SEGRETI E SORELLE

44. Solothurner Filmtage 44es Journées de Soleure 44e Giornate di Soletta 44th Solothurn Film Festival
SEGRETI E SORELLE
SECRETS AND SISTERS
film by FRANCESCO JOST
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SEGRETI E SORELLE
SECRETS AND SISTERS
film by FRANCESCO JOST
with Anita Kravos and Karolina Dafne Porcari
a ventura film production, in coproduction with RTSI-Televisione svizzera
85’, dolby stereo, original version: Italian / English subtitles
official screening: Landhaus, January 20, 17:30
additional screening: Canva Blue, January 22, 21:00
Contacts
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SEGRETI E SORELLE
sinossi
Emilia e Paola tornano nella casa che le ha viste crescere dove nessuno ha
messo più piede dalla morte della madre. Paola se n’era andata molto
giovane e non era tornata nemmeno per il funerale. Emilia invece aveva
assistito la madre fino alla fine, era partita tre giorni dopo, s’era poi sposata
e s’era fatta una vita altrove.
Nella casa le due sorelle si scontrano con i ricordi e subito riaffiorano le
tensioni che nel passato le dividevano. Anche se sotto lo stesso tetto si
ritrovano perciò a vivere il ritorno separatamente.
Emilia lentamente s’estranea, rinchiudendosi in se stessa nascondendosi
nella soffitta dove durante la malattia la madre si rifugiava per stare sola. Un
mondo segreto che Emilia scopre ascoltando le cassette su cui la madre
giorno dopo giorno aveva registrato pensieri e impressioni.
Irrequieta spavalda e con la voglia di divertirsi Paola cerca invece di
rimettersi a fare la vita di un tempo, di ritrovare gli amici di allora, ma
s’accorge che il passato è ormai lontano.
Col trascorrere dei giorni l’incomprensione tra le sorelle cresce tanto più che
Emilia, che aveva avuto l’idea di vendere la casa, pare ora invece
ostacolarne la vendita. Paola è esasperata e non capisce la sorella. Non sa
che Emilia si sta identificando sempre più con la madre. Nella solitudine
della soffitta infatti Emilia passa i migliori momenti della giornata realizzando
il suo sogno di creare abiti, riuscendo così a allontanare le sue angosce.
Paola lo scopre quando delusa arrabbiata decide di lasciare la casa e la
sorella. Solo allora Emilia trova la forza di confessarle la sua terribile paura e
Paola si rende conto che la vendita della casa era soprattutto un silenzioso
grido d’aiuto.
SECRETS AND SISTERS
synopsis
Emilia and Paola return to the house they grew up in, where no one has set foot
since the death of their mother. Paola left home very early and didn’t even attend
the funeral. Emilia assisted her mother till the end and left three days later.
Once home, the two sisters clash immediately over old problems, and the tension
that divided them in the youth rises again to the surface. Even when living in the
same house, they follow different paths.
Emilia slowly shuts herself off from the world, hardly ever leaving the house, and
hiding in the attic where their mother herself used to hide when she wanted to be
left alone. In fact, it is a secret world that Emilia discovers when she begins
listening to the tapes on which her mother recorded her thoughts and feelings.
Restless, bold and looking for fun, Paola tries to rejoin to her old life and friends,
but she discovers that those years now lie in the distant past.
As the days pass, their disagreements intensify, especially because Emilia, who
had the idea to sell the house, now seems to have changed her mind. Paola is
vexed and no longer understands her sister. She doesn’t know that Emilia is
increasingly identifying with their mother. Alone in the attic, she starts sewing again,
something she’d always dreamt of doing, thus finding peace in her creative
solitude.
Angry and disappointed, Paola finally decides to leave town, but she discovers
Emilia’s hideaway just before her departure. Emilia finally breaks down and
confesses the great fear to Paola, who only then understands that the sale of the
house was only a silent cry for help.
SEGRETI E SORELLE
note del regista
sui temi del film
SEGRETI E SORELLE è una storia che mi ha subito interessato per i temi che
tratta, universali, che hanno tutti un’ eco in ognuno di noi.
C’è il tema del ritorno perché Emilia e Paola tornano nel luogo da cui erano partite;
c’è il rapporto stretto che le unisce, fatto di tensioni ma anche di una leggerezza
che è la spia di una loro creatività messa a tacere o tenuta in sordina. Svuotando la
casa materna non possono evitare i ricordi legati alla madre, morta da anni e di cui
non si vede nemmeno una fotografia; e tramite la madre c’è il confronto con la
paura e la morte.
Il film tocca anche il tema dell’impossibilità di comunicare a chi ci sta vicino i
sentimenti più profondi e più individuali. Paola infatti fino alla fine non intuirà che la
vendita della casa è solo un pretesto, che Emilia le sta chiedendo d’esserle vicina
ma non riesce a dirglielo, a dirle che ha paura.
sui luoghi
Il film è girato a Chiasso, ma in una Chiasso che potrebbe essere ovunque proprio
perché la storia delle sorelle potrebbe capitare ovunque.
Ho voluto che la casa materna che le due sorelle devono svuotare stesse davanti
alla ferrovia. Una casa quindi su un’area in movimento, di cambiamenti, di treni che
passano, di un continuo andare e venire, partire tornare, attraversare. Le sorelle,
come facevano da bambine, ancora oggi per passare da una parte all’altra della
città traversano l’area dei binari.
All’interno, invece, la casa è impregnata di ricordi. Ha una storia, una storia di
famiglia.
le attrici
Il ruolo di Emilia è interpretato da Anita Kravos, un’attrice Italiana formata alla
scuola di recitazione di Mosca.
Karolina Dafne Porcari, italiana che vive e lavora in Polonia dopo aver frequentato
la scuola di recitazione di Cracovia, è invece Paola.
Fin dall’inizio ho pensato a loro come le sorelle anche per il loro modo di affrontare
e approfondire il personaggio che devono interpretare e al modo molto naturale di
recitare. Qualità che vengono probabilmente dalla loro formazione nell’Europa
dell’Est e che io cerco negli attori.
SECRETS AND SISTERS
director’s note
on the film’s themes
Secrets and Sisters interested me immediately because of the themes the story
explores, all universal, all echoing in each of us.
Apparent is the theme of returning, since both Emilia and Paola come back to the
town in which they grew up. Then, there is the close relationship between the two
sisters that clearly addresses the tensions but also depicts the lightheartedness
that hint at a sort of subdued creativity. When emptying their mother’s house,
Emilia and Paola cannot avoid recalling their dead mother, a picture of whom we
never see. Through the mother, of course, there is the theme of fear and death.
Another theme included in the film is the difficulty in communicating our deeper
feelings. In fact, only at the end does Paola understand that the sale of the house
was only an excuse, and that Emilia is simply asking her to be next to her;
however, she cannot say that she is terribly scared.
on the film’s locations
The film is shot in Chiasso, but in such a way that Chiasso could be somewhere
else, since the story of the two sisters clearly could happen anywhere.
I wanted the mother’s house to be next the railroad tracks, such that it would
represent a home in an area in constant motion, with trains running one after the
other, arriving and departing, of changes, and cutting through.
Even today, in order for the two sisters to reach the other part of town, they simply
walk through the railroad tracks as they did when they were children.
In contrast, instead of being in motion, the house is full of memories. It is a house
that contains the family’s history; its story.
on the actresses
Emilia is played by Anita Kravos, an Italian actress who studied acting at the
famous GITIS in Moscow.
Karolina Dafne Porcari, an Italian living in Poland where she studied acting in
Crakovia, plays Paola.
I had these actresses in mind from the beginning because both have that East
European way of approaching a role, and acting it very naturally. I prefer that
quality in actors.
SEGRETI E SORELLE
85’ dolby stereo, original version Italian
Switzerland / © ventura film 2009
production
ventura film
co-production
RTSI-Televisione svizzera
director
Francesco Jost
original idea
screenplay
Isabella and Daniela Cianciarulo
Isabella and Daniela Cianciarulo
Francesco Jost, Elda Guidinetti
cinematography
Vladan Radovic
sound
Brigitta Pasquadibisceglie
editing
Milenia Fiedler
music
Patricio Morales
sound design / mix
Antonio D’Ambrosio
art director
Fabrizio Nicora
costumes
Laura Corti
produced by
Elda Guidinetti, Andres Pfaeffli
cast
Anita Kravos
Karolina Dafne Porcari
Gigio Alberti
Stefano Fiorentino
Cecilia Broggini
BIO-FILMOGRAPHY
FRANCESCO JOST
Born in Locarno (Switzerland) 1962.
Film director, film editor, painter, graphic and video artist.
1979-1984
CSIA, Lugano: diploma in graphic art (with Max Huber and Bruno Monguzzi)
1984-91
As a freelance graphic artist.
1992-2001
In the USA worlks as a freelance graphic artist and with video: corporate videos and work as
technician on various documentaries and for RAI International.
2002
Back in Switzerland. Creation of promotional material and Internet web site for ventura film..
2nd camera assistant on the TV movie LA DIGA (THE DAM) by Fulvio Bernasconi.
2003
IL RE È NUDO, 8’, 35mm
with Stefano Fiorentino, Elisabetta Ferrari, Antonella Morassutti
Locarno International Film Festival 2004, Leopards of tomorrow
2005
BRUNO MONGUZZI,12’, a portrait for “DESIGNsuisse”
2006
JOLIDO, 26’, Digital Betacam
with Joe Lars Prinz, Anita Kravos, Emanuele De Matteis, Daniele Favilli, Roberto Magnani,
Margherita Schoch, Greta Zamparini, David Zurbuchen Francesca Radaelli, Ronaldo Bushi, Nicola
Dattoli, Susanna Giani.
Locarno International Film Festival 2006, Leopards of tomorrow / Trieste Film Festival / MedFilm
Festival Rome / International Fest of Cinema and Technology, Los Angeles / Nomination: Swiss
Film Prize (best short)
Location scouting, set assistant and graphic designer for the feature film FUORI DALLE CORDE
(OUT OF BOUNDS) by Fulvio Bernasconi.
2007
COME TE LA PASSI IN FAMIGLIA, documentary, 52’, Digital Betacam
2008-2009
SEGRETI E SORELLE, 85’, original version Italian, En. subtitles
with Anita Kravos, Karolina Dafne Porcari, Gigio Alberti, Stefano Fiorentino, Cecilia Broggini.
www.venturafilm.ch
features
1989
MEGAVILLE by Peter Lehner, fiction
Co produced with DRS and Heritage Inc. Los Angeles
1993
TERRA BRUCIATA by Andres Pfaeffli,
Co produced with RTSI, Teleclub, ZDF-ARTE, Dream Film
1996
LA SICILIA by Luc Pien,
Co produced with Kladaradatsch! Films, RTBF, Canal+, SSR and Eurimages
IRRLICHTER by Christoph Kühn
Co produced with SSR/ZDF/ORF and the support of Eurimages
Awards: Prix du public Bludenz - Prix Suisa Locarno
1997
PETITS DESORDRES AMOUREUX by Olivier Péray
Co produced with Kien’ Productions, Igeldo, Canal + and Eurimages
Awards: Prix Pierrot Festival Berlin - César for Bruno Putzulu (meilleur éspoir
masculin)
2000
NO QUARTO DA VANDA by Pedro Costa
Co produced with RTP, ZDF, RTSI
Awards: Locarno IFF: Prix du jury des jeunes, Special Mention Official Jury, Mention
Jury of Cinéclubs - Cinéma du Réel Paris: Prix de la Bibliothèque - Yamagata Int.
Documentary Festival: FIPRESCI Prize - Cannes Film Festival 2002: France Culture
Award, Foreign Cineaste of the Year - Valencia FF: best cinematography / Festivals:
Torino FF - Buenos Aires Festival of Independent Cinema - Copenhagen Int.
Documentary FF
L’ANGE DE L’EPAULE DROITE by Djamshed Usmonov
Co produced with Fabrica Cinema, ArtCam, Asht Village, RTSI, Rai Cinema
Awards: London Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize - Tokio Film Festival: Jury Prize Angers Film Festival: Jury Prize - Singapore Film Festival: best director - Bratislava
Film Festival: best film, best actor & Ecumenical Prize - Tromsö Film Festival:
Aurora award and Don Quixote award - Nika award 2004 - Wiesbaden: Special
Mention / Festivals: Séléction Officielle Festival de Cannes 2002, Un certain regard
2003
LA FELICITÀ NON COSTA NIENTE by Mimmo Calopresti
Co produced with Bianca Film, Europa Corp., Eurimages
Awards: Nominations David di Donatello: Francesca Neri best supporting actress,
Arnaldo Catinari best cinematography - Nominations Nastri d’argento: Avion Travel
best song,
Laura Betti best supporting actress - Madrid imagen: best
cinematography / Festivals: San Francisco IFF - Habana FF - Annecy Cinema
Italien - Palm Springs IFF - Festival du Film Italien de Villerupt
LA DIGA tv movie by Fulvio Bernasconi
Co produced with RTSI and ARTE
Festivals: Festival Tout Ecran Geneva, international competition - Bruxelles Film
Festival - Solothurn Film Festival
2004
LOS MUERTOS by Lisandro Alonso
Co produced with 4L, Fortuna Films, Slot Machine / ARTE, RTSI
Awards: Torino Film Festival: best film - Cinédécouvertes (Belgique): Golden Age
Award - Viennale 2004: Standard Reader’s Prize & FIPRESCI Prize - Karlovy Vary
International Film Festival: Czech Television Award for the Forum of Independents’
Best Film - International Yerevan Film Festival: Jury special Prize - International
Film Festival Santiago de Chile: best film - Festival Paysages de Cinéastes de
Chatenay Malabry: Special Jury Prize & best photography / Festivals: Quinzaine
des Réalisateurs Cannes - Edinburgh IFF - Sarajevo IFF - Toronto IFF - Vancouver
IFF - Pusan IFF - Sao Paulo IFF - Rotterdam IFF - Miami IFF - Guadalajara IFF San Francisco IFF - Hong Kong IFF - Jerusalem IFF - Melbourne IFF
2006
LA TRADUCTRICE by Elena Hazanov
Co produced with TSR and Filmocom
Festivals: Locarno IFF, Cineastes du present - München IFF - Edinburgh IFF Solothurn FF - Festival du Film Francophone de Vienne - Rassegna del Nuovo
Cinema Europeo di Genova - Arras IFF
JUVENTUDE EN MARCHA by Pedro Costa
Co produced with Contracosta, Unlimited, ARTE, RTP, RTSI
Awards: Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award: Independent/Experimental
Film&Video award / Festivals: Cannes Film Festival (competition) - Torino FF Toronto IFF - Belgrade IFF - San Francisco IFF - Rotterdam IFF - New York FFAdelaide FF - Ljubljana Documentary FF - London FF - Melbourne IFF - Sao Paulo
IFF
2007
FUORI DALLE CORDE by Fulvio Bernasconi
Co produced with ITC Movie, Bianca Film, Rai Cinema, RTSI.
Developed with EKRAN.
Awards: Locarno Film Festival (competition): Silver Leopard (ex aequo) to Michele
Venitucci for Best Actor - Brooklyn International Film Festival: best cinematography
- Santa Marinella Film Festival: best film - Nomination: Swiss Film Prize for best
feature film / Festivals: Trieste FF - Festival del Cinema Europeo di Lecce - Festroia
IFF (competition) - Shanghai IFF - Moscow IFF - MedFilm Festival Rome - Osaka
European FF - Tallin Black Nights FF - Arras IFF - Annonay IFF (competition)
NESSUNA QUALITÀ AGLI EROI by Paolo Franchi
Co produced with ITC Movie, Bianca Film, RTSI
Awards: Globi d’oro 2008: best director / Festivals: Mostra Internazionale del
Cinema di Venezia (competition) - Pusan IFF - Festival du Film Italien de Villerupt
(competition) - Festival International du Film d’Amour de Mons (competition)
2009
SECRETS AND SISTERS by Francesco Jost
Co produced with RTSI-Televisione svizzera
Festivals: Solothurn Film Festival
shorts
1992
LA ready-made SPOSA CONTENTA by Elda Guidinetti
Co produced with RTSI, Festival Locarno Pardi di domain
1995
TAXI SERVICE by Elie Khalifé and Alexandre Monnier
Co produced with TSR, ACCT, LBC
Awards: Festival du Film Arabe, Paris: best short - Locarno IFF: Prix Kodak, Montpellier FF: best short - Swiss quality award - Nomination Prix du cinéma Suisse
1997
MERCI NATEX by Elie Khalifé and Alexandre Monnier
Co produced with TSR & Canal+
Awards: London Film Festival: best short
2004
IL RE È NUDO by Francesco Jost
Co produced with RTSI
Festivals: Locarno International Film Festival (Leopards of Tomorrow
competition)
2006
JOLIDO by Francesco Jost
coproduced with RTSI
Festivals: Locarno IFF - Trieste FF - MedFilm Festival Rome - International Fest of
Cinema and Technology, Los Angeles - Nomination: Swiss Film Prize (best short)
documentaries
1988
MARIO BOTTA - SENZA LUCE - NESSUNO SPAZIO by Andres Pfaeffli
Co produced with SWF; in the MOMA catalogue
1990
LES CARNETS DE SANDOR by Hugues Ryffel
Co produced with RTSI - Swiss quality award
1991
POINT DE VUE by Bernhard Lehner & Andres Pfaeffli
Co produced with RTSI - Swiss quality award
1992
SOPHIE TAEUBER-ARP by Christoph Kühn
Co produced with DRS
Awards: Prix de la ville de Zurich - Swiss quality award - Visions du Réel Nyon:
Special Mention - Prix Luciano Emmer Paris - Merit winner San Francisco
1993
DIE SYMMETRIE DER ORDNUNG, theme evening for ARTE
TRIUMPH DER LEERE by Silvano Agosti, co produced with ARTE
IMAGINAERE ARCHITEKTUR by Hartmut Bitomsky, co produced with ARTE
ARCHITETTURA RIMOSSA by Elda Guidinetti & Andres Pfaeffli, co produced with
ARTE and RTSI
1994
ALBERTO SARTORIS LA MEMORIA DI UN SECOLO by Elda Guidinetti &
Andres Pfaeffli
Co produced with ARTE and RTSI
1995
PALAZZI DEI SOGNI by Elda Guidinetti & Andres Pfaeffli, co produced with ARTE
1996
DIE FLUCHT OHNE ENDE DES JOSEPH ROTH by Andres Pfaeffli & Elda
Guidinetti, co produced with ARTE and RTSI
1998
200 anni d’acqua by Fulvio Bernasconi, co produced with RTSI
ANNA FELDER - TRA DOVE PIOVE E NON PIOVE, by Andres Pfaeffli & Elda
Guidinetti, documentary for SSR
SCHLARAFFENLAND, a theme evening for ARTE
EINE EUROPÄISCHE NOTE by Brigitte Kramer & Jörg Jeshel
Co produced with ARTE and RTSI
LA CUCCAGNA NAPOLETANA by Andres Pfaeffli & Elda Guidinetti
Co produced with ARTE and RTSI
1999
TRÜMPI by Iwan Schumacher
Co produced with DRS, 3 SAT, ORF
ROM TOUR by Silvio Soldini, idea by Antonio Tabucchi
Co produced with RTSI, Telepiù and La sept/ARTE
Awards: Festival dei Popoli Florence: Prix Planète
2000
ADDIO LUGANO BELLA by Francesca Solari
Co produced with ZDF
Nomination: Prix du cinéma Suisse / Festivals: Locarno IFF, Cinéastes du présent Rome FF - Trieste FF - Festival International de Films de Femmes de Creteil Internationales Documentarfilm Festival München - Les Ecrans Documentaires,
Paris - 23esimo Incontro Internazionale di Film di Donne, Florence
L’OSPEDALE by Fulvio Bernasconi
Co produced with RTSI
2001
PAUL SACHER, portrait du mécène en musicien by Edna Politi
Co produced with SSR, ARTE, Festival Locarno
SANT’EGIDIO by Nico Di Biase,
Co produced with ADR Productions, SSR, ARTE
2002
TUTTE TESSINERLI by Andres Pfaeffli and Elda Guidinetti
Co produced with RTSI
SEPTEMBERWIND / VENTO DI SETTEMBRE by Alexander J. Seiler
Co produced with RTSI
Festivals: Visions du Réel, Nyon (competition)
STORIE DI VOLONTARIA AMICIZIA by Misha Györig
in coproduction with RTSI
2003
TRISTANO E TABUCCHI by Veronica Noseda e Marcello Togni
with Antonio Tabacchi
co produced with RTSI
Awards: Prix Unesco Paris / Festivals: Locarno International Film Festival,
Cinéastes du présent
SOGNO DI TANGO by Jesse Allaoua
Co produced with RTSI
2005
POWERFUL MEN by Fulvio Bernasconi
Co produced with RTSI
Festivals: Locarno International Film Festival - Solothurn Film Festival - Nomination
Prix Europa
DIE GROSSE STILLE (INTO GREAT SILENCE) by Philip Groening
Co produced with Philip Gröning Filmproduktion, BR, ARTE/ZDF, SSR/RTSI
Awards: Sundance Film Festival: Special Jury Prize - Bayerischer Filmpreis 2005:
Best documentary film - German Critics Award - Nomination Deutscher Filmpreis Prix Arte best european documentary 2006 - Deutscher Kamerapreis - Premio
Ennio Flaiano: best camera & best film - German Films: Film of the year - Sao Paulo
IFF: Jury Prize / Festivals: Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Venezia, Orizzonti Toronto IFF - Leipzig Documentary FF - Hong Kong IFF - New directors/New Films,
New York - San Francisco IFF
2006
VOLEVO SOLO VIVERE by Mimmo Calopresti
Co produced with Shoah Foundation, Rai Cinema, Gagè ,Wildsmedia, RTSI
Festivals: Cannes Film Festival, hors competition - Jerusalem IFF - Festival des Films
du Monde de Montreal - Annecy Cinema Italien - Palm Springs IFF - Göteborg FF
2007
SALATA BALADI by Nadia Kamel
Co produced with Snooze Productions, Les Films d’Ici, Citizen Production, RTSI
Awards: San Francisco Arab Film Festival: best documentary - Mumbai Intarnational
Film Festival: best long documentary & FIPRESCI award - National Film Festival,
Egypt: Certificate of Merit / Festivals: Locarno IFF - Middle East IFF Abu Dhabi Paris Grand Ecran - Cinema East Film Fest, New York - IDFA Amsterdam Solothurn FF - Women FF Alexandria - Ljubljana Documentary FF - Festival
Docatunis, Tunisia - Internationales Dokumentarfilm Festival München - Beirut
Docudays - DocLisboa
DUTTI DER RIESE by Martin Witz
Co produced with RTSI, Teleclub
Awards: Filmprize City of Zurich - Nomination Prix Walo / Festivals: Locarno Film
Festival - Deutsches Historisches Museum, Kinematographie heute: Schweiz
VOGLIAMO ANCHE LE ROSE by Alina Marazzi
Co produced with Mir Cinematografica, Rai Cinema, RTSI
Awards: Nomination David di Donatello: best documentary / Festivals: Locarno IFF,
Piazza Grande - London FF - IDFA Amsterdam - Torino FF - Filmaker FF Milano Seattle IFF - Feminale Women’s FF
2008
COME TE LA PASSI IN FAMIGLIA by Francesco Jost, co produced with RTSI