“When I close my eyes and search for my childhood memories I see fog - dense but sweet fog.” Director, Valentina Pedicini, sets off on an investigation of her childhood town, Brindisi in Apulia – a place that gained notoriety in the 90s from cigarette smuggling. Today the Italian coastal city is a trafficking hub for weapons and drugs. The mafia controls the operations and unemployment is steadily rising.
Four people, four generations in one place. MY MARLBORO CITY is a poetic and personal film that lifts the fog of the past and lets the people speak of their city. Katrin John

“When I first read Adorno, it was like swallowing a stick of dynamite,” says Travis English, an Art Historian from USA. Travis is one of the 200 members of the Facebook group “Adorno changed my life,” where people across the world share their thoughts on the late German philosopher. Facebook acts as the springboard that launches this film into the digital world. Skype interviews and material filmed by the protagonists are pieced together by the director into a comprehensive piece of work. An extraordinary documentary experiment about people’s self-expression and about our hyper-networked world where Facebook members debate books over the internet. Katrin John