23° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

Manoorè

Country: Italy

Year: 2005

Duration: 54

There is a place in Turin in the North of Italy, where representatives of the world of workers from the societies most hit by the process of globalisation, meet and discuss the problems. It is the International Centre of the OIL (international labour organisation). Every year around 600 unionists come to Turin to follow training courses. 40% are women. Awa from Senegal, Rita from Brazil and Catherine from Malaysia come to Turin to study the problems and the challenges that globalisation makes for the world of labour, and particularly the countries of the so called Southern Hemisphere.

"Manooré, in the Woolof language, means 'your great ability.' Awa, Rita and Catherine, the 3 leading characters of this film, are union representatives. Women, who have always been erroneously considered the weak link of the economic and social chain, fight, organize themselves, make coalitions and come from every latitude of the planet. They fight for workers' rights, for women and men, rights which today more than ever, in the time of globalization, are denied." (D. Menozzi)

FILM DIRECTOR

PRIZES

Biography

film director

Daria Menozzi

Daria Menozzi (Modena, 1958) in 1986 founded VBR, a videoproduction Company and made various documentaries and video, in Italy and Africa. In 1988 she made A Dedication to Marguerite followed, in 1991, by her first feature film Flies in the head. From 1995 to 1999 she was involved with the making of Intermedia, a TV series which were documentaries and reports on the theme of multiethnic societies and the relationships between the Northern and the Southern Worlds. In 2000 she made Bike Baba in competition at the Turin Film Festival, and at the NAFA Festival. Now she is working on a documentary with the provisional title Probationary Days.

FILMOGRAFIA

Dedicato a Marguerite (cm, 1988), Le mosche in testa (1991), Intermedia (TV, 1995), Sprecare Sentimenti (video, 1997), L’ideogramma capovolto (video, 1998), Germano Almeida Scrittore (video, doc., 1999), Bike Baba (video, doc., 2000), Figli delle stelle (video, 2001), L’acqua in mezzo (video, 2002), Radio clandestina (video, 2004), Manooré (doc., 2005).

TFF

prizes

CIPPUTI AWARD 2005

Best Movie about Working World