Country: Italy
Year: 2004
Duration: 15
Bing arrives illegally in Italy from China. Her new
brother is waiting for her.
"This film is the final chapter of a trilogy about the existential
condition imposed by clandestine life, which began with Il Giorno del
Santo (2002) and Maria Jesus (2003). Here, too, during the filming, we
had an intense feeling of being on the same wave-length, which ended in
a short circuit between explicit fiction and intimate reality. This gap
left only the spaces between the faces, the bodies and the few words
within a story that was tilted toward an impending elsewhere. Mio
Fratello Yang is a result of a desire to answer questions, but the more
we researched the problem, the more evident it became that there is only
one answer: everything was evasive, unreachable, rarefied. And yet it
was all there, in those revealed lives." (G. De Serio, M. De Serio)
Biography
film director
Gianluca De Serio
Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio (Torino, Italy, 1978) have worked together since 1999, making shorts and documentaries, including Il giorno del santo, Maria Jesus, Mio fratello Yang, Zakaria, Ensi e Shade, Rew e Shade and L’esame di Xhodi. The films have been presented at many international festivals and received several awards, including three Silver Ribbons, the International prize for best film at Oberhausen and Edinburgh and nominations for two David di Donatellos and for the European Academy Award. Since 2007, they have been working as artists at the Guido Costa Projects gallery. Their film Bakroman won the prize for best documentary at the 2010 Torino Film Festival. Sette opera di Misericordia, their first feature fiction film, previewed at Locarno.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Poche cose (cm, 2001), Il giorno del santo (cm, 2002), Maria Jesus (cm, 2003), Mio fratello Yang (cm, 2004), Zakaria (cm, 2005), Neverending Maria Jesus (cm, 2006), Ensi e Shade (cm, 2006), Rew e Shade (cm, 2006), Raige e Shade (cm, 2006), Tanatologia, 14 maggio 1958 (cm, doc., 2007), L’esame di Xhodi (doc., 2007), Bakroman (doc., 2010), Dialoghi del Lys (mm, 2010), Sette opere di misericordia (2011).
Massimiliano De Serio
Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio (Torino, Italy, 1978) have worked together since 1999, making shorts and documentaries, including Il giorno del santo, Maria Jesus, Mio fratello Yang, Zakaria, Ensi e Shade, Rew e Shade and L’esame di Xhodi. The films have been presented at many international festivals and received several awards, including three Silver Ribbons, the International prize for best film at Oberhausen and Edinburgh and nominations for two David di Donatellos and for the European Academy Award. Since 2007, they have been working as artists at the Guido Costa Projects gallery. Their film Bakroman won the prize for best documentary at the 2010 Torino Film Festival. Sette opera di Misericordia, their first feature fiction film, previewed at Locarno.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Poche cose (cm, 2001), Il giorno del santo (cm, 2002), Maria Jesus (cm, 2003), Mio fratello Yang (cm, 2004), Zakaria (cm, 2005), Neverending Maria Jesus (cm, 2006), Ensi e Shade (cm, 2006), Rew e Shade (cm, 2006), Raige e Shade (cm, 2006), Tanatologia, 14 maggio 1958 (cm, doc., 2007), L’esame di Xhodi (doc., 2007), Bakroman (doc., 2010), Dialoghi del Lys (mm, 2010), Sette opere di misericordia (2011).
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