We are Alitalia - History of a country that no longer knows how to fly (winner of the "Cinema and Work" special prize of the Nastri d'Argento) is an independent documentary film, the third chapter of a set of three cinematographic works called Trilogy of work: All down in the air - The paper plane of 2009, directed by Francesco Cordio (on the Alitalia dispute of 2008) and Suicide Italy - Stories of extreme dignity, directed by Filippo Soldi of 2012 (on the suicides of entrepreneurs caused by the 2012 crisis), winner of the Golden Globe for best documentary in 2013.

Director's note

«When Alessandro offered me a documentary on Alitalia, I think I huffed: "Still with these privileged people?". Then, to get rid of his insistence, I forced myself to understand. Not everything, at least something, if only to justify my "no". I acquired awareness that the fact of not having understood anything had been perfectly functional to my adherence to the "narration of the privileged". My "nonunderstanding" had been the wheel of a mechanism. And the more I tried to understand, the more that narrative, which today I don't hesitate to define as "criminal", fell apart. Nothing remained, and from that emptiness only the faces of those who lived that story from the inside appeared. Their voices reached me, their always dignified desperation, their looks. I received the love that, despite everything, still came out of their words. Love for what? Love for a company that was not just a company, but was also a myth. Why did that dream end? Was its end necessary? Was it inevitable? I would like this job to make everyone take the path it forced me to take and to say to everyone: “Stop, try, first of all, to get rid of what they told you, try to understand. Then your thought will be able to form, but, at that point, it will really be able to do so with all the freedom that your person is entitled to”. In short, it's just about understanding. If then trying to understand means being revolutionaries... Well, we will be».