Country: Italy
Year: 2005
Duration: 54
In the second journey to her hometown Riga, Latvian writer Marina Jarre is following in the steps of her father, lost and rejected. Deeply moved, she will find again the untouched places of the hard times of her childhood, swept away in human history, devastated by the appalling tragedy of war and destruction. The story is told in images and supported by the personal testimonies of Marina and Bella Blumberg, one of the few survived the Shoah in Latvia. Both memory and regret for what is now irrecoverable will only die down on the threshold of the night, on a beach where the sun will never set, in a Balkan Summer. "Filming this documentary with Marina Jarre meant to me something like a journey within the journey itself. Through her words, her look and her silence I could hear the story of a little girl who lost her father at 10 and the story of woman - whose hair is now turning white - who finds him again, 70 years later". (D. Gaglianone)
Biography
film director
Daniele Gaglianone
(Ancona, 1966) in 1991 began collaborating with the National Film Archives of the Italian Resistance. After the short La ferita (1991), which received a prize at Turin’s Festival Cinema Giovani, he debuted in feature films with I nostri anni (Our Years), selected for the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes. In 2004, with his film Nemmeno il destino (Changing Destiny), he won the Tiger Award in Rotterdam. With Rata neće biti (la guerra non ci sarà), in 2008 he won a Special Jury Prize at the Torino Film Festival and a David di Donatello for best documentary. In 2009, he made Pietro, his third fiction feature film, presented in competition in Locarno, and in 2011 Ruggine (Rust), presented at the Giornate degli Autori in Venice, as was La mia classe (My Class, 2013). In 2014, his documentary Qui, was presented at the Torino Film Festival,and in 2016, he made the short film Granma with the Nigerian filmmaker Alfie Nze, presented at Locarno. That same year, he made the short Joy, presented in Venice. The following year, he shot the TV documentary Sorelle d’Italia and presented in Turin Dove bisogna stare. In 2019, with Lina Fucà and Paolo Leonardo, he inaugurated the exhibit Solo da bambini at the Fondazione Merz in Turin. He also teaches and directs plays with the group Il BuioFuori.
FILMOGRAFIA
Nella solitudine del sangue (cm, 1990), Era meglio morire da piccoli (cm, 1992), L’orecchio ferito del piccolo comandante (cm, 1994), La carne sulle ossa (cm, 1996), I nostri anni (2000), Le domeniche del Signor Mantaut (doc., 2003), Nemmeno il destino (2004), Alle soglie della sera (doc., 2005), Rata neće biti (la guerra non ci sarà) (doc., 2008), Pietro (2009), Ruggine (2011), La mia classe (2013), Qui (doc., 2014), Granma (coregia Alfie Nze, mm, doc., 2017), Dove bisogna stare (doc., 2018), Sorelle d’Italia (tv, doc, 2018), Il tempo rimasto (doc, 2021).
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