Publications
Revolution on Film
Women Filmmakers: Trailblazers
Lessico del reale
Title: Revolution on Film - Tribute Sarah Maldoror
Author: AA VV
Series: The Curators’ Quaderno
The Curators’ Quaderno is a collection of notebook-style publications, conceived by the Calliope Arts Foundation, in collaboration with The Florentine Press, to raise awareness of
women’s contributions to the fields of art, science and culture.
This issue was published in conjunction with the 66th edition of the Festival dei Popoli – the Florence-based international documentary film festival (1 to 9 November 2025) – under the
artistic directorship of Alessandro Stellino and Claudia Maci’s management.
The festival’s tribute to Sarah Maldoror is part of a collaboration between Festival
dei Popoli and Calliope Arts Foundation, within the framework of ‘Women Trailblazers in Documentary Cinema’, a project aimed at rediscovering and celebrating female directors,
whose work has been undervalued or forgotten.
Title: Women Filmmakers: Trailblazers
Author: AA VV
Series: The Curators’ Quaderno
The Curators’ Quaderno is a collection of notebook-style publications, conceived by the Calliope Arts Foundation, in collaboration with The Florentine Press, to raise awareness of
women’s contributions to the fields of art, science and culture.
One of the main themes of the 65th Festival dei Popoli (Florence, 2–10 November 2024) was the launch of a three-year project aimed at rediscovering and promoting female filmmakers whose work has not received the recognition it deserves. The focus on women, together with the themes of rediscovery, archiving and education, fully reflects the mission and objectives of the Calliope Arts Foundation, which is committed to the restoration, documentation and dissemination of the achievements of women in the arts and sciences.
Title: Lessico del reale
Author: Vittorio Iervese, Daniele Dottorini
Publisher: Meltemi
Language: italiana
Art-house documentary – the so-called ‘cinema of the real’ – has for years been a field of eclectic and daring experimentation, yet it often remains confined to the festival circuit, without gaining access to cinema distribution. It is a vibrant form of cinema, capable of blending genres and styles, of engaging with reality, reworking it and, at times, aspiring to transform it.
In this essay, Vittorio Iervese and Daniele Dottorini set out to reconstruct its complexity, compiling a nuanced and ironic lexicon that reinterprets the clichés and recurring keywords found in the discourse of filmmakers, critics, programmers and producers.
This publication was produced with funding from the MiC – Directorate-General for Education, Research and Cultural Institutes, awarded to Festival dei Popoli – Italian Institute for Social Documentary Film ETS.
