River Memories
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2016
June 2 - 8, 2016
Along a river in Turin, over 1,000 people live in a sprawling makeshift shantytown, a multiethnic melting pot slated to be razed by the government. This strikingly shot vérité documentary captures the last days of a vibrant community and is an elegiac record of a vanishing way of life.
Along a river in Turin, over 1,000 people live in a sprawling makeshift shantytown, a vibrant multiethnic melting pot slated to be razed by the government. As some residents are relocated to public housing and others are left dispossessed, this vérité documentary captures everyday moments from the last days of life in the community—children playing amid the rubble, a family praying fervently at home, revelry at a late-night fireside gathering. A haunting, strikingly shot work of anthropological preservation, River Memories is an elegiac record of a vanishing way of life.
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