Country: Italy
Year: 2000
Duration: 48'
This is a journey from Piedmont to Guatemala made in order to restitch the threads of a life, the story of a "discomforting" priest. In the 1970s Don Piero Nota was the pastor in a parish in Mirafiori South, a working-class neighborhood in Turin where there was a struggle for places to live. Subsequently, the consistency of his character brought him among the shanties of Limon, an area on the outskirts of Guatemala City, where he has chosen to share with other poor people the tragedies and pains of an entire people.
"There are many ways to tell a story, above all one like this: the classical interview, the report, the traditional documentary, fiction, and docu-drama. As the occasion arose, I chose the narrative means that seemed to me to be the most apt for communicating the reality of things and the impact of the emotions" (Claudio Paletto).
Biography
film director
Claudio Paletto
(Turin, 1954) lives and works in his hometown. Since the 1980s, he has created around eighty works, including short films, documentaries, urban installations, performances, art exhibitions, and museum displays. Many of his films have been featured at international festivals — including the Torino Film Festival, Rotterdam, Bellaria, Filmmaker in Milan, Montbéliard, Lecce, and Casablanca — as well as in various showcases (Berlin, Madrid, Paris, Banja Luka, Genoa, Eindhoven, Tunis, New York) and markets (Clermont-Ferrand, Cannes). Several of his works have received awards (in 1985 and 1993 in the Spazio Aperto section of the Festival Cinema Giovani, in 1990 in Immagini di realtà at Filmmaker, and in 1995 at the European Script Fund in London) and have been broadcast on television (Rai 3 and La7 in Italy, Canal+ in France, Munich TV in Germany). From 2001 to 2013, he curated the independent film series Strane Visioni at the Amantes Cultural Club.
FILMOGRAFIA
Rock contro il nucleare (coll., doc,1983), Ripresi (coregia Mimmo Calopresti, cm, 1987), Bordi taglienti (mm.,1989), Alla fine del millennio (doc,1991) Massimo rispetto (doc,1993), Filo rosso (doc,1996), Zona 18, Limon – Guatemala (doc, 2000), Gocce di mercurio (cm, 2003), Bambini d’Italia (cm, 2004), Walls and Borders (coll., 2009), Piccola italiana (doc, 2010), Neighbours (coregia Maddalena Merlino, doc, 2014) Acqua passata (cm, 2019), Lo spirito continua (cm, 2019), Imperfetto presente, voci dal primo lockdown (coregia Maddalena Merlino, doc, 2020), Souvenir de Paris (cm, 2025).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Claudio Paletto.
Plot: Gianni Sartorio.
Director of photography: Pierfranco Milanese, Vincenzo Pasquali.
Editor: Pierfranco Milanese.
Music: Willy DeVille, Molotov, Tamia e Pierre Favre, Macaco, Lalli e Miguel Angel Acosta.
Production company: Gianni Sartorio per International Help, strada della Maddalena 19, 10024 Revigliasco (Torino), Italia, tel. +39-011-8131258, e-mail .
Italian distribution: Claudio Paletto, via Plana 11, 10123 Torino, tel. +39-011-889091, e-mail palecla@tin.it.
Plot: Gianni Sartorio.
Director of photography: Pierfranco Milanese, Vincenzo Pasquali.
Editor: Pierfranco Milanese.
Music: Willy DeVille, Molotov, Tamia e Pierre Favre, Macaco, Lalli e Miguel Angel Acosta.
Production company: Gianni Sartorio per International Help, strada della Maddalena 19, 10024 Revigliasco (Torino), Italia, tel. +39-011-8131258, e-mail .
Italian distribution: Claudio Paletto, via Plana 11, 10123 Torino, tel. +39-011-889091, e-mail palecla@tin.it.