Country: Italy
Year: 2000
Duration: 60'
The sisters Lia, 6, and Rita, 9, and their friend Brenda, who has lost all her front teeth, are the only little girls left in the Albergheria neighborhood and claim their right to be little. This area in the old center of Palermo is in the midst of urban renewal and is full of rubble and open work sites. Cetti, Mariuccia and Rosi, teenagers already, talk about the rivalry between neighborhoods, about the small gangs and about the habits of violence. These codes of behavior are acquired inside and outside the family - in the streets, in the homes, in the densely populated narrow alleys and in the wide-open and desolate spaces sacrificed to World War II bombardment. Gutted out houses do not give shelter and neither do doors barred with hundreds of heavy chains.
"At times having a television camera is like pointing a weapon, especially in those places that you cannot frame. Beyond the view finder, there is all the rest - everything that you see with the other eye, the one that has no safety net. You have to try to strike an equilibrium between two forces: the force of your weapon, the tele-camera, and the force of hostility, a force that, in spite of all, nourishes you and says you are doing something right" (Costanza Quatriglio).
Biography
film director
Costanza Quatriglio
(Palermo, Italy, 1973) made her debut in feature films with The Island, which was selected at Cannes’ Quinzaine des réalisateurs in 2003 and received several other awards. At the Venice Film Festival that same year, she presented Racconti per l’isola: a documentary about the making of The Island and working with non-professional actors. Among her recent projects, Ècosaimale? won an award at the Torino Film Festival in 2000. She presented Terramatta (2012) at Venice Days and won the Nastro d’argento for best documentary film. In 2013, her short Con il fiato sospeso was screened in the out of competition section of the Venice Film Festival ans the following Triangle (2014) as well. With the shocking documentary 87 ore (2015) she then told the tragic story of Francesco Mastrogiovanni. In 2018 she presente at Locarno Film Festival Sembra mio figlio, then awarded with a Ciak d’oro, and in 2021 she directed the tv movie La bambina che non voleva cantare, a biopic about Italian singer Nada. Since 2019 she is artistic director of the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia, Palermo section.
FILMOGRAFIA
Rewind (cm, video, 1995), Lettera a Monsieur Cinema (cm, video, 1995), Rubinetti raccordi (cm, video, 1996), L’albero (cm, 1997), Anna! (cm, 1998), Il giorno che ho ucciso il mio amico soldato (cm, 1999), Una sera (cm, 2000), Ècosaimale? (2000), L’insonnia di Devi (cm, 2001), L’isola (2003), Racconti per L’isola (doc., 2003), Il mondo addosso (doc., 2006), Il mio cuore umano (doc., 2009), Terramatta (doc., 2012), Con il fiato sospeso (mm, 2013), Triangle (doc., 2014), 87 ore (doc, 2015), Sembra mio figlio (2018), Palermo Sospesa (2020), La bambina che non voleva cantare (tv, 2021), Trafficante di virus (2021).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Costanza Qua-triglio.
Director of photography: Costanza Quatriglio, Giacobbe Gam-berini.
Editor: Stefano Pasetto, Costanza Quatri-glio.
Production company and Italian distribution: Rean Mazzone per Tea Nova, via De Spuchis 11, 90141 Palermo, Italia, tel. +39-091-6124415, fax +39-091-6091296, e-mail teanova@iol.it.
Director of photography: Costanza Quatriglio, Giacobbe Gam-berini.
Editor: Stefano Pasetto, Costanza Quatri-glio.
Production company and Italian distribution: Rean Mazzone per Tea Nova, via De Spuchis 11, 90141 Palermo, Italia, tel. +39-091-6124415, fax +39-091-6091296, e-mail teanova@iol.it.
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