Living with the Bears
DIRECTOR Federico Betta
MOVIE TYPING Documentary
Italia Green Film Festival
Living with the Bears
★★★★★
Green Short Film TIME | 1h
“Living with the Bears” is a journey through the history of the relationship between men and bears in Trentino, the northernmost region in Italy. Different characters create a puzzle of visions that crosses prehistory, history, the struggle for salvation, the great repopulation project and the present.
The documentary leaves us with many questions, without ignoring the reality: the coexistence of bears and humans creates conflicts that cannot be eliminated and requires a strong commitment from everyone. A shared effort to ensure the permanence of large carnivores on our territory in the long term.
Federico Betta
Born in Trento in 1974, he graduated in philosophy in Padua. He studied documentary design at Zelig Film in Bolzano and film screenwriting with Umberto Contarello, Vincenzo Cerami, Jean Claude Carrière and Neil Landau at UCLA. He is a graduate of Carlo Lucarelli’s Bottega Finzioni school. He has written over 200 articles on cinema, theatre and music for the online newspaper altroquotidiano.it. Since 2020 he has been teaching History of Cinema and Video at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.
He directs and produces social and cultural videos for organisations, companies, schools, public and private institutions. His documentaries, video surveys and short films have won national and international awards.
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