18° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Italian Spotting 2000

SCENE DA UNA CUCINA

SCENES FROM A KITCHEN

Country: Italy
Year: 2000
Duration: 20'


Shots from inside and out, before and after the theatrical production of Migrare - Scene da una cucina, which was held in the cafeteria of the former colony of Vittorio Emanuele III at Ostia, the main gathering area of foreigners around Rome. The social center "Vittorio Occupato" and a cafeteria run by Caritas are located there, and both are the gathering ground of a large group of immigrants from outside the European Community. Many of these immigrants are participants in the show, along with professional actors, and they portray their stories, their hardships and the emotions of migrants in search of someplace to live.

"Behind these little stories there is always a larger story" (Italo Spinelli).

Biography

film director

Italo Spinelli

Italo Spinelli (Rome, 1951) was assistant director to Carlo Cecchi and Luca Ronconi from 1971 to 1980. For the Teatro di Roma, before the production of Migrare - Scene da una cucina he organized La Giornata di uno Scrutatore by Italo Calvino. He has written about and with authors (Mario Vargas Llosa, Amitav Gosh), economists (Amartya Sen) and directors (Michelangelo Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci). His first full-length movie, Roma Paris Barcelona was awarded the Premio De Sica. At present, he writes for the magazine "Lo Straniero", edited by Goffredo Fofi.

FILMOGRAFIA

Doppio movimento (1980), La città di Malte (cm, 1981), Festival internazionale dei poeti (1982), Il giovane Rilke (cm, 1984), Ripensando Lima (1987), Rilke a Venezia (1988), Roma Paris Barcelona (1990), Lo schiaffo (cm, episodio di Corsica, 1991), Il sacrificio (1992), India, un paese in trasformazione (1993), D for Delhi (cm, 1994), Un fiume di cinema - Sulle tracce di Michelangelo Antonioni (1995), Una famiglia, una dinastia: Benazir Bhutto (cm, 1996), Jqbhal (cm, 1996), Poolan Devi, la regione dei banditi (cm, 1996), Angkor Wat (cm, 1997), Danzando in Cambogia (1998), Bernardo Bertolucci Hyderabad (cm, 1999/2000), Invetriando i Capitani della Montagna (cm, 1999/2000), Ora siamo qua (cm, 1999/2000), Scene da una cucina (2000).

Cast

& Credits

Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura e fotografia: Italo Spinelli.
Scenografia e costumi: Elisabetta Di Pisa.
Editor: Silvia Di Domenico.
Music: Ali Karabulut, Rashmi V. Bhatt, Saleh Tavil.
Cast: Adnan Ahmad, Girle Baldonato, Roman Barabash, Fahad Bartoluzzi, Giuseppe Bonotti, Andrea Carnevale, Francesco Cordio, Marco Gioffredi, Nathalie Guett`, Abdelouamed Kharbouch, Stefano Mancini, Angela Mancione, Vilas Martini, Mohammed Nasseim, Raschid Ouatouat, Francesco Pennacchia, Liliana Ramovic.
Production company: Associazione culturale Mnemosyne, via Garibaldi 55, 00153 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-58330724; e-mail italospinelli@tiscalinet.it.
Co-production: Navert Film, Roma.
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