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PEOPLE&SOCIETY
40 years after her last documen-
tary, 85 years old Cecilia Mangini,
the first Italian female documen-
tary filmmaker, embarks on a
road trip across Apulia, her native
region once in full expansion. She
discovers a land ravaged: the big-
gest steel mill in Europe, located
in Taranto, poisoned the area. Her
travel turns then into an attempt
to understand how the relation
between men and industrializa-
tion has turned the post-war era
optimism into uncertainty.
GENRE
: Human Interest, Current Affairs,
Biography, Reportage
LENGTH
: 52’ - 74’
ASPECT RATIO
: 16:9
SHOOTING FORMAT
: HD
AUTHOR(S)
: Cecilia Mangini and Marian-
gela Barbanente
DIRECTOR(S)
: Cecilia Mangini and Ma-
riangela Barbanente
PRODUCTION
: GA&A Productions. In as-
sociation with RAI Cinema and Elephant
Film. With the support of MiBac, Apulia
Film Commission and Cineteca di Bologna.
PRODUCTION YEAR
: 2013
VERSION(S)
: Italian, English
FESTIVALS&AWARDS
:
Festival Internatio-
nal de Films de Femmes de Creteil 2015,
DMZ Doc Special 2014, Cinemambiente
Panorama Italia (Torino) 2014, Premio Li-
bero Bizzarri Fuori Concorso 2014, Festival
dei Popoli (Florence) - Opening Screening;
Festival Sguardi Altrove (Milan) In com-
petition
MY TRAVELS WITH CECILIA
Salto di Quirra is a region of
Sardinia where Western gover-
nments have tested “new wea-
pons” for over 50 years. Through
incredible archives, the pollu-
tion investigation of a geologist
and the story of a farmer whose
profound relationship with his
land has been deeply affected by
military activities, “Dark matter”
reveals the impact of 50 years of
weapons testing at the heart of
Europe. A “horror story” set in
seemingly untouched nature.
GENRE
: Italian, English, French
LENGTH
: 80’ - 52’
ASPECT RATIO
: 16:9
SHOOTING FORMAT
: HD
AUTHOR(S)
: Massimo D’Anolfi
and Martina Parenti
DIRECTOR(S)
: Massimo D’Anolfi
and Martina Parenti
PRODUCTION
: Montmorency Film in
collaboration with RAI Cinema, with the
support of the MEDIA Programme of the
European Union.
PRODUCTION YEAR
: 2013
VERSION(S)
: Italian, English, French
FESTIVALS&AWARDS
:
Berlinale; Cinèma
du Réel; Bafici Buenos Aires (winner),
Edinburgh Film Festival; Docville; Terre
di Cinema Tremblay (winner); Subversive
Film Festival, Doc Alliance, Crossing in Eu-
rope, Bergamo Film Meeting, Trieste Film
Festival; Cinemambiente Torino (winner).
MATERIA OSCURA - DARK MATTER
