Lilithwork is an organization made up of an enthusiastic group of professionals who conceive and develop documentaries around Europe to talk about social, historical and political issues.
Lilithwork, an association originating in Italy, is opening branches in other countries to give value to connections among worldwide realities that share the same passions.
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POLITICS
Bonjour les enfants welcomes new generation of teen-agers who live in Israel. “Aurevoir les enfants” by Louis Malle inspired in me a sense of continuity despite historical events and the sadness of the Shoah. As a consequence of that Aurevoir became Bonjour!
Those guys have just received what in Israel is considered entrance to the adult world such as army call-up.
Bonjour les Enfants was born from my relationship with Israeli left-wingers. I needed to tell the truth about teen-agers who live in Israel who are extremely involved in politics and want to contribute to the future of their country. They are convinced the coutry can survive only by taking Palestine into consideration.
Andrée
— Shown at Omanut, Israel 1906 - 2006 October 2006 - January 2007 Royal Palace, Milan, Italy.
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MIGRATION
La clôture de Sangatte - Closing Sangatte
On December the 18th 2002, after an agreement between Mr Tony Blair and Mr Sarkozy, the Red Cross Centre Refugee Camp known as Sangatte was shut down. This film conveys through sound and images Lilithwork production’s own version of the closure of Sangatte.
The refugee centre of Sangatte, near Calais, was set up by the French Red Cross in 1999 and opened its doors to 75,000 people who fled war and conflict between 1999 and 2002.
— Rome Medfilmfestival 2004. United Nations Festival
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HISTORY - SHOAH
Destination Auschwitz is a documentary produced in partnership with the CDEC - Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea of Milan, Italy which is the most important European film library regarding the Shoah. Historians, film-makers and computer programmers have been working for four years on the project of Destination Auschwitz. The project itself has been awarded the Innovation Prize by the European Union and is now published by Proedi Editore. With the production of the present film, the project of Destination Auschwitz has been completed. In order to portray the Shoah Lilitwork has been using different sources. Sources taken from the Museum of Auschwitz Birkenau and from the Museum Yad Vashem of Jerusalem. Numerous photographs of the time show the reality and brutality of the deportation and stermination. Contemporary three-dimensional reconstructions enabled us to fully portray that crucial moment in history.
Scenes from the most representative movies and documentary films on the subject have been used by Lilithwork in order to present the reality of Shoah.
— Broadcasted on RAI EDUCATIONAL January, the 27th 2003
— Memoria, Exhibition at Palazzo della Ragione, Milano, 2005.
— Memoria, Exhibition at Palazzo della Ragione, Milano, 2004.
— Pitifest 2003, Jewish Cultural Festival, Pitigliano, Tuscany.
— Palazzo dei Principi, Correggio Conferenza di presentazione “Per non dimenticare”.
— Torino Film festival 2002.
— Enclosed with the national paper Rizzoli Corriere della Sera.
— Broadcasted on RAI EDUCATIONAL January, the 27th 2003.
— Homepage of Corriere dalla Sera January, the 27th 2003.
— Palazzo Reale, Milano – Exhibition Memoria, I sommersi e i salvati.
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SOCIETY
The keepers of the Usseglio's dams
25 days work shift at the top of the Alps without going back home. Snow and mountains all around them. Snow and dams to be checked all day long.
These are true stories by five dam keepers in Usseglio, Piedmont, Italy. These experiences give value to this land's memories and to its identity. -
MIGRATION
Sangatte reports about asylum seekers who flee from war and poverty, people who have been walking from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kurdistan, North Africa for as many as two or three years in order to reach England which is supposed to be the most open European Country for those seeking asylum.
Sangatte is situated close to Calais, in Northern France. This is the last place in Europe before the Channel. Asylum seekers try to jump illegally on the vans to cross the Channel towards England. Many people die doing this.
This film aims to convey what happens in Sangatte without filters. This 30 minutes mute film tries to depict what is going on the story avoiding to patronize or giving a moral of the story. This film tries to let reality to speak for itself.
— Official selection TorinoFilmFestival 2003, documentary category — Selected by Luciano Barisone at AlbaFilmFestival
— Genova 04 Città della Cultura Empowerment Cantiere Italia Museo d'arte contemporanea Villa Croce
— Shown at Lo spirito del Novecento - Orta S.Giulio 2003 -
HISTORY - SHOAH
I ragazzi ascoltano -
MEINA The First Nazi Massacre of the Jews in ItalyRebecca Ottolenghi Béhar was 13 when she witnessed and survived the first Nazi massacre of Jewish people in Ialy, on the Lake Maggiore. She left Turkey with her family and they went to Milan and to Lake Maggiore. Unfortunately after Mr. Badoglio announced armistice, the situation in Italy became even worse.
This film shows Rebecca Ottolenghi Béhar telling schoolgirs and schoolboys her story. She explains the stay at the Hotel owned by her family where a group of Jewish people hoped to find shelter. When the rest of the group was killed at the Lake Maggiore, she fled to Switzerland with her family.
Becky Ottolenghi Béhar passed away on the 14th of January 2009 and we are committed to spread her memory by this documentary as if she were with us to give an account of this forgotten massacre.
Students are invited to listen, learn, grow. The historian Mauro Begozzi, of the Istituto Storico della Resistenza in Novara is interviewed by the historian Andrea Bienati and by the journalist Laura De Feudis; in his interview he helps us recall of the deepest collective memories connected to the massacre of Meina.
— Shown at Palazzo della Ragione: exhibition "30 gennaio 1944. Convoglio RSHA. Milano-Auschwitz".
— Casa della Resistenza di Fondotoce, International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2005
— Prize 'Novara per la sua storia e il territorio 2004'. Foundation Banca Popolare Novara -
EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA - THEATRE
My attention was drawn by the sense of responsibility driving the dialogues in Sarah Kane's PHEDRA'S lOVE. I adapted this screenplay in order to give her work tribute. A work inspired by Sarah Kane’s Phaedra’s Love.
Di Fedra is a visual reflection around the Greek myth of Phaedra and an attempt to live its tragic emotions through the means of video-theatre. The film brings the myth to a contemporary audience. Shot in a Visconti castle in Northern Italy, the atmosphere is evocative and invites the audience to reflect on how we relate in a post-modern world. — Andrée
— CWT Creative Web Tv Festival 2001, Triennale di Milano. Selected by film critic Gianni Canova
