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Montedoro

Australian Premiere

CAST

  • Pia Marie Mann
  • Mario Duca
  • Luciana Paolicelli
  • Joe Capalbo
  • Anna Di Dio
Italy | 2015 | 88 mins
Drama
A mythic journey toward self-discovery, all set against fantastic Italian scenery.
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DIRECTOR Antonello Faretta

Was born in 1973 in Potenza. Some of his works are Lei lo SaDa Dove Vengono le Storie?,Il Vento, la Terra, il Grasso sulle ManiNine Poems in BasilicataTransiti and The Garden of Hope. His films have featured in international film festivals, art galleries and museums throughout the world such Centre Pompidou, Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona, Cannes Film Festival, Galerie du Jour Agnes B., Rotterdam Film Festival, Hot Docs Toronto and Pen World Voices Festival New York. Montedoro is his first feature film.

After the death of her adoptive parents, an American woman journeys to Montedoro, a remote Italian town in southern Italy, hoping to discover her true origins in this haunting and poetic film.

When Porziella (Pia Marie Mann) discovers her Italian origins, she decides to travel to Italy in the midst of an identity crisis, hoping to find the natural mother she has never known. However, upon arrival, she finds the town abandoned. It is an almost apocalyptic scene with the ghost town resting eerily on a hill, completely abandoned. With the help of a few mysterious locals, she undergoes a fascinating and magical voyage through time and memory. She re-connects the spectres of an unknown past that belongs to her, that is part of her family story and part of that ancient and mysterious community that is now extinct, but will come to life one last time.

*NOT SCREENING IN HOBART OR BYRON

  • Official Selection
    • Narrative Feature Competition - Atlanta Film Festival 2015
    • Montreal World Film Festival 2015
    • In Competition - Cineramabc 2015
All non-English films screen with English subtitles.

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