Country: Italy
Year: 2012
Duration: 80'
Alina is a girl of gypsy origins who has been living in Paris for years. When she returns to her hometown near Cagliari, she befriends a police commissioner in his fifties. In this new dimension she will confront herself and her deepest emotions, reviewing her life, her dreams, and her true identity. This passage will mark the end of her childhood and the beginning of her maturity, making her more aware of her weaknesses. And the past will breach into the future that awaits the woman.
Biography
film director
Peter Marcias
(Oristano, Italy, 1977) started out by directing a number of short films, including Olivia, Il canto delle cicale and Sono Alice, which premiered at an array of international festivals, including Taipei, Giffoni, Istanbul and São Paulo. He went on to make his first feature film, Un attimo sospesi (2008), followed by I bambini della sua vita (2011), which earned Piera Degli Espositi the Globo d'Oro. In 2012 Dimmi che destino avrò was presented at the Torino Film Festival. In 2015 his film La nostra quarantena was a special event at the Pesaro Festival of New Cinema and was shortlisted for the Silver Ribbons. He has also directed a number of documentaries, such as Liliana Cavani, una donna nel cinema (2010), screened at Venice Days; Tutte le storie di Piera (2013), which premiered at the Torino Film Festival and won a Special Silver Ribbon; along with Ma la Spagna non era cattolica? (2007) and Silenzi e parole (2017) both about LGBT rights. In 2018 his documentary Uno sguardo alla Terra premiered at the Trieste Film Festival and the London and Guangzhou documentary film festivals. He was back at Giornate degli Autori the same year to present his short L'unica lezione (2018). Nilde Iotti, il tempo delle donne, his latest documentary film, presented at the Venice Days in 2020. It was then nominated for the Nastri D’Argento.
FILMOGRAFIA
La recita (cm, 2000), Il regalo (cm, 2001), L’alba (cm, 2002), Il canto delle cicale (cm, 2004), Olivia (cm, 2003), Ritorno a Serravalle (doc., 2003), Antonio Romagnino (doc., 2004), Bambini (coregia Andrea Burrafato, Alessio Maria Federici, Michele Rho, ep. Sono Alice, 2006), Ma la Spagna non era cattolica? (doc., 2007), Un attimo sospesi (2008), Liliana Cavani, una donna nel cinema (doc., 2010), I bambini della sua vita (2011), Dimmi che destino avrò (2012), Tutte le storie di Piera (doc., 2013), My Destiny (cm, 2013), Il mondo sopra la testa (cm, 2013), Sono uguali in vacanza (cm, 2014), Silenzi e parole (doc, 2017), Uno sguardo alla Terra (doc, 2018), L'unica lezione (cm, 2018), Nilde Iotti, il tempo delle donne (doc, 2020), Lo sguardo esterno (cm, 2022).
Declaration
film director
“It is a story that relates to situations I cherish, like diversity, integration, social drama, confronted with a touch of magical realism. Among the specific and most significant choices made while developing this project, I shared the clear refusal of being easily tempted by an anthropologic or sociologic style of writing, and the choice of treating the relation between two cultures (rom and ‘gaggè’) directly, without veils or conditioning that would otherwise alter the essence of the problem.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Peter Marcias
soggetto, sceneggiatura/ story, screenplay Gianni Loy
fotografia/cinematography Alberto López Palacios
montaggio/film editing Danilo Torre
scenografia/ production design Andrea Meloni
costumi/ costume design Stefania Grilli
musica/music Eric Neveux
suono/sound Davide Sardo
interpreti/cast Luli Bitri, Salvatore Cantalupo, Andrea Dianetti, Vesna Bajramovic, Davide Careddu, Pietrina Menneas, Nino Nonnis, Merfin Selimovic, Vinettu Sulejmanovic
produttore/producer: Gianluca Arcopinto
soggetto, sceneggiatura/ story, screenplay Gianni Loy
fotografia/cinematography Alberto López Palacios
montaggio/film editing Danilo Torre
scenografia/ production design Andrea Meloni
costumi/ costume design Stefania Grilli
musica/music Eric Neveux
suono/sound Davide Sardo
interpreti/cast Luli Bitri, Salvatore Cantalupo, Andrea Dianetti, Vesna Bajramovic, Davide Careddu, Pietrina Menneas, Nino Nonnis, Merfin Selimovic, Vinettu Sulejmanovic
produttore/producer: Gianluca Arcopinto
produzione e distribuzione/production and distribution: Axelotil Film
vendita all’estero/ world sales The Open Reel
