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The Challenge

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Original title: The Challenge
Year: 2016
Running time: 69 min.
Country: Italy
Director: Yuri Ancarani
Cast: Documentary, Self: Khaled Al-Kaja
Music: Lorenzo Senni, Francesco Fantini
Cinematography: Yuri Ancarani, Luca Nervegna, Jonathan Ricquebourg
Producer: Co-production Italy-France-Switzerland;
Atopic Films, La Bête, Ring Film
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis: Falconry has a history that stretches back over 40 centuries. In the West it was a prevailing passion of the medieval aristocracy, but its prestige continues undiminished in contemporary Arab culture. Three years of observing this form of hunting in the field have made it possible to capture the spirit of a tradition that today allows its practitioners to keep a close rapport with the desert, despite their predominantly urban lifestyle. Our guide to how they cross that threshold is a falconer taking his birds to compete in a tournament in Qatar. In the glaring light of an empty landscape, following flight lines and lures, the film recounts a strange kind of “desert weekend”, in which technological and anthropological microcosms hang in the air, like the falcon, drifting on the irreversible currents of images.

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The Challenge

2016

Yuri Ancarani

6.3

(72)