Alessandro Negrini | Italy, 2023, 99'
Once upon a time there was a village that was meant to disappear forever. Hanging on its miths and stubborn resistance, it still exists. A visionary and poetic journey through time in Erto, the small town in the Italian Dolomites that survived the biggest man-made disaster in time of peace: the Vajont disaster. A film about the vanquished and their indomitable song of resistance, about time, and about a Nature that breathes like a co-protagonist. Filmed over 10 years, Alessandro Negrini's new film unfolds in this time and place where the people of Erto have taken up in a personal story of Resistance. An emotional portrait stopped on the crest of a question: what is the boundary between preserving one's memory and the need to survive pain and find hope again?
Multi award winning film director. Born in Turin, he defines himself a Film Director by mistake. He grew up in Turin in Italy where he was practising the flânerie, the art of strolling, investigating the city by discovering places, peoples and stories. Before becoming a Film Director he worked as school janitor, sales man for an unknown circus, illegal museum guide and deliveryman of yellow pages. He spent much of the late 1990s travelling Europe writing and in 2001 he moved to Ireland. His documentaries and films have garnered a remarkable raft of international awards in festivals around the world. Negrini's most acclaimed work deals with social exclusion, magic realism and resistance and his works combine documentaries, fiction and poetry.
