23° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

Per sempre

Country: Italy

Year: 2005

Duration: 52

This documentary considers the reasons why some women choose to live under monastic rules in religious communities.

The director has met this reality and wonders how it is possible, for today's women, to make such an extreme and final decision, that will last forever. The nature of such a choice lays in the values of the community, in the attempt to go beyond one's individual ego. All this within a view of faith and love, where the rule and its meaning are a firm reference in a life out of the ordinary.

"I didn't want to simply represent a cultural and religious order of women and its context. I just tried to tell how I've come to know these women, hoping their experience could be of some help, for us, in order to better understand our own choices.

My effort was to talk about something hard to be portrayed in discreet tones, within the borders of monastic life, yet going over the grating of seclusion." (A. Marazzi)

FILM DIRECTOR

Biography

film director

Alina Marazzi

Alina Marazzi (1964) lives and works in Milan.She has directed a number of documentaries, worked as an assistant director and collaborated to arts and video-arts projects. With the film Un’ora sola ti vorrei (2002) she won several international awards such as best documentary at the Torino Film Festival, the Newport International Film Festival, the special jury prize in Locarno and the Festival dei Popoli in Florence.

FILMOGRAFIA

Il declino di Milano (doc., 1992), Mediterraneo, il mare industrializzato (doc., 1993), Il Ticino è vicino? (doc., 1995), Ragazzi dentro (doc., 1997), Il sogno tradito (doc., 1999), Un’ora sola ti vorrei (doc., 2002), Per sempre (doc., 2005).