Star Stuff

Venue: Cinema delle Valli. Address: Via Galileo Ferraris 2. End: 23:00 Three of the world’s most important and remote astronomical observatories are at the center of the documentary’s narrative, privileged windows onto the Universe, located in Chile, in the Canary Islands and in South Africa. The heart of the narrative is the sensitive contrast that arises between two apparently opposite worlds: the world of science, with astronomers and researchers who, through sophisticated telescopes, scrutinize the sky night after night, and the world of local communities, the lives and dreams of indigenous communities and the inhabitants who live in the small remote villages near these observatories, ordinary people with their stories to tell and an ancient and uninterrupted bond with the sky above their heads. In a narrative balance between sky and earth, Milad Tangshir’s documentary succeeds in connecting the universal with the intimate, the infinite with the circumscribed and the dream with reality, in a constant search for human essence. Through breathtaking landscapes, hypnotic cosmic images and intimate stories, the film conveys the message contained in the title itself: Star Stuff . The documentary draws on the t