29° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
ITALIANA.DOC

BAD WEATHER

by Giovanni Giommi
Country: Germany, UK
Year: 2011
Duration: 83'


Banishanta is a small strip of land, one hundred meters long and ten meters wide, located in the Bay of Bengal, south of Bangladesh. It is inhabited by a community of prostitutes. Rising water levels, the erosion of the land and the frequent hurricanes are slowly cancelling everything that still remains of the island. Razia, Khadija and Shefali, three of the last 65 women still on the island, fight every day for their homes and the future of their families. Soon, the entire population of Banishanta will be underwater, thus becoming one of the communities which have fallen victim to climate change.

 

“In the social heterotopia of the island bordello of Banishanta, madness, destiny, love, the body, social demands and childhood take on unexpected – and sometimes contradictory – features that are nonetheless intensely vivid and authentic. By using these universal themes as a guiding star, the film tells the story of a few women of the island in order to paint a collective fresco of this extraordinary, and precarious, community of sexual workers.”

Biography

film director

Giovanni Giommi

giovanni giommi (Milan, Italy, 1965) studied at the Scuola civica di cinema in Milan, before working as a writer, producer and director for the TV channels Tele + and Mtv Italia. He then made Nel cuore delle alghe e dei coralli - I cento passi di Peppino Impastato, which he shot during the production of the film One Hundred Steps (2000) by Marco Tullio Giordana. He next directed Beisbol and in 2005 he began collaborating with Massimo Coppola on the TV series of TV Avere ventanni. The following year, he presented Politica Zero at the Torino Film Festival and in 2007, always at the TFF, his film Les ninjas du Japon won the Avanti! award. Parafernalia was selected for the Locarno Film Festival and for the 2008 Courmayeur Noir Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

filmografia/filmography

Sol y sombra (doc., 1997), Nel cuore delle alghe e dei coralli - I cento passi di Peppino Impastato (doc., 1999), Beisbol (doc., 2000), Nice! (doc., 2000), Frames - Variazioni per catena di montaggio (doc., 2004), Avere ventanni (coregia/codirectors Massimo Coppola, Alberto Piccinini, tv, doc., 2005-2007), Politica zero (coregia/codirectors Massimo Coppola, Alberto Piccinini, doc., 2006), Les ninjas du Japon (doc., 2007), Parafernalia (doc., 2008), Bad Weather (doc., 2011).

Cast

& Credits

regia, fotografia/director, cinematography

Giovanni Giommi 

montaggio/film editing

Fabio Capalbo

musica/music

Ursula Schifflein

suono/sound

Igor Francescutti, Bruno Pappalettera

produttore/producer

Heino Deckert

produzione/production

ma.ja.de. filmproduktion

coproduttori/coproducers

Brian Hill, Carlotta Mastroianni

coproduzione/coproduction

Century Films, Cornbread Films, Zdf

vendita all’estero/world sales

Deckert Distribution

TFF

prizes

UCCA AWARD 2011

Special Mention

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