Country: Italy
Year: 2023
Duration: 75'
It's summertime, warm sunlight shines on Teresa as she tries to escape from it under a large magnolia tree. Teresa is an obstetrician, she is seventy years old, her white hair is gathered up in a braid, and her smile is welcoming. She is with about ten women .They are in a circle, all are pregnant but not all of them are at the same stage of their pregnancy. The women introduce each other and tell something about themselves. With Teresa, they reflect on the moment of passage they are experiencing. Many emotions, doubts, and fears emerge from their stories.
Biography
film director
Claudia Brignone
(Naples, 1985), graduated in communication science and began studying directing at Act Multimedia of Rome, where she made the short Marcello (2009). She later attended workshops and residences with figures such as Pietro Marcello, Sara Fgaier, Marco Pasquini, and Tarek Ben Abdallah. In 2014, she made her first feature-length documentary, La malattia del desiderio, which received the Audience Award at the SalinaDocFest. That same year, she participated in the project Filmap - Atelier di cinema del reale at Ponticelli, making the short L’altalena. She then collaborated in the shooting and editing of the movie Aperti al pubblico (Open to the Public, 2021) by Silvia Bellotti, Audience Award at the Festival dei Popoli. In 2019, she presented her second feature film, La villa., in the section Alice nella Città of the Rome Film Fest. She also works as a director's assistant and casting assistant for movies, documentaries, and educational activities. She was a tutor at the Procida Film Atelier directed by Leonardo di Costanzo, which led to the collective movie Procida (2023), presented at the Locarno Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Marcello (doc, cm, 2009), Lavori in corso (doc, 2009), Wanda e Virginia (doc, 2010), L'altalena (doc, cm, 2015), La malattia del desiderio (doc, 2014), La villa (doc, 2019), Tempo d’attesa (doc, 2023).
Declaration
film director
“When I found out I was pregnant, it seemed as though everybody had an opinion or a truth to share about the right things to do. I felt I was being sent down a trajectory that others had already decided for me, the result of what seemed to be customs and standardized habits, choices made by the other women in my family. I asked myself if there might be another, more personal way to deal with the total upheaval I was experiencing. This movie was born from this 'search' of mine.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY, CINEMATOGRAPHY: Claudia Brignone. EDITING: Lea Dicursi. ORIGINAL MUSIC: Valerio C. Faggioni, Roberta D'Angelo. SUONO: Marco Saitta. PRODUCER: Raffaella Pontarelli. PRODUCTION: Amarena Film with Rai Cinema. With the support of FCRC and Regione Campania; MFN-Milano Film Network. With the contribution of Associazione Premio Greencare and Euphorbia-Cultura del Paesaggio.
CONTACT: Amarena Film (Raffaella Pontarelli) raffaella@amarenafilm.it
