40° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
OUT OF COMPETITION/RITRATTI E PAESAGGI
ROSA - IL CANTO DELLE SIRENE
by Isabella Ragonese
Country: Italy
Year: 2022
Duration: 52'
A poetic portrait of the most important Sicilian storyteller, Rosa Balistreri. Her life and works are told through the words and lives of a group of Sicilian women whose experiences resonate with those of Rosa’s. Shot in Palermo and Licata, the two cities of Rosa.
Biography
film director
Isabella Ragonese
Among the most important Italian actresses on the contemporary scene, she has worked with some of the most important authors of Italian cinema: Paolo Virzì, Mario Martone, Marco Tullio Giordana, Pupi Avati, Emanuele Crialese, Roberto Andò, Daniele Luchetti, Sergio Rubini and Valerio Mieli … With La nostra vita by Daniele Luchetti, alongside with Elio Germano, she participated in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010. Rosa - Il canto delle sirene is her directorial debut.
FILMOGRAFIA
Rosa - Il canto delle sirene (mm, doc, 2022).
Declaration
film director
“How do you tell the voice of a woman you've never met, but you have always known in some way? How do you summon ghosts? The ghosts of distant places and people? Perhaps imagining them, evoking them, and losing yourself. I decided to take this film (this desire) with my whole body, like an actress does with a character to play. I started from this suggestion to make a film about Rosa Balistreri.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Isabella Ragonese. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Carlo Alberto Orecchia. FILM EDITING: Michele Castelli. MUSIC: Giuseppe Rizzo. PRODUCERS: Roberto Pisoni, Dino Vannini, Gaia Pasetto. PRODUCTION: Sky Arte, Quoiat Films.
CONTACT:
Quoiat Films - Francesco Zippel francesco@quoiat.com
