30° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
ITALIANA.CORTI

UN MONDO MEGLIO CHE NIENTE

by Cobol Pongide, Marco Santarelli
Country: Italy
Year: 2012
Duration: 39'


A space explorer lands on a planet that was presumably once inhabited by human beings. As his species usually does, he starts to document the world he has just discovered. The resemblance of the alien planet to his own leads him infringe standard operating procedures and he remains there for a long time, perhaps too long: he soon becomes the sentinel of that world which is uninhabited and enchanted. Many years pass and the explorer, whose emotions have pushed him beyond his original duties, feels that he has concluded his mission. But when the moment comes to abandon the planet, he makes a discovery which forces him once again, and this time definitively, to change his mind. Starring Romano Talone, the last ice cream vendor who still sold his wares in Rome’s cinemas.

Biography

film director

Marco Santarelli

Marco Santarelli (Rome), independent documentary filmmaker and TV director for Rai and Sky, shot the documentaries Superluoghi. Viaggio in Italia and Storie di housing sociale. Viaggio in Europa in 2008 and 2009. In 2009, he presented Interporto at the Torino Film Festival; this is the second film of a trilogy dedicated to the world of transportation which began with the movie GenovaTripoli. His film Scuolamedia won the UCCA prize at the 2011 Torino Film Festival, where, the next year, he received a special mention for his sci-fi short Un mondo meglio che niente. His last documentary, Lettera al Presidente (2013), distributed by Cinecittà-Luce, was presented in competition at the Rome Film Festival and at the Rotterdam Film Festival, and in 2014 it received a special mention at the Nastri d’argento.

FILMOGRAFIA

Superluoghi. Viaggio in Italia (doc., 2008), Storie di housing sociale. Viaggio in Europa (doc., 2009), GenovaTripoli (doc., 2009), Interporto (doc., 2009), Scuolamedia (doc., 2010), Milleunanotte (doc., 2012), Un mondo meglio che niente (cm, 2012), Lettera al Presidente (doc., 2013), Dustur (2015).

Cobol Pongide

Cobol Pongide, musician, video maker and animator. In 2006, he and Santarelli made the docufiction Mondoratto, presented at the Torino Film Festival, and the TV series MondoPsicoTronico. In 2011 he participated in the Circuito off section of the Venice Film Festival with Il peggior ingaggio della mia vita.

FILMOGRAFIA

Cobol Pongide:
Il peggior ingaggio della mia vita (cm, 2011).

Cobol Pongide, Marco Santarelli:
Mondoratto (doc., 2006), MondoPsicoTronico (tv, 2006), Un mondo meglio che niente (cm, 2012).

Declaration

film director

“I’ve followed a characteristic of my personality, which is taking care of the things thrown away by the others, whoever they are. I’m just like that: it’s better than nothing.” (Romano Talone)

Cast

& Credits

regia, sceneggiatura, montaggio, musica, suono/directors, screenplay, film editing, music, sound Cobol Pongide, Marco Santarelli
interprete/cast Romano Talone
produzione/production Otto Filmaker

TFF

prizes

ITALIANA.CORTI 2012

Special Mention

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