MATIFF 01- MATERA ART INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

''Che piccola cosa, una vita! La mia, come tutte, è una goccia. Voglio si perda in un mare d'amore, perché è l'unica via, altrimenti è una goccia sprecata: Troppo piccola per essere felice da sola, e troppo grande per accontentarsi del nulla.'' ( "La goccia" , Anonymous ) ULYSSES on MARS There is a red thread that links Ulysses and his Odyssey to the exploration of space and Mars seen through a drop of water! The adventurous story of a mankind. An infinite poem of courage, ingenuity, curiosity, nostalgia, imagination and the environment, a desire to challenge one's limits and the limits of the universe. This urge towards an adventure and challenge, not surprisingly, often comes as a reaction to a historical moment of great social and economic depression. After years of living in the "gray dust", humankind is ought to go back on doing good by seeking if not the virtue itself then at least the knowledge. Therefore, a desire to go towards the unknown by exorcising a fear, just as Dante's Ulysses pushes beyond the familiar limits by overcoming the COLUMNS OF HERCULES. And thats the way that Cinema becomes a proven experience of a spaceship for a travel in order to discover unexplored territories. Whether it is the most distant and inviolate border of the cosmos or the deepest and most hidden place of the soul, it does not matter: there is no difference between looking at the stars or looking inside oneself . What is so different between crossing the asteroid belt and facing a love that sprouts or fades? MATIFF - Matera Art International Film Festival, intends to incorporate stories that speak about the originality of human kind in facing challenges and adversities of all kinds. To overcome them and affirm that the existence is the most extraordinary of all adventures. In all times and all places. From Ithaca to the immense Universe, from Matera to Mars. DARE MIGHTY THINGS BECAUSE WE ARE A DROP OF THE UNIVERSE