Original title Piccola patria
Director Alessandro Rossetto
Country, yearItaliana, 2013
Runtime 111'
Technical specs DCP
Production Arsenali Medicei - Jump Cut
Release date 2014
Status Pronto
Cinecittà rights Theatrical Italy, International rights sales, Domestic rights sales
Film
Small homeland
Two young girls, a hot, stifling summer, the desire to run away from a small provincial town. Luisa is full of life, uninhibited, unconventional. Renata is dark, angry and in need of love. The lives of two young women is a tale of blackmail, of a love betrayed, of violence: Luisa uses her Albanian boyfriend, Bilal; Renata uses Luisa’s body to orchestrate her revenge. Both want to leave the small community where they have grown up among village festivals and independence gatherings, helpless families and new generations of migrants targeted by those who feel increasingly threatened. Luisa, Renata and Bilal will risk loosing themselves, loosing a precious part of themselves, of those they love, ultimately loosing their own lives.
Festival
CPH:PIX NEW COPENHAGEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014: New Talent Grand Pix ROTTERDAM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014: Spectrum LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 2013: Orizzonti
Crew
Screenplay Alessandro Rossetto
Editing Jacopo Quadri
Cast
Maria ROVERAN (Luisa )
Roberta DA SOLLER (Renata)
Vladimir DODA (Bilal)
Diego RIBON Rino (Menon)
Lucia MASCINO (Anna Carnielo)
Mirko ARTUSO (Franco Carnielo)
Nicoletta MARAGNO (Itala Menon)
Mateo ÇILI (Anes)
Giulio BROGI (il Vecchio)
Drival HAJDARAJ (cugino di Bilal)
Valerio MAZZUCATO, Stefano SCANDALETTI (i sodali)