Italy
40'52'', 2024
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Marco la Gala
On the day of the village festival, a man tries to climb the tree hoisted in the centre of the square. He does not succeed. He makes a second attempt. He fails, climbs down and gives up. The people in the square murmur. The new Majo climber must be found. Two young men vie for the role.
Marco La Gala was born in 1983 in Naples. At 23 he moved to France and studied cinema at the University of Paris VIII. In 2013 he made his first documentary film In the Land of Fires, where a small social cooperative opposes the illegal disposal of waste and the abandonment of agricultural land in the province of Naples, rediscovering the local peasant culture and popular traditions.