22° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Doc 2004 Out of competition

Di madre in figlia

FROM MOTHER TO DAUGHTER

Country: Italy

Year: 2004

Duration: 48

Interviews with different women who answer two questions: «What do you have in common with your mother? What does your mother have in common with you?» Each one of us has a mother, ha a uterine origin, and any woman can answer this question. Dealing with such deep, ancient, biologically original of this blood bond, the wonderful complicity without superstructure, the weight of maternal beauty, the impossibility to relate of a fragile mother, the misunderstandings, the fights, the resemblance and divergence of the most secret of all relationships. Different experiences on an ever-existing concept, handed down from mother to daughter.

"I have asked myself what is the meaning of having a mother, of coming from her belly, of growing near her, of becoming a woman in her shadow and model. This is all very natural, simple, clear, but sometimes it can be difficult, strong and cathartic." (F. Sargentini).

FILM DIRECTOR

Biography

film director

Fabiana Sargentini

Fabiana Sargentini (Rome, 1969) graduated in film history and criticism and then worked as a 1st and 2nd assistant director for both TV commercials and cinema. In 1998 she presented her Super8 short film Se perdo te at Nanni Moretti’s Sacher Festival. Since then she made other shorts and several music and art documentaries for satellite TV channels. The doc Sono incinta, which had its première at the 2003 Torino Film Festival, won the Bellaria Film Festival in 2004 and was broadcasted on DOC3 (RaiTre), the Italian public TV network. Di madre in figlia (presented at the Torino Film Festival in 2004 and at the Festival dei Popoli in the same year) won the Sguardi Altrove Festival for women’s cinema in Milan and, again, the Bellaria Film Festival in 2005.

FILMOGRAFIA

Mani (cm, 1994), Lo sgarro (cm, 1996), Viso (cm, 1997), Se perdo te (cm, 1998), Il matrimonio può attendere (cm, 1999), Il cerchio che si chiude (cm, 2000), Ho perso il treno (cm, 2001), Sitar-Guitar (cm, doc., 2002), Tutto su mio padre Fabio Sargentini (mm, doc., 2003), Sono incinta (mm, doc., 2003), Di madre in figlia (mm, doc., 2004), Ciro e Priscilla (mm, doc., 2005).