original title:
Ombre a mezzogiorno
directed by:
cast:
Francesco Tullio Carnuccio, Maria Rita Bumbaca, Carmela Mosca, Antonio Bumbaca, Elena Messina, Rocco Alì, Domenico Zannino, Francesca Vasile, Rocco “Coscia” Treccosti e Giuseppe Sabatini
cinematography:
editing:
music:
Mujura
producer:
production:
Caucaso Factory, with the support of Fondazione Calabria Film Commission, Film Commission Torino Piemonte
country:
Italy
year:
2023
film run:
78'
format:
colour
status:
Ready (28/11/2022)
In the background of a Turin in a post-industrial transition and a semi-depopulated Calabria, a family of immigrants undertakes a double identity journey to look for the causes that led to their uprooting to the North during the Italian economic boom.
Tullio, a former trade unionist and ex-worker in the Fiat Nord section of Turin, takes on the role of a 'Pavesian Ulysses' who, with his Fiat 126, drives through the Stilaro Valley, his place of origin, in a constant motion of rediscovery. He is accompanied by Rita, his wife, a 'cummara' emancipated in the north, but closely tied to the traditions of her land.
Tullio and Rita meet characters from a forgotten Calabria whose stories intertwine with the places and memories of a distant Turin. Between symbolism, the dream world and the real world, they travel through the shadowy areas cast in time by the great wave of Italian migration, through the dual gaze of those who left without ever leaving.