War is over
a film by Stefano Obino / 2021 / 74'
camera William Chicarelli Filho
editor Stefano Obino
sound design Tihomir Vrbanec
executive producer Tania Masi
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synopsis / Iraqi Kurdistan, 2018. The end of a war is never its end. One year after the fight against ISIS, the scars are everywhere: ruins, dust, memories that refuse to settle. Yet, among refugee camps and shattered cities, life pushes forward. A pool in a bombed city, a barber offering small rituals in a camp, an old prison turned into a kindergarten: fragments of life emerging where destruction once ruled, carried by a raw post traumatic euphoria, an urgent impulse to live again.
Bio / After years of working for various international networks, in 2014 I decided to focus on projects that I felt were mine, moving from a journalistic approach to more artistic storytelling. I first made "Bare-Handed", a short documentary published by The Guardian, and then, in 2021, "War is over" (73'), which premiered at the Roma International Film Festival 2021. Reviewed as "a cinematic poem about the universal resilience of the human spirit", "War is over" was awarded at the Nastri d'Argento 2022 - Italian Critics' National Award.
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festivals / Alice nella Cittá 2021, Amsterdam Kurdisch Film Festival, Liburnia Film Festival, Achtung Berlin Film Festival, Karama Jordan FF, NHRIFF - Nepal Human rights IFF.
award: Nastri d'Argento 2022 - Cinema del Reale
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