug Kenney and Henry Beard. Perhaps not everyone remembers 1970s America, the circle of young intellectuals and pop culture, the creative freedom partly fueled from cannabis and alcohol. In a world still reeling from the tragedy of "Charlie Hebdo," this film traces the portrait of a generation and a satirical universe that seemed invincible, showcasing a rich harvest of pages and drawings, words and images of an unforgettable season.

Among the great films at Sundance 2015 premiere to Biografilm Festival.

Sunday 12 July at 16.00

Pegasus Hall

Best of Enemies

by Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville

European preview

(2014/United States/86')

Summer 1968: Republican William Buckley and Democrat Gore Vidal clash live on ABC. Each is convinced that the other's ideas will lead the United States to ruin. And amidst refined political dialectic and personal insults, blows to the face and blows below the belt, their face to face acquires the pace and violence of a heavyweight boxing match. Nothing like it had ever been seen on TV, the ratings go through the roof. And the very concept of debating ideas on the small screen undergoes a Copernican revolution: the focus is on confrontation, not ideas. This compelling account documents the birth of politics on television as we know it today: and in doing so reveals its mechanisms.

Among the great films at Sundance 2015 premiere to Biografilm Festival.