31° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
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IL SUD È NIENTE

SOUTH IS NOTHING
by Fabio Mollo
Country: Italy, France
Year: 2013
Duration: 90'


When you are seventeen, you question everything, destroy who you are, and start looking for your definitive self. That also applies to Grazia, who lives in Reggio Calabria with her brother’s ghost, whose death is shrouded in silence. It is time for her to overturn a situation that threatens to trap her. One night, after arguing with her father, she goes into the sea; there she sees a figure, which she recognizes as her brother. She interprets it as a sign to keep pushing her father into revealing her the truth.

Biography

film director

Fabio Mollo

Fabio Mollo (Reggio Calabria, Italy, 1980) majored in film history from the University of East London in 2002, and in directing from the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome in 2007. His directorial debut, the short film Troppo vento (2003), received many awards. He has written and directed several documentary films, including Giganti (2007), which won the Best Short Film Award at the Torino Film Festival; it also reveived a Special Mention at the Nastri d’argento and at the Clermont-Ferrand Festival, and it competed in the Berlinale. He was a finalist for the Solinas Award in 2005. He was selected for the Atelier de la Cinéfondation of the Cannes Festival and for the Talent Project Market at the Berlinale in 2011. Il Sud è niente, his first feature film, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was screened at Berlinale, at the International Film Festival of Rome and at the 31st Torino Film Festival. He was nominated for the best debuting director awards at the Nastri d'argento and the Globi d'oro.

FILMOGRAFIA

Troppo vento (cm, 2003), Acqua (cm, 2004), Ogni piccola cosa (cm, 2004), Quello che sento (cm, 2004), Cuntami (cm, 2004), Carmilla (cm, 2005), Al buio (cm, 2005), Giganti (cm, 2007), Napoli 24 (coregia/codirectors aa.vv., cm, 2010), Il Sud è niente (2013), Vincenzo da Crosia (doc., 2015).

Declaration

film director

“There still are parts of our society where silence is the most violent weapon to which everyone bows down to. It’s a matter of life choices, a way to survive, a collective belief, the consequence of a sort of unfortunately well-rooted tradition. The code of silence affects people’s social lives, but also their private and emotional spheres. It’s the story of a father and his daughter, and of the silence that is tearing their relationship apart.”

Cast

& Credits

REGIA
Fabio Mollo
SCENEGGIATURA
Fabio Mollo, Andrea Paolo Massara, Josella Porto
FOTOGRAFIA
Debora Vrizzi
MONTAGGIO
Filippo Montemurro
SCENOGRAFIA
Giovanna Cirianni
MUSICA
Giorgio Giampà
SUONO
Marta Billingsley, Piero Fancellu, Edouard Morin, Piergiorgio De Luca
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Miriam Karlkvist (Grazia), Vinicio Marchioni (Cristiano), Valentina Lodovini (Bianca), Andrea Bellisario (Carmelo), Alessandra Costanzo (la nonna/grandmother), Giorgio Musumeci (Pietro)
PRODUTTORI
Jean Denis Le Dinahet, Sebastien Msika
PRODUZIONE
b24 Film, Madakai
DISTRIBUZIONE
Istituto Luce Cinecittà
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