Country: Italy
Year: 2004
Duration: 78
It is a documentary about the fishermen of
Lampedusa who live in Rimini. Franco has come to the North of Italy 40
years ago, when the city was expanding because of holiday rituals and
myths. One by one, other friends from Lampedusa joined him: Agostino and
his nephew Michele, Giovanni, Giacomo, Pino and other fishermen of the
Mediterranean sea. Now poverty seems faraway and Franco is building a
big fishing boat, Sarina III, for his wife Rosaria.
"Telling a story of a fishermen community from Lampedusa in Rimini means
telling about an invisible juxtaposition of reality, the discovery of
languages, habits and stories never told before. It means digging into
unknown territories, knowing about a lost and found sense of belonging:
to approach and find new icons, with a transversal look, able to become
a wider reflection on the destiny of peoples." (M. Bertozzi)
Biography
film director
Marco Bertozzi
Marco Bertozzi (Bologna, 1963) has made several documentaries on urban imaginery and cultural identities, such as Lo scenario della vacanza nella metropoli balneare romagnola (1989), Note per quattro amici (1992), Fieri... e basta! (1999), Appunti Romani (2004), all prize-winning. A student of Ermanno Olmi and Mario Brenta at Ipotesi Cinema, he is a researcher in Film History and Philology and teaches Documentary Direction at Rome University Tre and History of Documentary Film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. He is one of the founders of DOC/IT and author of many essays on cinema.
FILMOGRAFIA
Lo scenario della vacanza nella metropoli balneare romagnola (1989), Note per quattro amici (1992), Fieri... e basta! (1999), Appunti Romani (2004), Rimini Lampedusa Italia (2004).