Country: Italy
Year: 2011
Duration: 67'
Paola is about to turn eighteen and for the past four years she has lived in a community, far from her family. She cannot return home, nor does she want to. The daughter of a Muslim woman and a farmer, she is torn between two very different cultures. Now, after a long period of suffering, she is forced to face all the difficulties tied to the end of her adolescence and her coming of age. “The idea of the film comes from a play that I didn’t see but that was recounted to me. In the play, Paola, the young protagonist of my film, sings a poem by Mariangela Gualtieri: ‘I swear I will save my delicacy.’ When they presented her to me I was immediately caught up in her attractive gaze, which it is nice to lose yourself in. Ulidi piccola mia is a movie about delicacy, which I think is absolutely the most unconventional feeling there is. The most scandalous and maybe the most revolutionary. This is why I want the images to have an almost physical effect on the audience: like a comforting hug, a type of released energy that gives courage.”
Biography
film director
Mateo Zoni
Mateo Zoni (Parma, Italy, 1979) directed the documentary Fassbinder: dritto al cuore di Alexanderplatz in 2001; it was produced and broadcast by RaiSat Cinema. Three years later, it was followed by Rashomon o della verità, a documentary that was commissioned by the Centro Cultural de Belém, about a production of the play Rashomon, by Ry?nosuke Akutagawa, which was performed by a group of farmers in a rural village in Portugal. He then made Hanna Schygulla vede Hanna Schygulla, an interview with the great actress, a true inspirational muse of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, with whom she has made over twenty films, as she reflects on her life and career. In 2007, he directed the short Quando arrivano le vacanze, produced by the Solares Foundation of the Arts. Ulidi piccola mia is his first feature-length fiction film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Fassbinder: dritto al cuore di Alexanderplatz (cm, doc., 2001), Rashomon o della verità (mm, doc., 2004), Hanna Shygulla vede Hanna Shygulla (cm, 2006), Quando arrivano le vacanze (cm, 2007), Ulidi piccola mia (2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Mateo Zoni
soggetto/story
dal libro/from the book Fuga dalla follia di/by Maria Zirilli
fotografia/cinematography
Alessandro Chiodo
montaggio/film editing
Sara Pazienti
scenografia/production design
Andrea Gualandri
musica/music
Piernicola Di Muro
suono/sound
Ettore Santo
interpreti/cast
Paola Pugnetti, Giada Meraglia, Marcella Diena, Eleonora Deidda, Marco Romeo, Laura Polito, Stefano Bardi, Eleonora Rizzi, Giancarlo Pugnetti, Mina Bettache, Mirko Salati, Dante Pugnetti, Fousia Bettache, Mohammed Bettache, Fabio Vanni, Alessandro Nidi
produttori/producers
Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Andrea Gambetta, Mateo Zoni
produzione/production
Indigofilm, Cineteca di Bologna, Solares Fondazione delle Arti
vendita all’estero/world sales
Solares Fondazione delle Arti
