11° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Regional Competition 1993

NON È DETTO...

IT'S NOT GRANTED THAT…

Country: Italy
Year: 1992
Duration: 25'


A young woman paraplegic goes through the smaller experiences of her everyday life. She discovers that the disadvantages resulting from her disability are caused more by the society that surrounds her than by her own physical conditions. At the end she faces up to the causes that brought on her handicap and thus rediscovers her own independence.

Biography

film director

Giuseppe Forlano

Giuseppe Forlano (Turin, 1945) edited the script for the documentary, Sopravvivenza oggi, for Department of Schools and Education in 1986. It will be broadcast on Rai3 in October, 1987. In 1991-92 he made a series of videos documentaries on the theme of rehabilitation as well as the fiction video, Non è detto. presented at the last Turin Film Festival. He presently works as a cameraman at one of the communities of the Gruppo Abele.

Cast

& Credits

Director and screenplay: Giuseppe Forlano.
Music: Domenico Manella, Gabriele Barbera.
Editor: Alessandro Amaducci.
Cast: Maria Grazia Micone, Franco Gatto, Claudio Davi, Aziz Bouziay.
Production company: Giuseppe Forlano, c/o Genovese, via Santa Giulia 8 bis, 10124 Torino, tel. +39-011-888885.
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