35° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
FESTA MOBILE

TITO E GLI ALIENI

LITTLE TITO AND THE ALIENS
by Paola Randi
Country: Italy
Year: 2017
Duration: 92'


Ever since his wife died, the professor lives isolated from the world in the Nevada desert, near Area 51. He is supposed to be working on a secret project for the U.S. government but he actually spends his days on his couch, listening to the sounds of outer space. One day he receives a message from Naples: his brother is dying and has entrusted his children, 16-year-old Anita and 7-year-old Tito, to him.

Biography

film director

Paola Randi

Paola Randi (Milan) graduated in law, worked for international NGOs which foster women in the economy, and at the same time studied art, music and theatre. With Federico Parenti and Chiara Sforni she founded the journal “Ttr,” which from 1996 to 2000 lent its name to an international festival dedicated to experimental theatre. She moved to Rome and since 2003 has been exclusively involved in cinema. In 2004 she was selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus and that same year attended Werner Herzog’s seminar at the Holden School in Turin. She has written and directed feature films, shorts, documentaries, experimental videos, animated works and TV series. Her first feature film, Into Paradiso (2010), presented at the Venice Film Festival, received numerous awards, including Best Film at Nanni Moretti’s Festival Bimbi Belli and four David di Donatello nominations.

FILMOGRAFIA

Ufo! (cm, 2003), Sandokan Dreamin’ (cm, 2003), Giulietta della spazzatura (cm, 2003), Into Paradiso (2010), 9x10 novanta (ep. Progetto panico, cm, 2014), Tito e gli alieni (2017).

Declaration

film director

“It’s a small story, about people who are suspended, lost in an immense place: Area 51. […] A town of fifty-four inhabitants in the middle of the desert, cowboys and farmers, all of them convinced they are the guardians of a vaster universe and its secrets. A girl who organizes theme weddings. A couch and a professor. And this is where we find Tito and his sister Anita. Out of place but determined to find a solution. Anita plans on running away; Tito wants to talk with his father at all costs and is convinced that the depressed man on the couch, who doesn’t look like much, is actually a great scientist who can help him. And the extraterrestrials? Well, they are more a part of us than we know…”

Cast

& Credits

regia/director
Paola Randi
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Paola Randi, con la collaborazione di/with the collaboration of Massimo Gaudioso, Laura Lamanda
fotografia/cinematography
Roberto Forza
montaggio/film editing
Desideria Rayner
scenografia/production design
Paki Meduri
costumi/costume design
Maria Rita Barbera
musica/music
Giordano Corapi, Fausto Mesolella
suono/sound
Gianluca Scarlata
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Valerio Mastandrea (il professore/professor), Clemence Poesy (Stella), Luca Esposito (Tito), Chiara Stella Riccio (Anita), Miguel Herrera (Luke), John Keogh (il colonnello/colonel Daniels), Gianfelice Imparato (Fidel)
produttori/producers
Angelo e/and Matilde Barbagallo
produzione/production
Bibi Film, Rai Cinema


**
contatti/contacts
Bibi Film
Angelo Barbagallo
bibifilm@gmail.com
Menu