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Wednesday 15 March 2017 ore 21:00 - 22:30

Cinema at MAXXI - EXTRA | ALICE FAMILY.LA PRINCIPESSA E L’AQUILA by Otto Bell

MAXXI Auditorium – Tickets €5
Tickets may be purchased from the museum ticket office of from www.vivaticket.it
The ticket give holders the right to reduced price admittance to MAXXI (€8) for a week from issue

A film by Otto Bell,
United Kingdom / Mongolia / USA 2016, 87’, documentary

The true story of Aisholpan, a thirteen-year-old Mongol with a dream of becoming the first female eagle hunter who competes in the annual Golden Eagle Festival. This young Muslim nomad wants to prove that “a girl can do everything a boy can, as long as she is determined.” The story is set in the Altai mountains in the north of Mongolia, the most remote part of the country, an area in which women have always been considered to fragile to hunt with eagles. Presented at the Rome Film Festival in 2016 and a BAFTA candidate for Best Documentary.


The schedules for this edition:
EXTRA major previews
EXHIBIT exhibitions and film
MAXXI DOC new documentary talents
SHORTSLEAGUE the best Italian short films
ALICE FAMILY animation and more

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A co-production Fondazione Cinema per Roma and MAXXI.