original title:
Sciatu meo
directed by:
cast:
Bruno Di Chiara, Lollo Franco, Gaspare Balsamo, Chiara Muscato, Marco Castiglia
screenplay:
cinematography:
editing:
set design:
music:
producer:
production:
Zabbara, Full Moon Films, with the support of: Fondazione Alta Mane Italia, Otto per Mille della Chiesa Valdese, Cine Teatro Ariston di Trapani
distribution:
world sales:
country:
Italy/France
year:
2023
film run:
15'
format:
colour
status:
Ready (01/09/2023)
festivals & awards:
Peppe retraces the memories that connect him to the last strip of land where Europe ends, to the house overlooking the cliffs where he grew up, and to the Sicily of his birth. The fainted image of his family and the last moments of his carefree childhood, resurface in his mind. The friends he had to abandon too soon; his grandfather who tirelessly recounted stories of the sea; an unfulfilled father; and a mother descending into the spiral of depression. During Peppe’s journey coming home, years unravel over the miles that he put between himself and home. Years of absence echo in the dull sound of the wind breaking against the rocks. Peppe goes back home to retrieve, from the seabed, the breath of life (sciatu meo) that sustains his vitality, as well as his memory of an eternal love.