Country: Italy
Year: 2026
Duration: 80'
At CasaOz in Turin, a welcoming space for people affected by illness, built around listening, human connection and care, a group of individuals (Alessandro Baricco, Lorenzo Jovanotti, Don Luigi Ciotti, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Luciana Littizzetto, Sara Gama, Giorgio Oscar Farinetti and Gabriele Vacis) set aside their public roles to reveal themselves in their most authentic and human dimension. To care means building bonds, inhabiting time and reclaiming the right to beauty.
Biography
film director
Marco Ponti
(Avigliana, Turin, 1967), a degree in humanities from the University of Turin, attended the screenwriting course at the Holden School between 1995 and1996, and the Rai course for screenwriters in 1997. He debuted as a screenwriter with Benvenuto a San Salvario by Enrico Verra (1999), which won a European Film Award, and as a director with the short Amsterdam (1999). In 2001, he found success with his first feature film, Santa Maradona, which was followed by A/R Andata + Ritorno (Round Trip, 2004), Passione sinistra (A Liberal Passion, 2012), Io che amo solo te (2015), La cena di Natale (2016), and Una vita spericolata (Reckless, 2018). He has worked for TV, directing the show Novecento by Alessandro Baricco (2004) and shooting Ti amo troppo per dirtelo (Don't Say You Love Me!, 2010). Since 1997, he has been collaborating with the Holden School in Turin and since 2018 with the Giffoni Film Festival. He has directed musical videos (Vasco Rossi, Jovanotti, Elisa, Emma), TV commercials, and documentaries (Eravamo schiavi, 2019). In 2019, he published his first novel: Ombre che camminano. In 2018, he and Michele Straniero founded the production company Sugarland Srl.
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).
Declaration
film director
“In a world where illness often isolates, defines, and cages, Casa Oz offers another path: that of care as everyday life. Care that is not a struggle, but attention. Not resistance, but coexistence. Care made of relationships, sport, education, play, and art. A normality experienced not as an illusion, but as the deep root of everyone's identity. Sguardi was born from this philosophy and expands it, looking into the faces and lives of extraordinary yet deeply human people for new ways of looking at fragility, crisis, and the future”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Marco Ponti. STORY: Enrica Baricco. SCREENPLAY: Marco Ponti, Federica Furino. CAST: Alessandro Baricco, Lorenzo Jovanotti, Michele De Lucchi, Don Luigi Ciotti, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Luciana Littizzetto, Sara Gama, Giorgio Vacchiano, Oscar Farinetti, Gabriele Vacis, Espérance Hakuzwimana, Marco Ponti, Enrica Baricco. PRODUCTION: Fondazione Oz, Lume Produzioni. COPRODUCTION: Rai Cinema. CONTACT: Lume Prod. - info@lumeprod.it
