19° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
DOC 2001 Competition
VALENTINA È PARTITA
by Michael Beltrami, Ruben Rossello
Country: Italy, Switzerland
Year: 2001
Duration: 85'
The sorrows of a teenager, the problems and conflicts tied in with the latest waves of immigration, the pride of a mother reduced to living in a run-down, unhealthy house in a little town in Brescia province. Thirteen-year-old Valentina reaches the point where she can't stand all this any longer and so, one Sunday, decides to run away to her grandparents, leaving her mother and her Moroccan stepfather to face the by-then immanent eviction.
"Valentina's is an everyday life story that needs telling and that brings out situations and conflicts that are very common nowadays. It is an agonizing and contradictory story" (Michael Beltrami, Ruben Rossello).
Biography
film director
Michael Beltrami
Michael Beltrami (Cologne, 1962) graduated in 1989 from the UCLA school of cinema. He then took courses at the same university in cinematographic writing. Since 1993 he has made various documentaries for Swiss television. Valentina è partita received a special mention from the jury in the DOC 2001 Competition at last year's Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Bella? (1981/1984), City (cm, 1985), Our Hollywood Education (1991), Johanna amp; Patience Go to Hollywood (cm, 1992), Figli di Tell: l'Europa si avvicina (1993, co-regia Ruben Rossello), Via del centenario del cinema (1995, co-regia Ruben Rossello), Storie di ordinaria musica (1995), 7 giorni in ospedale (1996, co-regia Ruben Rossello), Missing in Bosnia e The Story of Avdo Palia (1997), Danza la terra (1997), Il paese che c'È (1997/1998), Invito a nozze - Appunti per un film sulla coppia (1998), Muri e fantasmi (1999), Night and Day Fragments of American Life (1999), Valentina è partita (2001, co-regia Ruben Rossello), Project Onoma (cm, 2001/2002), Triste e arrabbiato - La storia di Marian (2002).
Ruben Rossello
Ruben Rossello (Lugano, 1963) graduated Geneva University law school. He then studied modern literature at Milan State University. He has worked for Swiss Television as a journalist since 1988 and as a specialist in documentaries since 1998.
FILMOGRAFIA
Ruben Rossello: Il mistero di Papa Giovanni (1999).
Cast
& Credits
b>Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Michael Beltrami, Ruben Rossello.
Director of photography: Michael Beltrami, Nicola Viglezio, Luca Galli, Alberto Giordano.
Editor: Stefano Schütz.
Sound: Ares Rosa, Claudio Ruberti.
Cast: Enza Samir D'Apollo, El Miktar Samir.
Production company and Italian distribution: Federico Jolli per TSI, Televisione Svizzera di Lingua Italiana, Casella postale, 6903 Lugano, Switzerland, tel. +41-91-8035396, fax +41-91-8035355, e-mail federico.jolli@rtsi.ch.
Director of photography: Michael Beltrami, Nicola Viglezio, Luca Galli, Alberto Giordano.
Editor: Stefano Schütz.
Sound: Ares Rosa, Claudio Ruberti.
Cast: Enza Samir D'Apollo, El Miktar Samir.
Production company and Italian distribution: Federico Jolli per TSI, Televisione Svizzera di Lingua Italiana, Casella postale, 6903 Lugano, Switzerland, tel. +41-91-8035396, fax +41-91-8035355, e-mail federico.jolli@rtsi.ch.
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