original title:
Bestiari, erbari, lapidari
directed by:
production:
Montmorency Film, Bocalupo Films, Lomotion, Rai Cinema, supported by Ministero della Cultura
country:
Italy / France / Switzerland
year:
2022
format:
colour
status:
Shooting (08/06/2022)
«Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries» is an ‘encyclopaedic’ documentary, whose non-human protagonists tell about us humans.
The film is divided into three volumes of about 40 minutes, each dealing with a single subject: animals, plants, stones. In this tripartite vision, each of its segment is a tribute to a specific genre of documentary filmmaking.
Through the three volumes, a single dramaturgical body emerges, that stages a process of admission of responsibility, a process of maintenance and protection, and finally a process of rediscovery of a common and fundamental value: care.