31° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
TFFDOC/ITALIANA.DOC

SANPERÈ! - VENISSE IL FULMINE

SANPERÈ! - GREAT THUNDERBOLTS
by Francesca Frigo
Country: Italy
Year: 2013
Duration: 70'


A year in the shelter of Caramagna (in Piedmont) where Diarra, a young man from Côte d’Ivoire, and his companions of misfortune live. They arrived from Libya, and they are waiting to get an immigrant visa and political asylum. Some of them fled from war, others are seeking a new future, for which they paid handsomely. The empty days are interspersed with conversations, confrontations, and the looming prospect of the shelter closing... Until the so-called “North Africa emergency,” which they found themselves involuntarily involved in, comes to an end. Diarra and the others are forced to hit the road again, each of them heading toward a different destiny.

Biography

film director

Francesca Frigo

Francesca Frigo (Rome, Italy, 1982) worked in photography for short films and music videos during her university years. She started working as a filmmaker in 2007, making documentary films and television shows (for the channels RAI3, MTV, RealTime). She has also been working for the Turin-based production company BabyDoc Film, making partner in 2012. Sanperè! - Venisse il fulmine is her first feature-length documentary.

FILMOGRAFIA

Sanperè! - Venisse il fulmine (doc., 2013).

Declaration

film director

“The idea comes from a yearning for knowledge. […] We went to the shelter for almost a year, listening to the people who lived there and participating to their changes. I tried to capture in my film the looks and the opinions they have made about us and about their experience seeking political asylum in Italy.”

Cast

& Credits

REGIA, FOTOGRAFIA
Francesca Frigo 
SOGGETTO
Andrea Parena, Francesca Frigo 
MONTAGGIO
Enrico Giovannone 
SUONO
Niccolò Bosio 
INTERPRETI
Doiarè Diarra, Youssouf Darko, Kamara Tinemakan, Lassine Karim Doumbia, Youssouf Diallo, Ibrahim Diallo, Nouhou Kouame, Adama Sangare
PRODUZIONE
BabyDoc Film 
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