2016 - 60' - Dialect (Available subtitles: English, Italian, German)
Two brothers, a father with a strong personality, an invisible mother, however constantly present in her absence. A family of farmers in an Alpine valley, where people live thanks to the cultivation of fruit and viticulture, where everybody speaks dialect, often in a rude manner. Gim is nineteen. Since a long time he has discovered his homosexuality. He knows that his situation collides with the values of the world around him. Despite all the uncertainties, Gim decides to face his father’s aggressive aversion and to impose his condition on him, even if aware of how the father will inevitably suffer. His eldest brother, Alex, encourages him not to whine and to be strong enough to accept his homosexuality. However, in spite of his statements, apparently full of certainties, and his aggressive, self-confident behaviour, Alex is not able to hide a deep discomfort, since he feels responsible towards himself and his father for his brother’s vulnerability and for the destructive unhappiness that living together brings about. In such an exasperated context is hard to recognize the love hidden behind. Will they be able to keep on living together, accepting one another for what each of them is?
Cecilia Bozza Wolf was born in 1989 in Trento (Italy). In 2012 she graduated in Art, Music and Drama, at the University of Padua and wrote her degree thesis on Federico Fellini, entitled “Il Dolce Mezzo”. It was published by the foundation Federico Fellini located in Rimini. She is currently doing a Master degree in Drama, Film and New Media at the University of Padua where, from 2011 to 2013, she worked as a camera operator for some local companies and the private network TV200. In the same period she produced two short institutional videos in collaboration with the Municipality of Padua and worked as a cinematographer on a documentary about John Strasberg and his training method for actors. Since 2013 she has been working on “Hard Rock Mountain”, a project for a documentary about young mountain rock bands in northern Italy. In January 2014 she was commenced by ZeLIG, a documentary, television and new media school in Bolzano, where she is expecting to graduate in 2016. Over this period of time she did an internship in the directing department of the film “Mountain” by Amir Naderi.
Alex Grassi was born on the 10th July 1993 in Vipiteno, in South Tyrol, Italy, speaking both native languages (Italian, German). Since 2007 he practices wildlife and nature photography, reaching the final of the Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year in 2010. Worked in small video productions indipendently and partecipated in photoand video contests. In 2014 he joined the Camera Class in the ZeLIG School for Documentary Film and New Media in Bolzano, Italy.
Pierpaolo Filomeno was born in 1990 in Puglia. He’s graduated in Foreign Languages at Università degli Studi di Perugia, with a degree thesis about webdocumentary. He worked for the video production company Crunk Prod in Paris between 2012 and 2013. Currently he lives in Bolzano where he attends the editing class at ZeLIG School for Documentary film. In 2015 he worked as assistant editor of Marie-Hélène Dozo on the film “Wrong Elements” directed by Jonathan Littell, selected at Festival de Cannes 2016.
Country of production: Italy
Original Format: 1080 @ 25
Screening Format: File / Blu-ray Disc/ DVD/DCP
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Running time: 60'
Subtitles available: Italian / English / German
Director: Cecilia Bozza Wolf
Cinematographer: Cecilia Bozza Wolf, Alex Grassi
Editor: Pierpaolo Filomeno
Soundrecordist: Loris Frismon
Sound designer: Riccardo Spagnol
Music: EVIL FATE
ZeLIG is located in Bolzano, Italy, a multilingual city where different cultures live together. The school is a place of exchange for students, teachers and film professionals from all over the world.
At ZeLIG the spoken languages are German, Italian and English. This creative approach to linguistic variety opens the gates to the international markets and to future opportunities.
