9° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Turin Space 1991

BAMBINE DI PALESTINA (UN'ESTATE INSIEME)

GIRLS OF PALESTINE (A SUMMER TOGETHER)

Country: Italy
Year: 1990
Duration: 31'


In August, 1990, thirteen Palestinian girls spent a three week vacation in Piedmont, through the initiative of the group Visitare Luoghi Difficili, which has been involved in exchange projects with Palestinian and Israeli women for the past several years. The video traces the thoughts of the group as they look back on their experience and documents the last days of the vacation spent in the community of Emmaus in Pino d'Asti.

Biography

film director

Adonella Marena

Adonella Marena (Ozegna, Turin, 1949) is a former history teacher. In the 1980's she was involved with the diffusion of women's cinema in the Gruppo Comunicazione Visiva. Since 1989 she has been making short- and medium-length films directly inspired by the reality of her most important experiences in social work. Her favorite themes are: women, immigration, the environment. Her film language tends towards experimentation in mixed genres, between fiction and documentaries. She has participated many times at the Festival Cinema Giovani and in 1994 won the Turin Space Competition, in 1996 in the Italian Competition, she received the Commissione Pari Oportunità prize and a special mention for the Cipputi prize.

FILMOGRAFIA

Il megalite (1989), Bambine di Palestina (1990), Il colore delle differenze (1992), Okoi e semi di zucca (1994), RighibÈ a Torino (1996), Facevo le nugatine (1996), Il cascinotto (1997), La combattente (1998), La fabbrica degli animali (1999), Anime di città (2000), Mobilitebio: quando la terra è in vendita (2000), Tute bianche, un esercito di sognatori (2002).

Cast

& Credits

Regia, sceneggiatura e fotografia: Adonella Marena.
Suono e montaggio: Giorgio Sabbatini.
Production company: gruppo Visitare Luoghi Difficili, Casa della donna di Torino, via Vanchiglia 3, Torino, tel. 8122519.
Italian distribution: Adonella Marena, via XI febbraio 18, Collegno (TO), tel. 783048.
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