SEGRETI E SORELLE SECRETS AND SISTERS

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1 44. Solothurner Filmtage 44es Journées de Soleure 44e Giornate di Soletta 44th Solothurn Film Festival SEGRETI E SORELLE SECRETS AND SISTERS film by FRANCESCO JOST PRESS KIT / DOSSIER DE PRESSE ventura film al castello ch-6866 meride ventura@venturafilm.ch

2 SEGRETI E SORELLE SECRETS AND SISTERS film by FRANCESCO JOST with Anita Kravos and Karolina Dafne Porcari a ventura film production, in coproduction with RTSI-Televisione svizzera 85, dolby stereo, original version: Italian / English subtitles official screening: Landhaus, January 20, 17:30 additional screening: Canva Blue, January 22, 21:00 Contacts

3 SEGRETI E SORELLE sinossi Emilia e Paola tornano nella casa che le ha viste crescere dove nessuno ha messo più piede dalla morte della madre. Paola se n era andata molto giovane e non era tornata nemmeno per il funerale. Emilia invece aveva assistito la madre fino alla fine, era partita tre giorni dopo, s era poi sposata e s era fatta una vita altrove. Nella casa le due sorelle si scontrano con i ricordi e subito riaffiorano le tensioni che nel passato le dividevano. Anche se sotto lo stesso tetto si ritrovano perciò a vivere il ritorno separatamente. Emilia lentamente s estranea, rinchiudendosi in se stessa nascondendosi nella soffitta dove durante la malattia la madre si rifugiava per stare sola. Un mondo segreto che Emilia scopre ascoltando le cassette su cui la madre giorno dopo giorno aveva registrato pensieri e impressioni. Irrequieta spavalda e con la voglia di divertirsi Paola cerca invece di rimettersi a fare la vita di un tempo, di ritrovare gli amici di allora, ma s accorge che il passato è ormai lontano. Col trascorrere dei giorni l incomprensione tra le sorelle cresce tanto più che Emilia, che aveva avuto l idea di vendere la casa, pare ora invece ostacolarne la vendita. Paola è esasperata e non capisce la sorella. Non sa che Emilia si sta identificando sempre più con la madre. Nella solitudine della soffitta infatti Emilia passa i migliori momenti della giornata realizzando il suo sogno di creare abiti, riuscendo così a allontanare le sue angosce. Paola lo scopre quando delusa arrabbiata decide di lasciare la casa e la sorella. Solo allora Emilia trova la forza di confessarle la sua terribile paura e Paola si rende conto che la vendita della casa era soprattutto un silenzioso grido d aiuto.

4 SECRETS AND SISTERS synopsis Emilia and Paola return to the house they grew up in, where no one has set foot since the death of their mother. Paola left home very early and didn t even attend the funeral. Emilia assisted her mother till the end and left three days later. Once home, the two sisters clash immediately over old problems, and the tension that divided them in the youth rises again to the surface. Even when living in the same house, they follow different paths. Emilia slowly shuts herself off from the world, hardly ever leaving the house, and hiding in the attic where their mother herself used to hide when she wanted to be left alone. In fact, it is a secret world that Emilia discovers when she begins listening to the tapes on which her mother recorded her thoughts and feelings. Restless, bold and looking for fun, Paola tries to rejoin to her old life and friends, but she discovers that those years now lie in the distant past. As the days pass, their disagreements intensify, especially because Emilia, who had the idea to sell the house, now seems to have changed her mind. Paola is vexed and no longer understands her sister. She doesn t know that Emilia is increasingly identifying with their mother. Alone in the attic, she starts sewing again, something she d always dreamt of doing, thus finding peace in her creative solitude. Angry and disappointed, Paola finally decides to leave town, but she discovers Emilia s hideaway just before her departure. Emilia finally breaks down and confesses the great fear to Paola, who only then understands that the sale of the house was only a silent cry for help.

5 SEGRETI E SORELLE note del regista sui temi del film SEGRETI E SORELLE è una storia che mi ha subito interessato per i temi che tratta, universali, che hanno tutti un eco in ognuno di noi. C è il tema del ritorno perché Emilia e Paola tornano nel luogo da cui erano partite; c è il rapporto stretto che le unisce, fatto di tensioni ma anche di una leggerezza che è la spia di una loro creatività messa a tacere o tenuta in sordina. Svuotando la casa materna non possono evitare i ricordi legati alla madre, morta da anni e di cui non si vede nemmeno una fotografia; e tramite la madre c è il confronto con la paura e la morte. Il film tocca anche il tema dell impossibilità di comunicare a chi ci sta vicino i sentimenti più profondi e più individuali. Paola infatti fino alla fine non intuirà che la vendita della casa è solo un pretesto, che Emilia le sta chiedendo d esserle vicina ma non riesce a dirglielo, a dirle che ha paura. sui luoghi Il film è girato a Chiasso, ma in una Chiasso che potrebbe essere ovunque proprio perché la storia delle sorelle potrebbe capitare ovunque. Ho voluto che la casa materna che le due sorelle devono svuotare stesse davanti alla ferrovia. Una casa quindi su un area in movimento, di cambiamenti, di treni che passano, di un continuo andare e venire, partire tornare, attraversare. Le sorelle, come facevano da bambine, ancora oggi per passare da una parte all altra della città traversano l area dei binari. All interno, invece, la casa è impregnata di ricordi. Ha una storia, una storia di famiglia. le attrici Il ruolo di Emilia è interpretato da Anita Kravos, un attrice Italiana formata alla scuola di recitazione di Mosca. Karolina Dafne Porcari, italiana che vive e lavora in Polonia dopo aver frequentato la scuola di recitazione di Cracovia, è invece Paola. Fin dall inizio ho pensato a loro come le sorelle anche per il loro modo di affrontare e approfondire il personaggio che devono interpretare e al modo molto naturale di recitare. Qualità che vengono probabilmente dalla loro formazione nell Europa dell Est e che io cerco negli attori.

6 SECRETS AND SISTERS director s note on the film s themes Secrets and Sisters interested me immediately because of the themes the story explores, all universal, all echoing in each of us. Apparent is the theme of returning, since both Emilia and Paola come back to the town in which they grew up. Then, there is the close relationship between the two sisters that clearly addresses the tensions but also depicts the lightheartedness that hint at a sort of subdued creativity. When emptying their mother s house, Emilia and Paola cannot avoid recalling their dead mother, a picture of whom we never see. Through the mother, of course, there is the theme of fear and death. Another theme included in the film is the difficulty in communicating our deeper feelings. In fact, only at the end does Paola understand that the sale of the house was only an excuse, and that Emilia is simply asking her to be next to her; however, she cannot say that she is terribly scared. on the film s locations The film is shot in Chiasso, but in such a way that Chiasso could be somewhere else, since the story of the two sisters clearly could happen anywhere. I wanted the mother s house to be next the railroad tracks, such that it would represent a home in an area in constant motion, with trains running one after the other, arriving and departing, of changes, and cutting through. Even today, in order for the two sisters to reach the other part of town, they simply walk through the railroad tracks as they did when they were children. In contrast, instead of being in motion, the house is full of memories. It is a house that contains the family s history; its story. on the actresses Emilia is played by Anita Kravos, an Italian actress who studied acting at the famous GITIS in Moscow. Karolina Dafne Porcari, an Italian living in Poland where she studied acting in Crakovia, plays Paola. I had these actresses in mind from the beginning because both have that East European way of approaching a role, and acting it very naturally. I prefer that quality in actors.

7 SEGRETI E SORELLE 85 dolby stereo, original version Italian Switzerland / ventura film 2009 production co-production director original idea screenplay cinematography sound editing music sound design / mix art director costumes produced by cast ventura film RTSI-Televisione svizzera Francesco Jost Isabella and Daniela Cianciarulo Isabella and Daniela Cianciarulo Francesco Jost, Elda Guidinetti Vladan Radovic Brigitta Pasquadibisceglie Milenia Fiedler Patricio Morales Antonio D Ambrosio Fabrizio Nicora Laura Corti Elda Guidinetti, Andres Pfaeffli Anita Kravos Karolina Dafne Porcari Gigio Alberti Stefano Fiorentino Cecilia Broggini

8 BIO-FILMOGRAPHY FRANCESCO JOST Born in Locarno (Switzerland) Film director, film editor, painter, graphic and video artist CSIA, Lugano: diploma in graphic art (with Max Huber and Bruno Monguzzi) As a freelance graphic artist In the USA worlks as a freelance graphic artist and with video: corporate videos and work as technician on various documentaries and for RAI International Back in Switzerland. Creation of promotional material and Internet web site for ventura film.. 2nd camera assistant on the TV movie LA DIGA (THE DAM) by Fulvio Bernasconi IL RE È NUDO, 8, 35mm with Stefano Fiorentino, Elisabetta Ferrari, Antonella Morassutti Locarno International Film Festival 2004, Leopards of tomorrow 2005 BRUNO MONGUZZI,12, a portrait for DESIGNsuisse 2006 JOLIDO, 26, Digital Betacam with Joe Lars Prinz, Anita Kravos, Emanuele De Matteis, Daniele Favilli, Roberto Magnani, Margherita Schoch, Greta Zamparini, David Zurbuchen Francesca Radaelli, Ronaldo Bushi, Nicola Dattoli, Susanna Giani. Locarno International Film Festival 2006, Leopards of tomorrow / Trieste Film Festival / MedFilm Festival Rome / International Fest of Cinema and Technology, Los Angeles / Nomination: Swiss Film Prize (best short) Location scouting, set assistant and graphic designer for the feature film FUORI DALLE CORDE (OUT OF BOUNDS) by Fulvio Bernasconi COME TE LA PASSI IN FAMIGLIA, documentary, 52, Digital Betacam SEGRETI E SORELLE, 85, original version Italian, En. subtitles with Anita Kravos, Karolina Dafne Porcari, Gigio Alberti, Stefano Fiorentino, Cecilia Broggini.

9 features 1989 MEGAVILLE by Peter Lehner, fiction Co produced with DRS and Heritage Inc. Los Angeles 1993 TERRA BRUCIATA by Andres Pfaeffli, Co produced with RTSI, Teleclub, ZDF-ARTE, Dream Film 1996 LA SICILIA by Luc Pien, Co produced with Kladaradatsch! Films, RTBF, Canal+, SSR and Eurimages IRRLICHTER by Christoph Kühn Co produced with SSR/ZDF/ORF and the support of Eurimages Awards: Prix du public Bludenz - Prix Suisa Locarno 1997 PETITS DESORDRES AMOUREUX by Olivier Péray Co produced with Kien Productions, Igeldo, Canal + and Eurimages Awards: Prix Pierrot Festival Berlin - César for Bruno Putzulu (meilleur éspoir masculin) 2000 NO QUARTO DA VANDA by Pedro Costa Co produced with RTP, ZDF, RTSI Awards: Locarno IFF: Prix du jury des jeunes, Special Mention Official Jury, Mention Jury of Cinéclubs - Cinéma du Réel Paris: Prix de la Bibliothèque - Yamagata Int. Documentary Festival: FIPRESCI Prize - Cannes Film Festival 2002: France Culture Award, Foreign Cineaste of the Year - Valencia FF: best cinematography / Festivals: Torino FF - Buenos Aires Festival of Independent Cinema - Copenhagen Int. Documentary FF L ANGE DE L EPAULE DROITE by Djamshed Usmonov Co produced with Fabrica Cinema, ArtCam, Asht Village, RTSI, Rai Cinema Awards: London Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize - Tokio Film Festival: Jury Prize - Angers Film Festival: Jury Prize - Singapore Film Festival: best director - Bratislava Film Festival: best film, best actor & Ecumenical Prize - Tromsö Film Festival: Aurora award and Don Quixote award - Nika award Wiesbaden: Special Mention / Festivals: Séléction Officielle Festival de Cannes 2002, Un certain regard 2003 LA FELICITÀ NON COSTA NIENTE by Mimmo Calopresti Co produced with Bianca Film, Europa Corp., Eurimages Awards: Nominations David di Donatello: Francesca Neri best supporting actress, Arnaldo Catinari best cinematography - Nominations Nastri d argento: Avion Travel best song, Laura Betti best supporting actress - Madrid imagen: best cinematography / Festivals: San Francisco IFF - Habana FF - Annecy Cinema Italien - Palm Springs IFF - Festival du Film Italien de Villerupt LA DIGA tv movie by Fulvio Bernasconi Co produced with RTSI and ARTE Festivals: Festival Tout Ecran Geneva, international competition - Bruxelles Film Festival - Solothurn Film Festival 2004 LOS MUERTOS by Lisandro Alonso Co produced with 4L, Fortuna Films, Slot Machine / ARTE, RTSI Awards: Torino Film Festival: best film - Cinédécouvertes (Belgique): Golden Age Award - Viennale 2004: Standard Reader s Prize & FIPRESCI Prize - Karlovy Vary International Film Festival: Czech Television Award for the Forum of Independents Best Film - International Yerevan Film Festival: Jury special Prize - International Film Festival Santiago de Chile: best film - Festival Paysages de Cinéastes de Chatenay Malabry: Special Jury Prize & best photography / Festivals: Quinzaine des Réalisateurs Cannes - Edinburgh IFF - Sarajevo IFF - Toronto IFF - Vancouver

10 IFF - Pusan IFF - Sao Paulo IFF - Rotterdam IFF - Miami IFF - Guadalajara IFF - San Francisco IFF - Hong Kong IFF - Jerusalem IFF - Melbourne IFF 2006 LA TRADUCTRICE by Elena Hazanov Co produced with TSR and Filmocom Festivals: Locarno IFF, Cineastes du present - München IFF - Edinburgh IFF - Solothurn FF - Festival du Film Francophone de Vienne - Rassegna del Nuovo Cinema Europeo di Genova - Arras IFF JUVENTUDE EN MARCHA by Pedro Costa Co produced with Contracosta, Unlimited, ARTE, RTP, RTSI Awards: Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award: Independent/Experimental Film&Video award / Festivals: Cannes Film Festival (competition) - Torino FF - Toronto IFF - Belgrade IFF - San Francisco IFF - Rotterdam IFF - New York FF- Adelaide FF - Ljubljana Documentary FF - London FF - Melbourne IFF - Sao Paulo IFF 2007 FUORI DALLE CORDE by Fulvio Bernasconi Co produced with ITC Movie, Bianca Film, Rai Cinema, RTSI. Developed with EKRAN. Awards: Locarno Film Festival (competition): Silver Leopard (ex aequo) to Michele Venitucci for Best Actor - Brooklyn International Film Festival: best cinematography - Santa Marinella Film Festival: best film - Nomination: Swiss Film Prize for best feature film / Festivals: Trieste FF - Festival del Cinema Europeo di Lecce - Festroia IFF (competition) - Shanghai IFF - Moscow IFF - MedFilm Festival Rome - Osaka European FF - Tallin Black Nights FF - Arras IFF - Annonay IFF (competition) NESSUNA QUALITÀ AGLI EROI by Paolo Franchi Co produced with ITC Movie, Bianca Film, RTSI Awards: Globi d oro 2008: best director / Festivals: Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Venezia (competition) - Pusan IFF - Festival du Film Italien de Villerupt (competition) - Festival International du Film d Amour de Mons (competition) 2009 SECRETS AND SISTERS by Francesco Jost Co produced with RTSI-Televisione svizzera Festivals: Solothurn Film Festival shorts 1992 LA ready-made SPOSA CONTENTA by Elda Guidinetti Co produced with RTSI, Festival Locarno Pardi di domain 1995 TAXI SERVICE by Elie Khalifé and Alexandre Monnier Co produced with TSR, ACCT, LBC Awards: Festival du Film Arabe, Paris: best short - Locarno IFF: Prix Kodak, - Montpellier FF: best short - Swiss quality award - Nomination Prix du cinéma Suisse 1997 MERCI NATEX by Elie Khalifé and Alexandre Monnier Co produced with TSR & Canal+ Awards: London Film Festival: best short 2004 IL RE È NUDO by Francesco Jost Co produced with RTSI Festivals: Locarno International Film Festival (Leopards of Tomorrow competition) 2006 JOLIDO by Francesco Jost coproduced with RTSI Festivals: Locarno IFF - Trieste FF - MedFilm Festival Rome - International Fest of Cinema and Technology, Los Angeles - Nomination: Swiss Film Prize (best short)

11 documentaries 1988 MARIO BOTTA - SENZA LUCE - NESSUNO SPAZIO by Andres Pfaeffli Co produced with SWF; in the MOMA catalogue 1990 LES CARNETS DE SANDOR by Hugues Ryffel Co produced with RTSI - Swiss quality award 1991 POINT DE VUE by Bernhard Lehner & Andres Pfaeffli Co produced with RTSI - Swiss quality award 1992 SOPHIE TAEUBER-ARP by Christoph Kühn Co produced with DRS Awards: Prix de la ville de Zurich - Swiss quality award - Visions du Réel Nyon: Special Mention - Prix Luciano Emmer Paris - Merit winner San Francisco 1993 DIE SYMMETRIE DER ORDNUNG, theme evening for ARTE TRIUMPH DER LEERE by Silvano Agosti, co produced with ARTE IMAGINAERE ARCHITEKTUR by Hartmut Bitomsky, co produced with ARTE ARCHITETTURA RIMOSSA by Elda Guidinetti & Andres Pfaeffli, co produced with ARTE and RTSI 1994 ALBERTO SARTORIS LA MEMORIA DI UN SECOLO by Elda Guidinetti & Andres Pfaeffli Co produced with ARTE and RTSI 1995 PALAZZI DEI SOGNI by Elda Guidinetti & Andres Pfaeffli, co produced with ARTE 1996 DIE FLUCHT OHNE ENDE DES JOSEPH ROTH by Andres Pfaeffli & Elda Guidinetti, co produced with ARTE and RTSI anni d acqua by Fulvio Bernasconi, co produced with RTSI ANNA FELDER - TRA DOVE PIOVE E NON PIOVE, by Andres Pfaeffli & Elda Guidinetti, documentary for SSR SCHLARAFFENLAND, a theme evening for ARTE EINE EUROPÄISCHE NOTE by Brigitte Kramer & Jörg Jeshel Co produced with ARTE and RTSI LA CUCCAGNA NAPOLETANA by Andres Pfaeffli & Elda Guidinetti Co produced with ARTE and RTSI 1999 TRÜMPI by Iwan Schumacher Co produced with DRS, 3 SAT, ORF ROM TOUR by Silvio Soldini, idea by Antonio Tabucchi Co produced with RTSI, Telepiù and La sept/arte Awards: Festival dei Popoli Florence: Prix Planète 2000 ADDIO LUGANO BELLA by Francesca Solari Co produced with ZDF Nomination: Prix du cinéma Suisse / Festivals: Locarno IFF, Cinéastes du présent - Rome FF - Trieste FF - Festival International de Films de Femmes de Creteil - Internationales Documentarfilm Festival München - Les Ecrans Documentaires, Paris - 23esimo Incontro Internazionale di Film di Donne, Florence L OSPEDALE by Fulvio Bernasconi Co produced with RTSI 2001 PAUL SACHER, portrait du mécène en musicien by Edna Politi Co produced with SSR, ARTE, Festival Locarno

12 SANT EGIDIO by Nico Di Biase, Co produced with ADR Productions, SSR, ARTE 2002 TUTTE TESSINERLI by Andres Pfaeffli and Elda Guidinetti Co produced with RTSI SEPTEMBERWIND / VENTO DI SETTEMBRE by Alexander J. Seiler Co produced with RTSI Festivals: Visions du Réel, Nyon (competition) STORIE DI VOLONTARIA AMICIZIA by Misha Györig in coproduction with RTSI 2003 TRISTANO E TABUCCHI by Veronica Noseda e Marcello Togni with Antonio Tabacchi co produced with RTSI Awards: Prix Unesco Paris / Festivals: Locarno International Film Festival, Cinéastes du présent SOGNO DI TANGO by Jesse Allaoua Co produced with RTSI 2005 POWERFUL MEN by Fulvio Bernasconi Co produced with RTSI Festivals: Locarno International Film Festival - Solothurn Film Festival - Nomination Prix Europa DIE GROSSE STILLE (INTO GREAT SILENCE) by Philip Groening Co produced with Philip Gröning Filmproduktion, BR, ARTE/ZDF, SSR/RTSI Awards: Sundance Film Festival: Special Jury Prize - Bayerischer Filmpreis 2005: Best documentary film - German Critics Award - Nomination Deutscher Filmpreis - Prix Arte best european documentary Deutscher Kamerapreis - Premio Ennio Flaiano: best camera & best film - German Films: Film of the year - Sao Paulo IFF: Jury Prize / Festivals: Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Venezia, Orizzonti - Toronto IFF - Leipzig Documentary FF - Hong Kong IFF - New directors/new Films, New York - San Francisco IFF 2006 VOLEVO SOLO VIVERE by Mimmo Calopresti Co produced with Shoah Foundation, Rai Cinema, Gagè,Wildsmedia, RTSI Festivals: Cannes Film Festival, hors competition - Jerusalem IFF - Festival des Films du Monde de Montreal - Annecy Cinema Italien - Palm Springs IFF - Göteborg FF 2007 SALATA BALADI by Nadia Kamel Co produced with Snooze Productions, Les Films d Ici, Citizen Production, RTSI Awards: San Francisco Arab Film Festival: best documentary - Mumbai Intarnational Film Festival: best long documentary & FIPRESCI award - National Film Festival, Egypt: Certificate of Merit / Festivals: Locarno IFF - Middle East IFF Abu Dhabi - Paris Grand Ecran - Cinema East Film Fest, New York - IDFA Amsterdam - Solothurn FF - Women FF Alexandria - Ljubljana Documentary FF - Festival Docatunis, Tunisia - Internationales Dokumentarfilm Festival München - Beirut Docudays - DocLisboa DUTTI DER RIESE by Martin Witz Co produced with RTSI, Teleclub Awards: Filmprize City of Zurich - Nomination Prix Walo / Festivals: Locarno Film Festival - Deutsches Historisches Museum, Kinematographie heute: Schweiz VOGLIAMO ANCHE LE ROSE by Alina Marazzi Co produced with Mir Cinematografica, Rai Cinema, RTSI Awards: Nomination David di Donatello: best documentary / Festivals: Locarno IFF, Piazza Grande - London FF - IDFA Amsterdam - Torino FF - Filmaker FF Milano - Seattle IFF - Feminale Women s FF 2008 COME TE LA PASSI IN FAMIGLIA by Francesco Jost, co produced with RTSI