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humour aims here at opening up an alternative perspective on the conflict be- tween Muslims and Jews, who in this film consume the same entertainment on television (fig. 3). STATE VIOLENCE A closer look at violence perpetrated by state institutions characterises a wide range of works shows at Venice, such as Sulla mia pelle (On my Skin, Alessio Cremonini, IT 2018) or La noche de 12 años (A Twelve Years’ Night, Álvaro Brechner, ES/AR/UY/FR 2018). The former recounts the real case of Stefano Cuc- chi, who died a week after his arrest in 2009. The young man, who was involved in the use and sale of drugs, had been brutally beaten by the Italian police when he was arrested. Nobody officially noticed the prisoner’s serious condition until he was found dead. The drama reintroduces the case as representative of abusive state violence and contextualises it in a social situation where it is barely possible to maintain trust in institutions and the state. La noche de 12 años reconstructs the imprisonment of three Tupamaro fighters in Uruguay in 1973. During the military dictatorship, the prisoners were isolated, tortured and heavily mistreated for 12 years. The film follows the profound and traumatic transformations of the protagonists, who are dehumanised by this long-lasting, Fig. 3: Film still Tel Aviv on Fire (Sameh Zoabi, LU/FR/BE 2018), https://www.labiennale.org/it/ cinema/2018/selezione-ufficiale/orizzonti/tel-aviv-fire [accessed 30.12.2018]. 148 | Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati www.jrfm.eu 2019, 5/1