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248, a film which is a pilot project of the format of BIOPORTRAIT. BIOPORTRAIT is the 'taxonomic' name given by the authors to their research on the possibility of transposing the biographical portrait in film, into a new multifaceted narrative genre. An instrument that aims to tell the extraordinary nature of reality by identifying the elements that make the life of each of us a unique and authentic story. Experimentation ; In the format of BIOPORTRAIT, which refers to the values and the historical evolution of the portrait, recombining the codes of cinema - both sonorous and silent - and of art - painting, photography and video art - in a dreamlike narration of images, sounds and texts in a combination of a film and an installation. 248 seconds is a biographical portrait of Massimo Montini, the first of a series of movies belonging to the BioPortrait genre. The tale of a mental apnea. The apnea, obsession and discipline of the protagonist, is here a metafor of an existence that tells the tale. A sudden dive, towards the pro-found. Underwater everything is clear, evident. The breathing, is an essential element a source of awareness. The mind now, experience time, the first breath relases it.

In the 1940s and 1950s and during the French colonization of Tunisia, a woman from an Italian Jewish family converted to Islam and married at the time in the right arm of activist Salah Ben Youssef. will later oppose the leader Habib Bourguiba. The woman ESTER (who will become HÉDIA) tells her story via an exciting journey, witness to several events and which ends in a conflict with her son Mohamed David Soninno who is in continuous search for his Jewish origins .

Dag Solstad is one of the most prominent and widely read authors in modern Norwegian literature. With his unusual and challenging novels and literary form, he has for years provided Norwegian readers with an insight into what has left its mark on modern Norway. In this documentary, we meet an unusually candid Solstad, who presents both his philosophy of life and his slanted view of today's Norway. He talks about his childhood, youth, later life and how he views being a human being in today's society. "Man without a Past" provides a good insight into Solstad's writing, life and original views.