10th edtion CIFF – 10-14 April 2024
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Alice Rohrwacher | Italy, Switzerland, Germany | 2014 | 111 min | Italian, French, German
In recent years, director Alice Rohrwacher has proven to be one of the greatest talents in Italy. She wrote this dreamy story about a family living on a remote farm and keeping bees based on her experiences as a young German-Italian. Wolfgang, the crude father (Sam Louwyck), hopes that his eldest daughter Gelsomina will one day carry on the beekeeping business in the same small-scale way.
Their cheerful, chaotic life is put under pressure when the family is asked to take part in a competition to win a role in a TV commercial. Wolfgang doesn’t like the attention, but for the rest of the family this is a comical diversion from their dull country life. For the first time, young Gelsomina finds out that her desires are different from her father’s.
A dreamy, delicate and loving portrait of a family trying to live in its own way, in spite of encroachment from the outside world.
Place: The Cinemas 2
Date: 26 March 2015
Time: 17:00
Duration: 2:00
Place: The Cinemas 3
Date: 27 March 2015
Time: 14:15
Duration: 2:00
Place: The Cinemas 4
Date: 29 March 2015
Time: 21:45
Duration: 2:00
Year in
Festival
2015
Director
Alice Rohrwacher
Camera
Hélène Louvart
Cast
Maria Alexandra Lungu
Sam Louwyck
Alba Rohrwacher
Sabine Timoteo
Agnese Graziani
Monica Bellucci
Country
Italy
Switzerland
Germany
Editor
Marco Spoletini
Language
Length
111 min
Music
Piero Crucitti
Producer
Carlo Cresto-Dina
Karl Baumgartner
Tiziana Soudani
Michael Weber
Gabriella de Gara
Sven Waelti
Burkhard Althoff
Doris Hepp
Production Company
tempest srl
Rai Cinema
Pola Pandora Film
Amka Films Productions
The Match Factory
RSI Radiotelevisione Svizerra
SRG SSR
ZDF – Das kleine Fernsehspiel
ZDF / ARTE
Production Design
Emita Frigato
Sales
Scenario
Alice Rohrwacher
Sound Design
Christophe Giovannoni
Year of Production
2014
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