Country: Italy
Year: 2002
Duration: 57'
Sicilian emigrants in Tunisia and Tunisian emigrants in Sicily, exchanges and flows that have generated interesting stories to tell. Stories of integration and hate between the races that are part of our one universe. Where the border between the Islamic world and the Western one is both evanescent and insurmountable. Stories told "from below", that perfectly illustrate the concept of how globalization is both obsolete and unreachable. The daily life of a precarious life on the borderline.
"We seem to have forgotten about Italian emigration to Tunisia, that began at the end of the 19th century and that continued with alternating intensity until 1960. As often happened in the case of Sicilian fishermen, this emigration resulted in double nuclear families ñ people with one family in Sicily and another one in Tunisia" (S. Savona).
Biography
film director
Stefano Savona
Stefano Savona (Palermo, Italy, 1969 has made numerous video installations, including La città infinita (2003) and D-Day (2005), and various documentaries, such as Piombo fuso (2009) that won the special jury prize at Cinéastes du présent at Locarno and the Grand prix du documentaire at Annecy. In 2010, he presented Spezzacatene at the Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Stefano Savona:
Storia di Palermo dalle origini all’età romana (mm, doc., 2000), Alfabe, abbecedario curdo (cm, doc., 2001), Un confine di specchi (doc., 2002), Primavera in Kurdistan (doc., 2006), Sulla stessa barca (cm, doc., 2007), Il tuffo della rondine (mm, doc., 2008), Piombo fuso (doc., 2009), Spezzacatene (doc., 2010).
Stefano Savona, Alessia Porto, Ester Sparatore:
Palazzo delle aquile (doc., 2011).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, fotografia: Stefano Savona.
Soggetto, consulenza scientifica: Franco La Cecla.
Editor: Marzia Mete.
Produzione, distribuzione, vendita all'estero: Alessandro Arangio Ruiz per Tipota Movie Company, lungotevere Flaminio 66, 00196 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-3610344, fax +39-06-3612676, e-mail info@tipota.it; Maat Produzioni.
Soggetto, consulenza scientifica: Franco La Cecla.
Editor: Marzia Mete.
Produzione, distribuzione, vendita all'estero: Alessandro Arangio Ruiz per Tipota Movie Company, lungotevere Flaminio 66, 00196 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-3610344, fax +39-06-3612676, e-mail info@tipota.it; Maat Produzioni.
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