Country: Italy
Year: 2012
Duration: 24'
There is a place in the mountains of Honduras where the passing of time is marked by prayers and rituals. An old woman walks barefoot in the mountains. A man dies accompanied by an angel. They are surrounded by the voices of their ancestors and the courage of a small indigenous community that prefers taking care of their land rather then selling it off.
Biography
film director
Raffaella Mantegazza
Raffaella Mantegazza (Busto Arsizio, Varese, Italy, 1982) studied photography and visual arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, and graduated in cultural anthropology and ethnography from the University of Turin. Besides working as an independent photographer, she also dedicates herself to art, exhibiting her artwork in personal and collective shows.
FILMOGRAFIA
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Yukai Ebisuno
Yukai Ebisuno (Portoferraio, Livorno, Italy, 1982), son of an Italian mother and a Japanese father, graduated in film studies from the DAMS in Turin. He started working as a set designer, and he collaborated with the cultural society Documè in 2009. He completed his master’s in documentary filmmaking at IED in Milan, making the short documentary Il lago canta. He then directed with Raffaella Mantegazza the documentary La cité de la lumière (2010); in 2012 they directed Honduras sin derechos and Spiriti, which won the Italiana.Corti section at the 30th Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Yukai Ebisuno:
Muovi equilibri (cm, doc., 2009), Bike vs Car (cm, 2009), Il lago canta, (cm, doc., 2010), Ortometraggio (cm, doc., 2010).
Yukai Ebisuno, Raffaella Mantegazza:
La cité de la lumière (cm, doc., 2010), Honduras sin derechos (cm, doc., 2012), Spiriti (cm, doc., 2012), Il lago (doc., 2013).
Declaration
film director
“‘Spirituality comes before everything else.’ Every day spent with Pascualita, the old curandera of the Lenca community where we shot the film, is marked by these words. It kept popping in our minds while we were working on the editing phase. A type of spirituality based on taking care of your land and your community, a kind that responds with the wisdom of song to the threat of death; a death that is individual today, but which will perhaps become a collective one tomorrow. A guide for what is truly important. We tried to convey this lesson in telling her story.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, fotografia, suono, produttori/directors, story,
cinematography, sound, producers Yukai Ebisuno, Raffaella Mantegazza
montaggio/film editing Matteo Tortone, Yukai Ebisuno, Raffaella Mantegazza musica/music Jonathan Cooper, Kirk J. Gay interpreti/cast
Pascuala Vásquez, comunità Lenca di/Lenca community in Plan De Barrio
coproduzione/coproduction CICA, COPINH
montaggio/film editing Matteo Tortone, Yukai Ebisuno, Raffaella Mantegazza musica/music Jonathan Cooper, Kirk J. Gay interpreti/cast
Pascuala Vásquez, comunità Lenca di/Lenca community in Plan De Barrio
coproduzione/coproduction CICA, COPINH
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