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- Nunca Máis is an account - through images and sensations - of the accident involving the Prestige, the petrol tanker which sank near the coasts of Galicia on the 13th of November 2002, with the leakage of 125 tonnes per day of heavy oil. A catastrophe which has irretrievably jeopardized both the Galician economy (which depends upon fishing) and the entire ecosystem. A "black tide" which has invaded over 600km of the coasts and which continues to make useless any attempts to cleanse the area: up until the year 2006 there will be a continuous leakage of huge quantities of heavy oil, from the wreckage of the Prestige, with a rhythm of roughly a litre and a half per second. The images follow the black tide and the work of the volunteers, across a montage which tends to stress the absurdity and vastness of that which has appropriately been described as "the sea Chernobyl", through the alternation of surreal moments and interviews of the locals and of environmental experts (longer version). The images and the montage come about and develop together with the soundtrack, which was specifically composed by the florentine musicians Ether - winners of the 2002 Electro Wave of the Arezzo Wave Festival - with the collaboration of Alberto Favilli.
- "She stands on the horizon. I move two steps nearer; she moves away 10 steps. No matter how far I walk I will never reach her, so what is the utopia for? It's useful for this: to keep walking" (E. Galeano) Firenze Città Aperta deals with the days of the European Social Forum (which took place in Florence from the 10th to the 14th of November 2002) and was distributed in 60,000 copies enclosed with the newspapers L'Unità, Il Manifesto, and with the weekly Carta. Produced by Stefano Stefani for l'Atelier, the film relates the many-sided faces of the movement which came together in Florence, beginning with the eve of the Forum's events, with the shops closed and the people arguing on the streets of the center in an atmosphere of surreal tension as evidenced (and created) by the newspaper headlines. Then, in contrast, the days of the Social Forum, from the march at the American Camp Darby military base, to the seminars, to the colors and sounds of the Fortezza da Basso up until the huge and peaceful march against the war (with a million participants), interspersed by the music of the brass bands which had come from all over Europe to meet in Florence.