Country: Italy
Year: 2021
Duration: 27'
We asked boys and girls aged 10 to 14 to send us a video, in horizontal format, to recount this very strange period between when lessons were suspended and when they went back to school. We wanted to give them the freedom to share their thoughts and emotions, as “stars,” in front of a smartphone's video camera, or as “directors,” behind the lens. These are the topics they could choose from: What dreams, good or bad, did you have during this period? A book/movie/series that kept you company. What did you miss most about school during the lockdown? Where would you love to go on a field trip? What is the thing (good or bad) that you'll never forget? How would you draw this period?
Biography
film director
Marco Ponti
(Italian director, screenwriter and writer, he made his feature film debut in 2001 with Santa Maradona, one of the year's major Italian box-office successes, which won two David di Donatello Awards and a Ciak d’Oro. In 2004 he directed A/R Andata + Ritorno, followed in 2013 by Passione sinistra, which he co-wrote and directed. In 2015 he achieved further box-office success with Io che amo solo te, based on Luca Bianchini’s novel, followed the following year by La cena di Natale and, in 2018, Una vita spericolata. Alongside his film work, he has worked in theatre and television, also contributing to the writing and adaptation of stage plays. In 2022 he directed La bella stagione, a documentary produced by Groenlandia and Rai Cinema about the friendship between Gianluca Vialli and Roberto Mancini, which won a Nastro d’Argento Award. He also worked as artistic producer on the docuseries Il Principe - The King Who Never Was (2023), directed by Beatrice Borromeo Casiraghi. He is the author of several novels and books for young readers, including Ombre che camminano, La città delle streghe, Alice resta a casa and R - Ribelli, resistenza e rock’n’roll. In 2024, together with Pierdomenico Baccalario, he published Le cose importanti, a collection of stories by Gianluca Vialli.)
FILMOGRAFIA
Amsterdam (cm, 1999). Santa Maradona (2001), A/R Andata + Ritorno (2004), Ti amo troppo per dirtelo (tv, 2010), Passione sinistra (2012), Io che amo solo te (2015), La cena di Natale (2016), Una vita spericolata (2018), Eravamo schiavi (doc, 2019), Il mio anno stranissimo (cm, 2021), La bella stagione (doc, 2022), Sguardi (doc. 2026).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Marco Ponti. STORY: Daniele Segre. MUSIC: Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi di Torino. PRODUCTION: Redibis Film. COPRODUCTION: Sugarland Produzioni, Rai Ragazzi.
CONTACT: Daniele Segre segre@redibisfilm.it
