Yuri Ancarani’s ‘Il popolo delle donne’ premieres at Venice Film Festival

At the 2023 Venice Film Festival, Yuri Ancarani's documentary ‘Il popolo delle donne’ debuted in the Giornate degli Autori section. The film highlights psychoanalyst Marina Valcarenghi, who has dedicated over thirty years to working with sexual violence offenders. Ancarani first encountered Valcarenghi while creating ‘Atlantide’ for the 2021 festival. The documentary is centered around a one-hour lecture by Valcarenghi, recorded at the Chiostro della Statale di Milano, which emphasizes her expressions and reflects the viewpoints of her students. Valcarenghi contends that rising violence against women is linked to men’s diminishing control over their historical dominance, advocating for emotional education for men and self-defense strategies for women. True equality necessitates that men give up their supremacy while women move beyond victimhood.