ITALY
2014 / WORLD PREMIERE
1H34 IN ITALIAN
Synopsis
Davide is different from the other teenagers. Something makes him look like a girl. Davide is fourteen when he runs away from home. His intuition leads him to choose Villa Bellini, a park in Catania, as a refuge. The park is a world in itself, a world of the marginalized, to which the rest of the city turns a blind eye. But one day the past catches up and Davide has to face the most difficult choice, this time alone.
DIRECTOR: Sebastiano Riso
SCREENPLAY: Andrea Cedrola, Stefano Grasso, Sebastiana Riso
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Piero Basso (AIC)
EDITING: Marco Spoletini (AMG)
SOUND: Antonino Dolce
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Melina Ormando, Raffaella Baiani
MUSIC: Michele Braga
CAST:
Davide Capone
Vincenzo Amato
Lucia Sardo Laurier
Pippo Delbono
Micaela Ramazzotti
PRODUCTION
IDEACINEMA SRL
Claudio Saraceni
Jacopo Saraceni
Tel. +39 34 7696 4513
Federico Saraceni
Tel. +39 34 7671 9130
ideacinema@ideacinema.it
DISTRIBUTION
CINECITTA’ LUCE
Luciano Sovena
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l.sovena@cinecittaluce.it
SALES
RAI TRADE
Catia Rossi
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catia.rossi@rai.it
INTERNATIONAL PRESS
CLAUDIATOMASSINI & ASSOCIATES
Claudia Tomassini
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claudia@claudiatomassini.com
CONTACT CANNES
CREATIVE PRODUCER
Andrea Saraceni
Tel. +39 33 5669 7101
andrea.saraceni@gmail.com
Why do you make films?
It was my father who gave me the virus of cinema. As for the desire to direct, it comes from my obsession with details and my need to control everything. So I watched a lot of movies, worked as an assistant to several film and stage directors and went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. It's been eight years since I started making movies. But it’s also thanks to my grandmother, who is now 95 years, that I started. Since my childhood, she always told me that a normal life would not be enough for me and so I would have to study to become a priest or a director.
Where did you get the idea and the desire to turn Davide / Fuxia’s life into a movie?
We were at the airport with Davide when he told me about his life. I found his teenage years had all the strength and drama to make a film that would also use a few anecdotes from my own childhood to denounce the cultural lag that affects a large part of the country.
What kind of actor were you looking for?
I met Davide Capone, the lead actor, after having seen nine thousand faces from Catania, Palermo and Rome. I was looking for a kid who would embody a delicate balance between fragility and determination, between youth, maturity and malice
It is not clear when the story happens exactly, why?
We chose to tell a story that happened during the 1980s in the context of today in order to immortalise it. In Catania, Sicily, it worked particularly well…
Interview by Pamela Pianezza
