40° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
OUT OF COMPETITION/FEDELI ALLA LINEA
UNIVERSI CIRCOSCRITTI 2
by Tonino De Bernardi
Country: Italy
Year: 2022
Duration: 125'
A journey through geography and time, city and countryside, human relationships with daughters, grandchildren, friends both male and female. From Casalborgone to Turin and from the Centre Pompidou in Paris to the Stella Polare, Trieste, and the Aosta Valley. Pursuing Christmas, doing theatre, and making movies, with a birthday party in the middle. And then La vita precedente and DONNE, Super8 movies made between 1980 and 1982. Like a ballad, with music that changes: those who are young and alive, and also those we mourn, who are no longer with us.
Biography
film director
Tonino De Bernardi
(Chivasso, Turin, Italy, 1937) was an underground filmmaker from 1967 to 1983. He shot his first “official” feature in 1987: the film Elettra (based on Sophocles’ tragedy), produced by RAI3, involved the participation of non-professional actors from Casalborgone, where he worked as a middle school teacher until 1992. Viaggio a Sodoma (1988) was the co-winner, with Jean-Luc Godard’s film, of the World Wide Video Festival in Den Hag. He participated at the Venice Film Festival in competition with Appassionate (1999), and in Orizzonti with Médée miracle (2007), starring Isabelle Huppert. A restless filmmaker overflowing with projects, he makes at least a film a year. In 2018, together with his wife Mariella, he’s also protagonist of Teresa Villaverde’s O termómetro de Galileu, presented at TFF, in Onde section, just like many others films of De Bernardis'.
FILMOGRAFIA
Dei (1968-1969), Il quadrato (1971-1972), Il rapporto coniugal parentale (1973-1976), L’io e le aggregazioni (1977-1979), Donne (1980-1982), Viaggio a Sodoma (1988), Piccoli orrori (1994), Fiori del destino (1997), Appassionate (1999), Rosatigre (2000), La strada nel bosco (2001), Farelavita (2001), Lei (2002), Le cinéma dans tous ses états (ep. Terra, cm, 2002), Serva e padrona (2003), Latitudini (2003), Marlene de Sousa (2004), Passato presente (2005), Accoltellati (Accoltellatori) (2006), Médée miracle (2007), Pane/Piazza delle camelie (2008), Butterfly - L’attesa (2010), Ed è così. Circa. Più o meno (2011), Casa dolce casa (2012), Hotel de l’Univers (2013), Jour et nuit - Delle donne e degli uomini perduti (2014), Il sogno dell’India - Quarant’anni dopo (2015), Ifigenia in Aulide (2018), Resurrezione (2019), Ou n'etes vous? (mm, 2022), Universi circoscritti 2 (2022).
Declaration
film director
“The movie is the outcome of my relationship with today's world, but above all, with myself and my extended family. A movie of gazes into the camera and conversations between myself and the people I'm filming. Cinema of utopia and faith in the world and in the 'rising sun.' Free and independent cinema but also 'street cinema.' My thanks to one and all. Also to my friends who are dead and who are brought miraculously back to life by cinema. My thanks to the National Cinema Museum of Turin for the English subtitles, to the Torino Film Festival for screening me, to those who fill the cinema. My thanks to the future.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY, CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tonino De Bernardi. STORY: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Sceneggiatura: Tonino De Bernardi. FILM EDITING: Alberto Momo. CAST: Giulietta Debernardi, Caterina, Tommaso, Teresa, Momo, Franco, Ornella, Adelina, Chiapino, Hélène Frappat, Nathan e Francesco Cappennani, Hermine Letonde Gbedo, Rosanna Paradiso, Veronica Debernardi, Joana Preiss, Laura Flores. PRODUCTION: Lontane Province Film.
CONTACT:
Tonino De Bernardi toninodebernardi@libero.it
