33° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
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IRRAWADDY MON AMOUR

IRRAWADDY MON AMOUR
by Valeria Testagrossa, Nicola Grignani, Andrea Zambelli
Country: Italy
Year: 2015
Duration: 58'


Soe Ko and Saing Ko decide to get married, supported by the activist Myo Nyunt. That’s the first gay marriage in Burma. This is a courageous decision to affirm the right to love in a country where freedom is still a chimera. 

Biography

film director

Valeria Testagrossa

Valeria Testagrossa studied journalism at Westminster University in London, and worked for “The Guardian.”

FILMOGRAFIA

Nicola Grignani, Valeria Testagrossa, Andrea Zambelli:
Striplife (coregia/codirectors Alberto Mussolini, Luca Scaffidi, doc., 2013).

Nicola Grignani

Nicola Grignani founded the collective Teleimmagini in 2002 with Alberto Mussolini and Luca Scaffidi. He and Filippo Ticozzi then directed, for Marcopolo, the series of documentaries Il paese sottile (2007). 

FILMOGRAFIA

Nicola Grignani:
Il paese sottile (coregia/codirector Filippo Ticozzi, doc., 2007), Historias de Guatemala (doc., 2008), Un pagamu, la tassa della paura (coregia/codirectors Claudio Metallo, Mico Meloni, doc., 2010).


Nicola Grignani, Valeria Testagrossa, Andrea Zambelli:
Striplife (coregia/codirectors Alberto Mussolini, Luca Scaffidi, doc., 2013).

Andrea Zambelli

(Bergamo, 1975) participated at the 2008 Torino Film Festival and the next year at the Toronto Film Festival with From Mother to Daughter. He collaborated with Davide Ferrario on After Midnight (2003) and Primo Levi’s Journey (2005). Along with Alberto Mussolini and Luca Scaffidi, they directed Striplife, which won the Jury Special Prize, the Avanti! Award and the Gandhi Award at the 2013 Torino Film Festival. In Turin he also presented Rino - La mia ascia di guerra and Irrawaddy mon amour, both shot in 2015, followed by another documentary Killing Time (2018).

FILMOGRAFIA

Farebbero tutti silenzio (doc., cm, 2001), Deheishe Refugees Camp (cm, doc., 2002), 052 (cm, 2002), Identità (mm, doc., 2003), MisuraXmisura (mm, doc., 2004), Nightshot (mm, videoclip, 2005), Mercancìa (cm, doc., 2006), Di madre in figlia (doc., 2008), Striplife (coregia/codirectors Alberto Mussolini, Luca Scaffidi, doc., 2013), Rino - La mia ascia di guerra (doc., 2015), Irrawaddy mon amour (doc., 2015), Killing Time (doc., 2018), A guardia di un fede (doc., 2023).

Declaration

film director

“Like every struggle, the collective dimension springs from someone’s personal need. We felt close to Myo Nyunt, Soe Ko and Saing Ko’s choice to affirm themselves, their dreams, and to fight for a better future in a difficult context. To us, it was like a shout of freedom in a country which has been governed by military elite for over fifty years. […] We wanted to recount this story with a poetic and sometimes suspended style, convinced that it was the best style for recounting the delicacy of this love. We used hand-held cameras to follow the protagonists because we believe it’s the best way to capture the repression that hovers and insinuates itself in the minds of people, even though it remains invisible. It’s an almost imperceptible, but nonetheless less distressing, threat. 

Cast

& Credits

regia/directors
Nicola Grignani, Valeria Testagrossa, Andrea Zambelli
fotografia/cinematography
Andrea Zambelli, Valeria Testagrossa
montaggio/film editing
Luca Gasparini
musica/music
Giulio Ciccia, Marco Offredi
suono/sound
Nicola Grignani, Salvatore Tagliavia
produttore/producer
Enrico Pacciani
produzione/production
Alkermes


contatti/contacts
Alkermes
info@alkermesfilms.com
www.alkermesfilms.com
www.irrawaddymonamour.com
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