The documentary "The Man Who Stole Banksy" comes to theaters.

Coming to theaters for Dec. 11 and 12 only is the film "The Man Who Stole Banksy," directed by Marco Proserpio and narrated by Iggy Pop.

Following is the synopsis: "It’s 2007. Banksy and his team break into the occupied territories and sign houses and boundary walls in their own way. The Palestinians, however, do not like it. The mural of the Israeli soldier asking the donkey for papers sends them into a rage: pass for breaking into the territories and acting without even introducing themselves to the community, but to be painted as donkeys in front of the rest of the world is just too much. Avenging the affront with an eye on the budget is taken care of by a local entrepreneur,Maikel Canawati, and especially Walid, a local gymnastic cab driver. With a water hose and the help of the community, Walid decides to cut down the wall of discord. Stated goal: sell it back to the highest bidder."

This is where Marco Proserpio’s ’The Man Who Stole Banksy’ narrated by Iggy Pop, which is coming to theaters only Dec. 11 and 12 as part of the Great Art at the Movies project, kicks off. The film tells the story of the Palestinian gaze on a Western-based street art and the messages Street Art conveys on the wall separating Israel from the West Bank. But it is also the story of the birth of a parallel market, as illegal as it is spectacular, of Street Art works taken from the street without the artists’ consent. Seven years have passed since then, and the auction for that piece of wall has not yet ended: for over a hundred thousand dollars a ton of wall art by one of the most famous artists was transferred to Scandinavia and is now planning to fly overseas. Starting from some concrete cases of works that ended up on the market without the knowledge of their authors, ’The Man Who Stole Banksy’ tackles topical issues related to the appearance of speculation in the Street Art market, copyright, the confrontation between different cultures in a post-colonial perspective, and the recovery of works perceived as real technological challenges even by restorers specialized in detaching Renaissance frescoes.

The event film alternates between footage taken on the street in different countries and interviews with experts-journalists, university professors, gallery owners, lawyers-and key figures in the parallel Street Art market. It is an extraordinary testimony that gives a voice, for the first time, to Walid, leaving him the opportunity to explain his choice to saw off, in order to sell them, the walls offered by Banksy to the Palestinian people, leaving it up to the audience to decide who are the good and bad guys in this story, because, as is often the case, it is only a matter of points of view here."

The documentary features original music by Federico Dragogna, Victor Kwality and Matteo Pansana, is produced by Marco Proserpio in collaboration with Rai Cinema and will arrive in theaters distributed by Nexo Digital. The soundtrack is distributed by C.A.M. Creazioni Artistiche Musicali S.r.l. a Sugar Group Company.

The film is an exclusive original project of Nexo Digital. For the 2018 season, it is distributed in collaboration with media partners Radio Capital, Sky Arte and MYmovies.it. To find out in which theaters the film will be shown, you can visit Nexo Digital’s website, which you can find here.

The documentary "The Man Who Stole Banksy" comes to theaters.

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