ALLA FINE DEL MILLENNIO

9° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Turin Space 1991

ALLA FINE DEL MILLENNIO

AT THE END OF THE MILLENIUM

Country: Italy
Year: 1991
Duration: 25'


Simple yet disquieting images and words tell the real story of Borgo Vittoria, a workingclass district of Turin that has lost its identity with the passing of time. The church of the first-Friday "miracles", the recollections of the old partisans, the local market, and, above all, the need for certainty and urge to communicate play leading roles in the film.

Biography

film director

Claudio Paletto

(Turin, 1954) lives and works in his hometown. Since the 1980s, he has created around eighty works, including short films, documentaries, urban installations, performances, art exhibitions, and museum displays. Many of his films have been featured at international festivals — including the Torino Film Festival, Rotterdam, Bellaria, Filmmaker in Milan, Montbéliard, Lecce, and Casablanca — as well as in various showcases (Berlin, Madrid, Paris, Banja Luka, Genoa, Eindhoven, Tunis, New York) and markets (Clermont-Ferrand, Cannes). Several of his works have received awards (in 1985 and 1993 in the Spazio Aperto section of the Festival Cinema Giovani, in 1990 in Immagini di realtà at Filmmaker, and in 1995 at the European Script Fund in London) and have been broadcast on television (Rai 3 and La7 in Italy, Canal+ in France, Munich TV in Germany). From 2001 to 2013, he curated the independent film series Strane Visioni at the Amantes Cultural Club.

FILMOGRAFIA

Rock contro il nucleare (coll., doc,1983), Ripresi (coregia Mimmo Calopresti, cm, 1987), Bordi taglienti (mm.,1989), Alla fine del millennio (doc,1991) Massimo rispetto (doc,1993), Filo rosso (doc,1996),  Zona 18, Limon – Guatemala (doc, 2000), Gocce di mercurio (cm, 2003), Bambini dItalia (cm, 2004), Walls and Borders (coll., 2009), Piccola italiana (doc, 2010), Neighbours (coregia Maddalena Merlino, doc, 2014)  Acqua passata (cm, 2019), Lo spirito continua (cm, 2019), Imperfetto presente, voci dal primo lockdown (coregia Maddalena Merlino, doc, 2020), Souvenir de Paris (cm, 2025).

Cast

& Credits

Director and screenplay: Claudio Paletto.
Director of photography: Pè Calopresti.
Music: Arrigo Tomasi.
Sound: Carlos Bonaudo.
Editor: Giorgio Mari.
Production company and Italian distribution: West Front Video, via Plana 1, Torino, tel. 889091.
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