"Mud":the May flood in Emilia-Romagna is already a film

A short film recounts the days of "climate lockdown" of the inhabitants of Pieve del Pino, on the Bolognese Apennines

BOLOGNA – The flood that hit Emilia-Romagna in May is already a film: a short film, to be precise, which is entitled "Fango" and bears the signature of director Rita Marzio Maralla.“Floods, landslides and mudslides occur almost everywhere, drastically changing the shape of the landscape.Pieve del Pino is located in the municipality of Sasso Marconi, close to the Bolognese hills:in those days multiple landslides prevented the inhabitants from moving and reaching the inhabited centers", reads the synopsis of the film:“Fango” is therefore the visual story of a personal experience of “climate lockdown”.

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THE SHORT FILM ON THE OPENDDB PLATFORM

The short, available for free on the OpenDDB platform, will be screened this evening at Vag61 in Bologna as part of a preview of the Terra di Tutti Film Festival which will take place from 5 October.“The waterways.Stories and visions of climate change", is the title of the initiative, presented as follows:"That
impact does climate change have on the lives of people and the places they live in?What do we know about the climate future of our planet and what impact do our behaviors have?An opportunity to explore together, through debates and photographic and cinematographic visions, the point of view of those who talk about, study and fight climate change".Participating in the debate will be Michele Lapini (photojournalist), Giuditta Pellegrini (journalist), Simone Ficicchia (Ultima Generazione), Ciro Gardi (university professor, Cospe director) and Margherita Romanelli (WeWorld).Followed by the screening of “Fango” and the film “Bangladesh:Sunken Country” by Vincent Prado and Alice Guilhamon.

“LIVES CAN'T BE REPAIRED LIKE ROADS OR WALLS”

“It is important to keep a high level of attention on floods.The May event had a great impact both on the territory, because it involved a large portion of the region - underlines Lapini in the press conference presenting the Terra di Tutti Film Festival - and on the community, because it undermined many lives and these are not repairable like a road or the wall of a house."It is therefore "important to continue talking about these issues, beyond the more or less political diatribes on compensation - adds Lapini - so that these floods can teach us what actions should be taken, the reasons why they caused so much damage and how to react together to all this."