Country: France, Italy
Year: 2017
Duration: 19'
Stefano’s world is the forest where he plays. The river where he dreams. And the cave where he seeks shelter. This world of his will soon disappear when Stefano has to leave with his father and go far, far away. It won’t be easy, and the departure won’t even be the hardest part…From the novel Tetano by Alessio Torino, published by Minimum Fax.
Biography
film director
Chiara Malta
Chiara Malta (Rome, Italy, 1977) has lived in Paris since 2002. She made several shorts, spanning from fiction to animation and documentaries, which received awards from many festivals and were aired on television by France2, Canal+, and Arte. After shooting the documentary Armando e la politica (2008) and participating to the Torino Film Festival, she spent a year in Italy, studying in Villa Medici in Rome on a scholarship from the French Academy. With her subsequent projects, Gli occhi della volpe, L’esistenza secondo Gabriel (2015) and The Story of Stefano (since then known as Tetano), she started exploring childhood, tinged with realist magic and pagan divinities. She is currently working on her first feature film, Simple Women, which came about after meeting the actress Elina Löwensohn.
FILMOGRAFIA
L’isle (cm, 2006), Armando e la politica (doc., 2008), J’attends une femme (cm, 2009), L’amour à trois (cm, 2010), Les yeux du renard (cm, 2012), L’existence selon Gabriel (cm, 2015), Storia di Stefano (da allora detto Tetano) (cm, 2017).
Declaration
film director
“The Story of Stefano hinges on a simple drama, akin to a fairytale or a myth. It describes the bond between a child and the landscape that saw him grow up. The story is told from Stefano’s perspective just before the death of his father. He didn’t see him die, but he still heard it. In this short parable, Stefano gets in touch with a magical, supernatural universe: nature comforts the young hero and gives him the courage to face his destiny. [...] I wanted to make a movie that had seismic strength, where adults are relegated to a marble quarry, a massive and noisy arena, full of machines and dust, a place of sweat and pain. While childhood, instead, is sensorial, sensitive, divinatory, in perfect osmosis with nature.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Chiara Malta
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay
Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach, Alessio Torino
montaggio/film editing
Giorgia Villa, Julien Ngo-Trong
musica/music
Olivier Mellano
suono/sound
Julien Ngo-Trong, Xavier Marsais
interpreti/cast
Lulu Karadimos, Erwan Creignou
**
contatti/contacts
Manifest
Anaïs Colpin
anais@manifest.pictures
www.manifest.pictures
Chiara Malta
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay
Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach, Alessio Torino
montaggio/film editing
Giorgia Villa, Julien Ngo-Trong
musica/music
Olivier Mellano
suono/sound
Julien Ngo-Trong, Xavier Marsais
interpreti/cast
Lulu Karadimos, Erwan Creignou
**
contatti/contacts
Manifest
Anaïs Colpin
anais@manifest.pictures
www.manifest.pictures
