Festival 2021
The theme of the 2021 feStivale was the art of Resilience. Often resilience comes from holding hands while we rise and derive our individual sense of accomplishment as we help each other overcome our adversity.
Enjoy a few photos of our 2021 feSta and trailers of screened movies.
Laci | The Ties
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He is charming, ironic, nostalgic. She is full of life, smart, passionate, she lives in the moment. When they meet, they fall in love instantly. Later on, as they grew up next to each other, their personalities have evolved: while He is getting lighthearted, She is the one starting to feel melancholic. Thus, as the love story will be told from two different perspectives, his and hers, reflecting the moods and their inner changes, we will be confronted to the fact that there might be as many love stories as there are points of view.
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Year: 2020
Director: Daniele Luchetti
Screenplay: Domenico Starnone, Francesco Piccolo, Daniele Luchetti, based on the novel by Domenico Starnone
Editing: Daniele Luchetti, Ael Dallier Vega
Cinematography: Ivan Casalgrandi
Cast: Alba Rohrwacher, Luigi Lo Cascio, Laura Morante, Silvio Orlando, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Adriano Giannini, Linda Caridi, Francesca De Sapio
Production: Ibc Movie, Rai Cinema
World Sales: mk2 Films
Rione Sanità – La certezza dei sogni | Rione Sanità – The Certainty of Dreams
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Father Antonio Loffredo is the key advocate of the rebirth of Rione Sanità, in Naples. From the church of Santa Maria della Sanità the stories of all the protagonists of the film unfold, with developments, plots, hopes and difficulties overcome and to be overcome. Young men and women who have taken control of their destinies pursue a dream they have given shaped and given certainty to: running and guiding tours at the Catacombs, schools of theater, music, sculpture and a new sports center. All this, which only fifteen years ago seemed impossible, has become reality. As Father Antonio Loffredo likes to repeat: “At Rione Sanità, humanism either becomes humanity, or it dies.”
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Year: 2020
Director: Massimo Ferrari
Screenplay: Massimo Ferrari, Conchita Sannino
Cinematography: Blasco Giurato
Music: Enzo Foniciello
Cast: Don Antonio Loffredo, Luciana Giaccio, Giuseppe Pirozzi, Giuseppe D'Ambrosio, Michele Zacarola, Mariarca Cuomo, Salvatore Grimaldi, Jago, Sylvain Bellenger, Giusiana Leccia, Conchita Sannino, Ernesto Albanese, Giovanni D'Ambrosio, Valeria Ciao, Fabrizio Monsellato, Antonio Maturo
Production: Sky Arte, Big Sur, Mad Entertainment
World Sales: Mad Entertainment
Il traditore | The Traitor
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The Traitor tells the true story of Tommaso Buscetta, the man who brought down the Cosa Nostra. In the early 1980s, an all-out war rages between Sicilian mafia bosses over the heroin trade. Tommaso Buscetta, a “made man,” flees to hide out in Brazil. Back home, scores are being settled and Buscetta watches from afar as his sons and brother are killed in Palermo, knowing he may be next. Arrested and extradited to Italy by the Brazilian police, Buscetta makes a decision that will change everything for the Mafia: He decides to meet with Judge Giovanni Falcone and betray the eternal vow he made to the Cosa Nostra.
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Year: 2019
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Screenplay: Marco Bellocchio, Ludovica Rampoldi, Valia Santella, Francesco Piccolo
Editing: Francesca Calvelli
Cinematography: Vladan Radovic
Music: Nicola Piovani
Cast: Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Fernanda Candido, Fabrizio Ferracane, Luigi Lo Cascio, Fausto Russo Alesi, Nicola Calì, Giovanni Calcagno, Bruno Cariello, Vincenzo Pirrotta, Goffredo Maria Bruno, Alessio Praticò, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Gabriele Cicirello
Production: IBC Movie, Kavac, Rai Cinema, Ad Vitam, Match Factory Productions, Gullane, Arte
World Sales: Sony Picture Classics
Rosa pietra stella | Rose Stone Star
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Italian cinema still brings us beautiful, contemporary Neorealist films. Rosa Pietra Stella is the lively fiction feature debut from documentary director Marcello Sannino. The protagonist is 30-year-old Carmela (the title of the film refers to a line from a song with the same title: “Rose, rock, star”), who scrapes together a living doing a range of odd jobs. Her situation becomes more complicated when a deal to provide visas to illegal migrants through a lawyer goes badly wrong, leading to her being evicted from her home along with her mother and her eleven-year-old daughter, Maria. The story portrays everyday life and survival in Portici, the old, multicultural part of Naples where Sannino himself grew up. With a superb eye for local details and a great cast, he tells a nuanced, unsentimental, empathetic tale.
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Year: 2019
Director: Marcello Sannino
Screenplay: Marcello Sannino, Giorgio Caruso, Guido Lombardi
Editing: Giogiò Franchini
Cinematography: Alessandro Abate
Music: Riccardo Veno
Cast: Ivana Lotito, Ludovica Nasti, Fabrizio Rongione, Imma Piro, Valentina Curatoli, Francesca Romana Bergamo, Anna Redi, Gigi Savoia, Pietro Juliano, David Power, Rosy Franzese
Production: Parallelo 41, Bronx Film, PFA Films, Rai Cinema
World Sales: Rai Com
Santiago, Italia
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In the early seventies, the world was watching as Chile democratically elected Socialist leader Salvador Allende. His political ideals and aspirations—including providing education for all children and distributing land to the nation’s workers—terrified the country’s right wing, as well as the U.S., who helped orchestrate a military coup that replaced him with dictator Augusto Pinochet. This tragic history has been well documented, but Italian director Nanni Moretti (Caro Diario, The Son’s Room) adds an angle many viewers may not know about: the efforts of the Italian Embassy at the time to save and relocate citizens targeted by the fascist regime. Told through the testimonies of those who were there, Santiago, Italia is a chilling depiction of living under junta rule and an ultimately inspiring expression of hope amidst dire circumstances.
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Year: 2018
Director: Nanni Moretti
Screenplay: Nanni Moretti
Editing: Clelio Benevento
Cinematography: Maura Morales Bergmann
Production: Sacher Film, Le Pacte, Storyboard Media, Rai Cinema
World Sales: DistriB Films
Molecole | Molecules
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Between February and April 2020, director Andrea Segre got stuck in Venice during the lockdown: Venice, the hometown of his father and just partially his own. At the time, he was working on two theatre and movie projects about threats to the city: tourism and high water. During the filming, the virus froze and emptied out the city before his eyes and gave back the town to its own nature, history, and somehow, also to Andrea. He collected visual notes and stories and spent time in his family home, where he got the chance to dig into the childhood memories that dragged him deeper down than he could have ever imagined. The personal archives on super8 of Ulderico, father of the director, alternate with encounters with Venice residents, both telling the relationship between the city, and the waters and at the same time living the unexpected void that took over Venice and a big part of the world. The images are held together by the director’s out-of-field voice, the music by Teho Teardo and an atmosphere of expectation and amazement which pervades all the visual and existential material of this strange journey, unreal and unrealizable but remaining in the heart of a very real and historical event which has marked and will mark the world forever.
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Year: 2020
Director: Andrea Segre
Screenplay: Andrea Segre
Editing: Chiara Russo
Cinematography: Matteo Calore, Andrea Segre
Music: Teho Teardo
Cast: Ulderico Segre, Giuliano Segre, Uberto Segre, Anna Pagliero, Mauro Stoppa, Boris Borella, Luigi Divari, Elena Almansi, Maurizio Calligaro, Giulia Tagliapietra, Alberto Spizzamiglio, Anna Campagnari, Marino Almansi, Patrizia Zanella, Alexandra Ioana-Drobota, Marta Bortolozzo, Samanta Coviç, Dafni Segre, Archontoula Skourtanioti
Production: ZaLab, Rai Cinema, Vulcano, Istituto Luce Cinecittà
World Sales: Deckert Distribution
Guida romantica a posti perduti | Romantic Guide to Lost Places
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Romantic Guide to Lost Places is an unusual road movie that ranges across Europe looking for forgotten places, during which two strangers, both trapped in lives of deceit, come to terms with their own pasts. Benno is over fifty, English, and drinks like a fish; Allegra is twenty years younger, a travel blogger with lots of imagination. They both live off their lies and have no intention of stopping now. Next-door neighbors, they had never met until the day Benno wound up on the wrong floor, and nothing would ever be the same. Serendipity leads this odd couple on a journey towards lost or forgotten places, where their mutual support will help fuel their self-discovery.
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Year: 2020
Director: Giorgia Farina
Screenplay: Giorgia Farina, Carlo Salsa
Editing: Paola Freddi
Cinematography: Timo Salminen
Music: Emanuele De Raymondi
Cast: Jasmine Trinca, Clive Owen, Irène Jacob, Andrea Carpenzano, Teco Celio, Edoardo Gabbriellini
Production: Oplon Film, Rai Cinema
World Sales: Rai Com