Apr. 17 – After competing in the “Eyes and Lenses Ethnographic Film” in Warsaw in recent days, the documentary film ” Les Fleurs à la Fenetre” by Italian-Canadian director Giovanni Princigalli (born in Bari but living in Montreal), is in competition at the Festival International du Film Panafricain in Cannes until Sunday. The documentary film, along with another film, “Ho fatto il mio coraggio,” will be screened on April 29 and 30 at the National Film Archive of Santiago de Chile, in the presence of the author, thanks to the support of the Conseil des Arts du Canada and of the Italian Institute of Culture in Santiago. Princigalli will organize a cinema workshop on the same days for children at a school in Santiago. From April 22 to April 26, thanks to a grant from the Conseil des Arts du Canada, the director will follow a film training for children directed by Alejandro Malowicki. Princigalli will later organize a workshop for children in the town of El Dorardo in the Argentine province of Misiones, on the border with Paraguay and Brazil. His documentary “Prima o Dopo Sant’Anna” will be competing ethno Film Festival Rovigni, in Istria, April 24 to 27.
