22° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Doc 2004 Competition

L'enigma del sonno

The Enigma of Sleep

Country: Italy
Year: 2004
Duration: 60


A story told by a group of people whose lives have totally changed during sleep. A family who suffers from a rare insomnia that will lead them to death; a narcoleptic painter who lives half way between dream and reality; the night life of a sleepwalking boy; a life guard who stops breathing 600 hundred times each night; a narcoleptic ex boxer who falls asleep on the ring; a man without the R.E.M. phase. Their mutual intention is to discover an answer to their mysterious problems.

"A sick patient is always awake. We thought that nothing happened during sleep. On the contrary, sleep is an active status and this is what our film is about. Working on this project we have learned two things: sleep and dreams are very important for our lives; illnesses have different shapes in each person, and become unique. Making the documentary we have learned that it is not possible to tell about an illness without telling about a person." (E. Cerasuolo, S. Fergnachino)

Biography

film director

Enrico Cerasuolo

Enrico Cerasuolo (Venice, 1968) since 1992 is the CEO of production company Zenit Arti Audiovisive di Torino. Between 1988 and 1991 he attended many film and scriptwriting workshops. As scriptwriter he won the 1986 Rai Tre Award-Regione Piemonte, and was one of the finalists at Film-Maker in Milan in 1988 and at Cinemacorto in Bra in 1996 and 2000. He made several documentaries, educational videos, music videos and institutional and industrial videos.

FILMOGRAFIA

Memorie della resistenza (doc, 1992), Suoni dalla città (doc, 1992), Riflessi Veneziani (video, 1996-2000), Musica instrumentum coeli (doc, 1997), L'affidamento minorile (doc, 2001), Sunshine (video, 2001), Sunny Days (video, 2002), L'altro consumo (video, 2002), Perturbazione - Il senso della vita (video, 2002), Veneto: the Ideal Set (video, 2004).

TFF

prizes

DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION 2004

Special Award

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