18° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Feature Film Competition 2000

I NOSTRI ANNI

OUR YEARS
by Daniele Gaglianone
Country: Italy
Year: 2000
Duration: 90'


Alberto and Natalino are two old men who were partisan fighters in Piedmont during the war. Silurino was another fighter, but he fell victim to the black brigades. Natalino still lives in the mountains, in an old, uninhabited village, but Alberto, a widower, spends the summer in a boardinghouse, where he makes friends with Umberto, an old man confined to a wheelchair. Slowly but surely, all the old memories return to the surface in all their dramatic intensity.

«For men like Alberto, not even two minutes can pass after certain episodes and time becomes a trap, a cruel game where the past doesn't pass and memory turns into obsession» (Daniele Gaglianone).

Biography

film director

Daniele Gaglianone

(Ancona, 1966) in 1991 began collaborating with the National Film Archives of the Italian Resistance. After the short La ferita (1991), which received a prize at Turin’s Festival Cinema Giovani, he debuted in feature films with I nostri anni (Our Years), selected for the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes. In 2004, with his film Nemmeno il destino (Changing Destiny), he won the Tiger Award in Rotterdam. With Rata neće biti (la guerra non ci sarà), in 2008 he won a Special Jury Prize at the Torino Film Festival and a David di Donatello for best documentary. In 2009, he made Pietro, his third fiction feature film, presented in competition in Locarno, and in 2011 Ruggine (Rust), presented at the Giornate degli Autori in Venice, as was La mia classe (My Class, 2013). In 2014, his documentary Qui, was presented at the Torino Film Festival,and in 2016, he made the short film Granma with the Nigerian filmmaker Alfie Nze, presented at Locarno. That same year, he made the short Joy, presented in Venice. The following year, he shot the TV documentary Sorelle d’Italia and presented in Turin Dove bisogna stare. In 2019, with Lina Fucà and Paolo Leonardo, he inaugurated the exhibit Solo da bambini at the Fondazione Merz in Turin. He also teaches and directs plays with the group Il BuioFuori.

FILMOGRAFIA

Nella solitudine del sangue (cm, 1990), Era meglio morire da piccoli (cm, 1992), L’orecchio ferito del piccolo comandante (cm, 1994), La carne sulle ossa (cm, 1996), I nostri anni (2000), Le domeniche del Signor Mantaut (doc., 2003), Nemmeno il destino (2004), Alle soglie della sera (doc., 2005), Rata neće biti (la guerra non ci sarà) (doc., 2008), Pietro (2009), Ruggine (2011), La mia classe (2013), Qui (doc., 2014), Granma (coregia Alfie Nze, mm, doc., 2017), Dove bisogna stare (doc., 2018), Sorelle d’Italia (tv, doc, 2018), Il tempo rimasto (doc, 2021).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Daniele Gaglianone.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Daniele Gaglianone, Giaime Alonge.
Director of photography: Gherardo Gossi.
Art director: Valentina Ferroni.
Costume designer: Marina Roberti.
Sound: Giuseppe Napoli.
Cast and characters: Virgilio Biei (Alberto), Piero Franzo (Natalino), Giuseppe Boccalatte (Umberto Passoni), Massimo Miride (Alberto giovane), Enrico Saletti (Natalino giovane), Luigi Salerno (Silurino), Diego Canteri (Umberto giovane).
Production company and Italian distribution: Gianluca Arcopinto per Pablo, via Luca della Robbia, 22, 00153 Roma, Italy, tel. +39-06-5745004, fax +39-06-5755242.

TFF

prizes

CINEMAVVENIRE AWARD 2000

Feature Film Competition - Best First Film

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