"Stonebreakers" World Premiere: New doc on fights over monuments opens at Festival dei Popoli in Florence. Stonebreakers, the latest Awen Films feature documentary, will have its first public showing this Saturday, Nov. 12, at Festival dei Popoli in Florence, Italy. Please enjoy the official trailer here.

We're delighted to mark this occasion at Festival dei Popoli, the oldest film festival in Europe dedicated entirely to documentaries and a consistent supporter of films on urgent topics from all around the world. Following the premiere in Florence, Stonebreakers will be shown in additional screenings at the University of Bergamo (Nov. 14), and in Rome at Cinema Troisi (Nov. 21) and at The British School at Rome (Nov. 22). 

STONEBREAKERS (World Premiere)
Followed by a Q&A with director Valerio Ciriaci and producer Isaak Liptzin
Saturday, November 12 / 5pm
Spazio Alfieri, Florence

Tickets & Info: www.festivaldeipopoli.org/programma/stonebreakers/  

Stonebreakers chronicles the conflicts around monuments that arose in the United States during the George Floyd protests and the 2020 presidential election. As statues of Columbus, Confederates and Founding Fathers fall from their pedestals, the nation’s triumphalist myths are called into question. By exploring the shifting landscapes of American monumentality, the film interrogates the link between history and political action in a nation that must confront its past now more urgently than ever.

Learn more about the film at https://www.awenfilms.net/stonebreakers.