What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?

What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?

21st TDF: Greek Premiere

During the summer of 2017, a string of brutal killings of African-Americans in the southern States left the country in shock, reviving dark times. A meditation on racial discrimination, once again on the rise in the Trump era. A disquieting documentary made by one of the most recognizable voices of New New Independent cinema about the ones destined to be marginalized, victims of unprovoked sweeping violence from the cradle; citizens of a lesser God in their own country.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Roberto Minervini
Cinematography: Diego Romero Juarez-Llanos
Editing: Marie-Hélène Dozo
Sound: Bernat Fortiana Chico, Ingrid Simon, Thomas Gauder
Production: Okta Film, Pulpa Film
Producers: Paolo Benzi, Denise Ping Lee, Roberto Minervini
Co-production: Rai Cinema, Shellac Sud
Format: DCP
Color: B&W
Production Country: Italy, USA, France
Production Year: 2018
Duration: 123΄
Contact: The Match Factory, info@matchfactory.de
Awards/Distinctions: Fair Play Cinema Award, Premio Vivere da Sportivi Award, Soundtrack Stars Award (Special Mention) UNICEF Award – Venice Film Festival 2018, Standard Readers' Jury Prize – Viennale 2018, Grierson Award – London Film Festival 2018, Best Actress Award, Best Director Award, Best Editor Award – Mar del Plata Film Festival 2018

Roberto Minervini

Roberto Minervini is an Italian-born film director, living and working in the United States. He is widely considered one of the world’s most prominent auteurs of narrative documentaries, which combine dramatized and observational elements. After completing a Master of Arts in Media Studies at the New School in New York City in 2004, Roberto taught Documentary Filmmaking at the university level in Asia. In 2007, he moved to Texas, where he directed three feature films, The Passage, Low Tide and Stop the Pounding Heart, a Texas Trilogy focused on rural communities in the American South. He then went on to direct two feature films set in Louisiana, The Other Side and What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?, shifting to the political realm of American society and touching on social injustice. More recently he has begun to produce the work of other visionary filmmakers through his production company Pulpa Film, including Payal Kapadia’s first fiction film All We Imagine as Light and Lisandro Alonso’s Eureka. Roberto’s latest film, The Damned, is his first fiction film.

Filmography

2005 Voodoo Doll (short)
2005 Notes (short)
2005 Come to Daddy (short)
2006 The Fireflies (short)
2011 The Passage (doc)
2012 Low Tide (doc)
2013 Stop the Pounding Heart (doc)
2015 The Other Side (doc)
2018 What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? (doc)
2024 The Damned