Sufficiente

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Sufficiente

original title:

Sufficiente

screenplay:

Rosario Esposito La Rossa, from his book "Fiori d’agave"

cinematography:

8mm

producer:

production:

Palabras, La Scugnizzeria, with the support of Cassa di Sovvenzioni e Risparmio-Banca d’Italia, in collaboration with Collettivo Mina

country:

Italy

year:

2019

film run:

10'

format:

colour

status:

Ready (23/07/2019)

In a middle school on the northern outskirts of Naples, a teenager roughly fifteen years old appears before the examiners to earn his diploma. The professors are as skeptical as can be expected about a student who has repeated the year more than once, but the boy isn't intimidated and delivers his oral report about history, his own personal history, marred by a tragedy, and then moves on to discuss the human body and the sculpture The Veiled Christ. The teachers hear him out in silence; a passing grade is all he asks for.