Country: Italy, UK
Year: 2000
Duration: 56'
Don Cesare Lodeserto is a strong, magnetic priest who is at the same time available, ironic and shrewd. He directs the Regina Pacis center in San Foca, Apulia. Along with him we can re-experience the drama of the Kosovar refugees as well as the Albanian, Rom, and Kurdish illegal immigrants. As we follow Don Cesare in his daily life, his personality - as director of the center, as priest, and as man - emerges in all its complexity. The characters and stories of the other protagonists are outlined through him. Just as the war in Kosovo finishes, the first Kurds reach Regina Pacis. There are more arrivals and departures - the endless story of peoples condemned to flee.
"Don Cesare, Florian, Marco, Renata and all the other people I met at the Regina Pacis center gave me this big gift of allowing me to be part of their lives. The film is my 'present in return', it is the proof of how our stories inter-mixed" (Franca Cereghini).
Biography
film director
Franca Cereghini
Franca Cereghini (Lecco, 1973) graduated from the University of Trent in visual anthropology. She studied ethnographic film in Paris with Anne Comolli and Jean Rouch. She then earned a masters degree in documentary direction at the Royal College of Art in London. Her Dreaming of Nightmares won the documentary award in the 1997 Excelsior awards in Rome and has been screened at various European festivals. She currently is living in London, where she has shot several documentary films for English television.
FILMOGRAFIA
Dreaming of Nightmares (cm, doc., 1996), Daughter of the Buddha (1997), Marc Quinn (cm, 1997), Barefoot Miracle (cm, 2000), Don Cesare - Prete di frontiera (2000).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura e fotografia: Franca Cereghini.
Editor: Anthony West.
Produzione, distribuzione e vendita all'estero: Stefano Tealdi per Stefilm, via Lombroso 26, 10125 Torino, Italia, tel. +39-011-6680017, fax +39-011-6680003, e-mail info@stefilm.it.
Co-production: Mosaic Films; Telepiù.
Editor: Anthony West.
Produzione, distribuzione e vendita all'estero: Stefano Tealdi per Stefilm, via Lombroso 26, 10125 Torino, Italia, tel. +39-011-6680017, fax +39-011-6680003, e-mail info@stefilm.it.
Co-production: Mosaic Films; Telepiù.