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SINGING CÂNTEC
Documentary Specifications	Biography / Biografie
View Trailer SINGING CÂNTEC Vjesh Rossella Schillaci Italy 2007 57 min. Director: Rossella Schillaci Photography: Sonia Antonini & Rossella Schillaci Editor: Marta Zen Production Company: Nicola Sofri, Salvo Cuccia / Palomar Endemol E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it	ROSELLA SCHILLACI M.A. in Visual Anthropology. Assistant director for TV, researcher in the University of Milan. Master în Antropologie vizuală. Asistent regie în televiziune, cercetător la Universitatea din Milano.
	Filmography / Filmografie
	2005 - Practice and mastery 2004 - Living beyond borders 2001 - Euro blows over Stromboli 2000 - Listen to me
	Awards / Premii
	First prize, Royal Anthropological Institute International Ethnographic Film Festival “Music & Performance” section, Manchester (2007) International prize for Mediterranean documentary & reportage (2008) First prize, Jean Rouch International Film Festival, Paris (2008) Prize “Cinema del Reale”, Festa del cinema del reale (2008) Best film realized in Mediterranean Countries, Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival (2008)

Synopsis / Sinopsis

The women from the villages San Constantino and San Paolo Albanese (from the Italian region Basilicata / Lucania) sing in falsetto voices the vjeshet, ancient songs, transmitted from mother to daughter, telling the tale of the Albanians who found refuge in southern Italy five centuries ago. But there are also original creations, about hard-working women with sense of humour, about immigration and return home, songs “thrown” by the author from one hill to another and “picked up” by a messenger, during the hard fieldwork, or sung at get-togethers. In 1954, well-known anthropologist Ernesto de Martino organized an expedition in those parts, to record there vjeshet. Now, more than four decades from then, the villager women tell their tales, after having travelled to all Italy for concerts, having even reached France and Albania. By careful observation, director Rossella Schillaci puts forward the cultural values for the local women.

Femeile din satele San Constantino și San Paolo Albanese (regiunea italiană Basilicata / Lucania) cunosc străvechile cîntece numite vjeshet, transmise de la o generaţie la alta, care povestesc odiseea albanezilor refugiaţi în Italia meridională cu cinci secole în urmă. În afara cîntecelor tradiţionale, există şi creații originale, despre femei harnice și cu simțul umorului, despre emigrare și reîntoarcerea acasă, cântece „aruncate” de autoare de pe un deal pe altul și „ridicate” de colportoare, în timpul muncilor grele ale câmpului, sau interpretate la șezători. În 1954, cunoscutul antropolog Ernesto De Martino a organizat o expediție în zonă, pentru a înregistra aceste vjeshet. Acum, la peste patru decenii distanță, sătencele povestesc călătoriile lor, după ce au străbătut Italia dând concerte, ba au ajuns chiar și în Franța și Albania. Prin observație atentă, regizoarea Rossella Schillaci evidențiază valoarea tradițiilor culturale pentru femeile din regiune.

ASTRA FILM FESTIVAL 2009

Programming / Programare
Tuesday 27 - Hall A - 22h40 / Marti 27 - Sala A - 22h40
Friday 30 - Hall B - 23h00 / Vineri 30 - Sala B - 23h00

Films in Europa Competition / Filme in Competitie - Europa
AGAINST BLOOD JUSTICE , Nathalie Rossetti & Turi Finocchiaro, France
ALYOSHA , Meelis Muhu, Estonia
AT HOME ANYWHERE , Judith Vrerinks, The Netherlands
BACK PASSING , Jaro Vojtek, Slovakia
BERLIN, KREUZBERG 36 , Angeliki Aristomenopoulou, Greece
THE FLOWER BRIDGE , Thomas Ciulei, Romania
IVETKA AND THE MOUNTAIN , Janecek Vit, Czech Republic
LOOK AT THE LIFE THROUGH MY EYES , Marija Dzidzeva, Croatia
LOST IN TRANSITION , Thom Vander Beken, Belgium
LOST WORLD , Gyula Nemes, Hungary
MY CLASS - FROM RUSSIA WITH RELATIVITY , Ekaterina Eremenko, Germany
PEACE FOR ALL , Elizabeta Koneska, Macedonia
PEOPLE DREAMS ACTIONS , Andreas Stiglmayr, Germany
ROUGE NOWA HUTA , Blandine Huk & Frederic Cousseau, France
SHADOW OF THE HOLY BOOK , Arto Halonen, Finland
SINGING , Rossella Schillaci, Italy
SOUL , Marina Anedda, Italy
YOU LIVE AND BURN , Iiris Harma, Finland

FESTIVAL PROGRAM

film screenings

AFF09 Film Program (.pdf)

Mo.26 | Tu.27 | We.28 | Th.29

Fr.30 | Sa.31 | Su.01

events

Mo.26 - Su.01

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