Country: Italy
Year: 2007
Duration: 62'
Tirana, June 2007. The President of the United States of America, George W. Bush, visits Albania. Meanwhile, it’s exam time for the city’s Art Academy and Conservatory. “We found ourselves in Tirana in the same days that Bush’s visit was taking place. We chose to not speak about it, centering the story on the artistic gesture of students, professors and young pupils undergoing their exams, appearing and disappearing in one another. For us, theirs was an act of resistance. This is why L’esame di Xhodi is a political film.”
Biography
film director
Gianluca De Serio
Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio (Torino, Italy, 1978) have worked together since 1999, making shorts and documentaries, including Il giorno del santo, Maria Jesus, Mio fratello Yang, Zakaria, Ensi e Shade, Rew e Shade and L’esame di Xhodi. The films have been presented at many international festivals and received several awards, including three Silver Ribbons, the International prize for best film at Oberhausen and Edinburgh and nominations for two David di Donatellos and for the European Academy Award. Since 2007, they have been working as artists at the Guido Costa Projects gallery. Their film Bakroman won the prize for best documentary at the 2010 Torino Film Festival. Sette opera di Misericordia, their first feature fiction film, previewed at Locarno.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Poche cose (cm, 2001), Il giorno del santo (cm, 2002), Maria Jesus (cm, 2003), Mio fratello Yang (cm, 2004), Zakaria (cm, 2005), Neverending Maria Jesus (cm, 2006), Ensi e Shade (cm, 2006), Rew e Shade (cm, 2006), Raige e Shade (cm, 2006), Tanatologia, 14 maggio 1958 (cm, doc., 2007), L’esame di Xhodi (doc., 2007), Bakroman (doc., 2010), Dialoghi del Lys (mm, 2010), Sette opere di misericordia (2011).
Massimiliano De Serio
Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio (Torino, Italy, 1978) have worked together since 1999, making shorts and documentaries, including Il giorno del santo, Maria Jesus, Mio fratello Yang, Zakaria, Ensi e Shade, Rew e Shade and L’esame di Xhodi. The films have been presented at many international festivals and received several awards, including three Silver Ribbons, the International prize for best film at Oberhausen and Edinburgh and nominations for two David di Donatellos and for the European Academy Award. Since 2007, they have been working as artists at the Guido Costa Projects gallery. Their film Bakroman won the prize for best documentary at the 2010 Torino Film Festival. Sette opera di Misericordia, their first feature fiction film, previewed at Locarno.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Poche cose (cm, 2001), Il giorno del santo (cm, 2002), Maria Jesus (cm, 2003), Mio fratello Yang (cm, 2004), Zakaria (cm, 2005), Neverending Maria Jesus (cm, 2006), Ensi e Shade (cm, 2006), Rew e Shade (cm, 2006), Raige e Shade (cm, 2006), Tanatologia, 14 maggio 1958 (cm, doc., 2007), L’esame di Xhodi (doc., 2007), Bakroman (doc., 2010), Dialoghi del Lys (mm, 2010), Sette opere di misericordia (2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director Gianluca De Serio Massimiliano De Serio,
fotografia/director of photography Piero Basso
montaggio/film editor Enrico Bisi, Stefano Cravero
suono/sound Mirko Guerra
interpreti/cast Gazmend Leka, Klevi Pove, Qerim Greva, Marsina Domi, Fatma Tabaky, Xhodi Skura
produttore/producer Alessandro Borrelli
produzione/production La Sarraz Pictures
fotografia/director of photography Piero Basso
montaggio/film editor Enrico Bisi, Stefano Cravero
suono/sound Mirko Guerra
interpreti/cast Gazmend Leka, Klevi Pove, Qerim Greva, Marsina Domi, Fatma Tabaky, Xhodi Skura
produttore/producer Alessandro Borrelli
produzione/production La Sarraz Pictures
TFF
prizes
