Country: Italy
Year: 2005
Duration: 54'


Families produce aims in the shape of children to be brought up. But unless there's a hope for them to better themselves and their social status - which is something very unusual - children are sentenced to live that very same life. This fate causes great pain. And a great feeling of emptiness. Especially to the less gifted and educated. Those who are not aware of all this, thanks to their privileged condition, cannot pass judgement on the actions of those who endure that kind of life. It won't bring them to death, but it's as much painful as hunger. And even more. Because there's nothing that can mend this pain, while food can always save from famine.
 
"Do I have something to declare? I remeber getting through customs at the Swiss frontier. I had some wine hidden under the car seat as a present for my friends who had emigrated to Zurich: 'Nothing to declare?'-'Nothing'". (T. Cotronei)
 
Tommaso Contronei (Calabria, 1955) comincia giovanissimo a lavorare al fianco dei genitori. Nel 1993 diventa aiuto regista di Vittorio de Seta, impegnato per il documentario In Calabria, e nel cinema trova finalmente un modo di esprimersi. Nel 1998 realizza il suo primo film, Nel blu cercando fiabe, presentato ad Arcipelago Cinema, a Roma.

Biography

film director

Tommaso Cotronei

Tommaso Cotronei (Calabria, 1955), as young boy, began working with his parents. In 1993 he became assistant director to Vittorio de Seta, while filming on the set of In Calabria, and eventually found the way to express himself at his best through film directing. In 1997 he made his first film, Nel blu cercando fiabe selected at Arcipelago Cinema in Rome.

FILMOGRAFIA

Nel blu cercando fiabe (1997), Lavoratori (2005).

TFF

prizes

DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION 2005

Special Award

CINEMAVVENIRE AWARD 2005

Documentary competition Best Film

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