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Trieste hosts the Palaeomovies Film Fest 2024

Trieste and the Palaeomovies Film Fest: documentaries, workshops and previews to discover prehistory at the Civic Museum of Natural History.

Trieste hosts the Palaeomovies Film Fest 2024.

On the morning of Friday 22 November, at the Museum of Oriental Art, the press conference was held to present the sixth edition of the Palaeomovies Film Fest, which was attended by the municipal councilor for Culture and Tourism Policies Giorgio Rossi.
Trieste ospita il Palaeomovies Film Fest 2024
The curator of the exhibition was also present, Roberto Micheli.

"When I read the Palæomovies program – declared the municipal councilor for Culture and Tourism Policies Giorgio Rossi – I was surprised by the value of the proposed events, I remember that these are events capable of attracting the attention and interest of a wide audience and of all age groups. Congratulations to those who work on this project, with professionalism and passion. "

"IOur Natural History Museum - he concluded George Rossi - it is proving to be fully up to the future that awaits it in Porto Vecchio-Porto Vivo, in this regard I am also thinking of the programs we have for the Museo de Henriquez, which I am working on."

From November 27th to December 4st the Civic Museum of Natural History (via dei Tominz 2024) organizes “Palæomovies Film Fest XNUMX”, the review that introduces the public, through documentary cinema and meetings with experts, to recent research and the most interesting discoveries on the prehistory of humanity.

Palæomovies, edited by Roberto Micheli with the collaboration of Deborah Arbulla, It was born from the interest in communicating themes and issues concerning evolution and paleoanthropology, cultural diversity, the formation of sociality, the development of the first complex societies.

This year the exhibition will offer some insights on the antiquity of modern man, on the origin of music, on the role of women in Paleolithic societies, on burials as sources of knowledge of the identities of prehistoric peoples and on life in the pile dwellings of the Alpine arc. The 2024 edition presents the Italian premieres of the films: “Sapiens, et la musique fut” by Pascal Goblot and “They Called Her Jamila – The secrets of Stone Age Ba'ja” by Barbara Fally-Puskás.

Two recent and innovative Italian productions in the field of popularization of prehistory are also presented. In addition to this, there is a special event dedicated to the castellieri, the protohistoric settlements on hills that have left their imposing bastions in numerous sites in the Karst and in the surroundings of Trieste.

During the days of the festival, the public will be involved in a journey back in time to learn about the behaviors, traditions and customs of our ancestors near and far. For the occasion, the Civic Museum of Natural History also offers workshops, guided tours and animated films dedicated to children and families.

The initiative was born from a close collaboration between the Municipality of Trieste and the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for Friuli Venezia Giulia, with the support of the Society for Prehistory and Protohistory of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region OdV. Also thanks to the contribution of the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, the 2024 edition will be marked by a rich program of documentaries introduced by experts. “La Cappella Underground” is responsible for the organization and technical services.

Trieste ospita il Palaeomovies Film Fest 2024

Program

Wednesday, November 27, 17:XNUMX p.m.
Hema. A story of castellieri by Francesca Mucignato Italy, 2022, 69' production: Argo Medi@ Story. Italian version.

Docu-Fiction inspired by life in the castellieri during the Iron Age, filmed between the sea and the Carso. Before the birth of Trieste, the lands of Caput Adriae were already inhabited by people who lived in fortified villages on the hills that dominate the territory. Hema is a little girl who lives in the Iron Age in the hillfort of Elleri. Her father, a salt merchant, becomes the protagonist of a sad rite that Hema, in a sort of game, will imitate.

But a parallel in our days sees another little girl similar to Hema, who, while on a school trip to the same castle, accidentally brings to light a find which will evoke an emotional bond with the past. The screening will be attended by the director Francesca Mucignato, the director of photography Paolo Forti, the author of the texts Lidia Rupel, the author of the original drawings Guido Zanettini. A discussion on the theme of the castellieri and the promotion of their
knowledge. The authors of the documentary film will be present: Roberto Micheli – Superintendency ABAP-FVG, Deborah Arbulla and Nicola Bressi – Civic Museum of Natural History, Paolo Paronuzzi – Society for Prehistory and Protohistory of FVG.

Friday 29 November, 17 pm
Lady Sapiens: à la recherche des femmes de la Préhistoire [Lady Sapiens: in search of women in prehistory] by Thomas Cirotteau. France, Canada 2021, 90'.
Production: Little Big Story, Idéacom International in association with Ubisoft
French version, Italian subtitles

What do we know about prehistoric women? For 150 years, researchers have underestimated their role by interpreting their discoveries based on the preconceptions of their time. Paleolithic women have become prisoners of clichés. Today, a new generation of researchers, many of whom are women, is overturning this model. By meeting scientists at excavation sites or in their laboratories, a new portrait of these women emerges: we discover them as hunters, artists, clan leaders... And what if this ice age had also been the age of women? For the first
time, “Lady Sapiens” tells their story. Presentation by Paola Visentini
(Friulian Museum of Natural History).

Friday 29 November, 20 pm
Ancient Traces. Federico Basso's Life in a Stilt House
Italy 2024, 6'- production: ETT Solution SpA
Italian version

A short film in Virtual Reality set in the Parco Archeo Natura di Fiavé in the province of Trento, a UNESCO world heritage site, and divided into six scenes, created to tell through immersive storytelling in VR the life of one of the oldest agricultural communities in Europe that, between 3.800 BC and 1.500 BC, built and inhabited prehistoric Alpine villages on stilts. A window into daily life in a prehistoric village, where the location becomes the canvas on which to illustrate the daily life of the inhabitants, and retraces the daily activities of the prehistoric society that inhabited the areas of Fiavè.

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Memoirs of an underwater world – Mémoires d'outre-lacs by Philippe Nicolet
Switzerland 2021, 58'. production: Association Palafittalp / Studio NVP3D
scientific consultancy: Pierre Corboud
Italian version

Thanks to the particular environmental conditions and the perfect conditions for the conservation of organic remains, European wetlands preserve important prehistoric monuments from a distant past.. The prehistoric pile-dwelling sites of the Alpine arc, included in the UNESCO World Heritage list since 2011, represent important archaeological and paleoenvironmental archives that allow us to know the life and forms of adaptation of the first European agricultural communities to the humid areas that occurred during prehistory. The film presents an extraordinary insight into the world of our Neolithic and Bronze Age pile-dwelling ancestors. Presentation by Pierre Corboud (University of Geneva, Switzerland).

Saturday 30 November, 10pm
Sapiens, et la musique fut-And There Was Music by Pascal Goblot
France, 2021, 53' production: Grand Angle Productions, ARTE
French version, Italian subtitles

Music is everywhere: in bars, in churches, in shops, in the headphones of our smartphones… How can we explain this universality and diversity? Would it be possible to trace it back to an origin? In search of archaeological traces, trying to reconstruct what the music of our ancestors could have been, we will start with the oldest known instrument: a bone flute, now estimated to be over 40.000 years old! We will then explore other traces of music in prehistory: archaeological remains that we now interpret as instruments, engravings and paintings, and everything we can deduce about the Cro-Magnons' relationship with music.

Trieste ospita il Palaeomovies Film Fest 2024

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The mysterious Stone Age village: What the graves of Ba'ja tell us – They Called Her Jamila – The secrets of Stone Age Ba'ja [The mysterious Stone Age village: What the graves of Ba'ja tell us] by Barbara Puskas. Austria, 2022, 52'. production: ORF III, SR, EPO Film, in association with ARTE, ORF E
German version, Italian subtitles

In 2018, archaeologists excavating a Stone Age settlement on the Ba'ja plateau in Jordan made a fascinating discovery: the remains of an eight-year-old girl, buried under the floor of a house, along with grave goods and an ancient necklace. Inspired by the jewel, scientists named the deceased Jamila – “the beautiful one.” Their discovery offers a groundbreaking insight into Neolithic human societies: Ba'ja was settled about 9.000 years ago, when humans had abandoned their previous existence as hunter-gatherers to become sedentary. Presentation by Andrea Pessina (Regional Secretariat of MiC for Friuli Venezia Giulia).

Saturday 30 November, 17pm
The enigmas of Cabeço da Mina. The Mysteries of Cabeço da Mina [The riddles of Cabeço da Mina]
by Rui Pedro Lamy. Portugal, 2019, 27'-production: Arqueohoje, ETHNO, Município de Vila Flor
Portuguese version, Italian subtitles

As in a cosmic rotation with its epicenter in the Vilariça Valley, the documentary presents the main known archaeological remains of the Trásos-Montes region in Portugal, from the art of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Mazouco, Côa) to the habitats, megalithic funerary architectures and other sacred places of the first farmers and shepherds. At the heart of the story, Cabeço da Mina, a small hill located in a valley that stands out as the land of the first agricultural communities: here, starting from the 80s, the largest concentration of stelae dating back to the 3rd millennium BC at a single site in Western Europe.

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Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers: Inhabitants of the White Nile in Recent Prehistory by Marco Tomaselli, Donatella Usai
Italy, Sudan, 2023, 43'. production: Sudanese and Sub-Saharan Studies Center ETS, Treviso.
English version, Italian subtitles

The documentary illustrates aspects of the life of hunter-gatherers-fishermen who lived on the banks of the White Nile in the Late Pleistocene-early Holocene. A narrative made possible by the results of the interdisciplinary work carried out at the al-Khiday site by the Center for Sudanese and Sub-Saharan Studies (ETS) of Treviso, in collaboration with the University of Padua, Parma and Milano. A film by Marco Tomaselli with the scientific supervision of Donatella Usai and original music by Adriano Orrù and Silvia Corda. Presentation by Donatella Usai (Center for Sudanese and Sub-Saharan Studies).

Saturday 30 November, 20pm
Dames et princes de la Préhistoire – Ladies and Princes of Prehistory
[Ladies and Princes of Prehistory] by Pauline Coste. France, Czech Republic, 2022, 52'
production: Enfant Sauvage Productions, Day for Night, ARTE, Ceska Televize
French version, Italian subtitles

March 28, 1872, on the border between France and Italy, the archaeologist Émile Rivière unearths a human skeleton that he believes to be very ancient, today dated to less than 24.000 years old. This important discovery has changed our perception of prehistoric man and, above all, of prehistoric woman. The woman we now call the “Lady of Caviglione”, from the name of the cave where she was found, was initially mistaken for a man because of her robustness and the richness of her grave goods. His study over the course of the twentieth century also tells how our vision of these prehistoric societies has changed. Presentation by Fabio Negrino (University of Genoa).

Sunday 1 December, 10 hours
Homo Sapiens, les nouvelles origines – Homo Sapiens: New Origins [Homo sapiens: the new origins] by Olivier Julien. France, Morocco, 2020, 90'.
production: Bellota Film, ARTE, in association with SNRT, TV2M Maroc, Mamamia Films
French version, Italian and English subtitles

A skull with an elongated face and prominent brow ridges was discovered in 1960 by a worker in a mine in Djebel Irhoud, Morocco. Could it be a Neanderthal? Carbon 14 dates the discovery back to more than 40.000 years ago, but in the 80s French researcher Jean-Jacques Hublin and Moroccan professor Abdelouahed Ben-Ncer advanced the hypothesis that the skull is much older and belongs to a Homo sapiens. The seventh layer of sediment reveals a stunning treasure: the remains of five distinct individuals. Thermoluminescence dating places their origin at 300.000 years ago… Presentation by Marco Peresani (University of Ferrara).

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The Man of Val Rosna by Stefano Zampini-Italy, 2024, 20'
production: Municipality of Sovramonte and University of Ferrara
Italian version

Docu-drama showing some moments in the life of the Val Rosna Man, a hunter who lived 14.000 years ago in the current territory of the Municipality of Sovramonte (Belluno). The burial of this hunter was discovered in the 80s by Aldo Villabruna and studied by Professor Alberto Broglio of the University of Ferrara. Hunting, community life, dental care and a funeral rite are the moments of life staged. A film by Stefano Zampini with photography by Daniele Simoncelli, scientific supervision by Marco Peresani and original music by Duck Chagall (Francesco Ambrosini).

Admission is free until all available seats are taken.
Appointments dedicated to the little ones, coordinated by Deborah Arbulla, paleontologist curator of the Civic Museum of Natural History.

Friday 29th November and Saturday 30th November at 17pm
The Primitives – A Whole Other Prehistory by Nick Park
GB, 2018, 81' – animated film for children (from 6 years)

At the dawn of time, among prehistoric creatures and unspoiled nature, life is perfect for the primitive Dag and his adorable and bizarre tribe. The tranquility of the Stone Age is however shattered by the arrival of the powerful Bronze Age, which forces everyone to abandon their homes. The clash of civilizations takes the form of an epic challenge in a game that Dag had never heard of until then, unlike his enemies, who are already masters on the field thanks to Dribblo. Against all odds of victory and against the advice of the prudent and wise Barbo, Dag will teach Grullo, Gordo and the other clumsy cavemen how to play… soccer!

Saturday, November 30, 10am–13pm
Casting workshop by the Civic Museum of Natural History of Trieste
Elide Giovannini, Elizabeth Piselli and Ingrid Zivic

Sunday 1 December, 10am-13pm
Casting workshop by the Civic Museum of Natural History of Trieste
Elide Giovannini, Elizabeth Piselli and Ingrid Zivic. Guided tours of the Antonio and Bruno dinosaur rooms by Kevin Milocco, geologist and teacher.

Free activities with mandatory reservation by writing to
newsmuseiscientifici@comune.trieste.it by 12pm on November 29th.

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