original title:
Per un figlio
directed by:
screenplay:
Suranga Deshapriya Katugampala, Aravinda Wanninayake
cinematography:
Channa Deshapriya
editing:
Lizabeth Gelber, Silvia Pellizzari
producer:
production:
Gina Films, Palabras, in collaboration with Palabras, Cineteca di Bologna, in association with Kala Studio (Sri Lanka)
distribution:
country:
Italy
year:
2016
film run:
74'
format:
colour
release date:
30/03/2017
festivals & awards:
Sunita, a middle-aged Sri Lankan woman, lives with her teenage son on the outskirts of a northern Italian city where she works as a caregiver. The relationship between mother and son is fraught with tension and silence. Having grown up in Italy, the boy is a cultural hybrid hismother struggles to understand, as she fights to live in a country to which she does not want to belong.