Invelle

It is 1918 and Zelinda is a girl living in the countryside whose mother is in heaven and father at war. She has to put her childhood down and take up instead the burden of the house, her siblings, the cattle shed and livestock. One day Zelinda finds she has a mother and father again. At the village fair the little girl clings to her papa and opens her eyes wide to make room for all the things that have appeared in front of her. Be they real or imagined, Zelinda has seen those things now and has got an idea of how the world turns. It turns so fast that her story becomes someone else’s. In 1943 Assunta is a girl in the countryside who balances on one leg, with her head in the clouds and a foot in the war (another one!). But as soon as she can Assunta sews a colored dress for herself, takes a skip and all of a sudden the war has become a joke, or at least it’s over. The war (perhaps!) is over, and with it a whole world disappears: that skip was bigger than it seemed. In 1978 Icaro is a little boy in the countryside whose life turns around nothing. He has to do and is going to do something that was dreamed-of many years earlier and was not possible for his mother and his grandmother. And for those who came before them. And before that. And even before that.

In the part of the world where I was born and raised there is nothing important to see and remember, nothing that could be considered worthy of ending up in a book. A sort of “Nowhere,” a non-place from which history has demanded and taken everything that it wanted and could. In exchange for that history we have gotten stories, the kind that are either passed on orally or are lost.

PRODUCTION 1: Salvatore Pecoraro, Daniele di Gennaro - Minimum Fax Media
Via Giuseppe Pisanelli, 2
00196 – Roma, Italia
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PRODUCTION 2: Amel Soudani, Michela Pini, Olga Lamontanara, Rhea Plangg - Amka Films Productions
Via Sole, 2
6942 - Savosa, Switzerland
tel. +41 919674076
amka@amka.ch

OTHER COPRODUCTIONS: RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera

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00198 - Roma, Italia
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