| Director: | Andrea Segre |
|---|---|
| Production: | ZaLab Film (Andrea Segre, Giulia Campagna), Rai Cinema, Vulcano (Valentino Girardi), Istituto Luce Cinecittà (Enrico Bufalini) |
| Running Time: | 71’ |
| Language: | Italian, Venetian dialect, English |
| Country: | Italy |
| Main Cast: | Ulderico Segre, Giuliano Segre, Uberto Segre, Anna Pagliero, Mauro Stoppa, Boris Borella, Luigi Divari, Elena Almansi, Maurizio Calligaro, Giulia Tagliapietra Alberto Spizzamiglio Anna Campagnari Marino Almansi, Patrizia Zanella, Alexandra Ioana-Drobota, Marta Bortolozzo, Samanta Coviç, Dafni Segre Archontoula Skourtanioti |
| Screenplay: | Andrea Segre |
| Cinematographer: | Matteo Calore, Andrea Segre |
| Editor: | Chiara Russo |
| Music: | Teho Teardo |
| Sound: | Alberto Cagol, Marco Zambrano, Riccardo Spagnol
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Cinema
Molecole
Out of Competition
SYNOPSIS
Some things are very difficult for a father to share with his son and the latter can only start to understand them when he becomes a father. In February-April this year, Andrea Segre, who has been living in Rome for years, was blocked by the lockdown in Venice, the city of his father Ulderico. He was working there on two theatre and cinema projects on the city’s great blights: tourism and high water. While he was filming the city was frozen and emptied before his very eyes, restoring it to nature and its history, and in some ways to him as well. He collected visual notes and spent that period in his family home where he delved into the past. Personal archives in Super8 by the director’s father and the real protagonist of the film alternate with meetings with Venetian inhabitants, who talk about the relationship between the city and water whilst experiencing the unexpected arrival of the great void that has invaded Venice and a large part of the world. The whole thing is kept together by the director’s off screen voice, Teho Teardo’s music and an atmosphere of expectancy and amazement that pervades the entire visual and existential material of this strange journey.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
To make a film you have to think about it, write it, organise it, and film it. This wasn’t the case for Molecole. I experienced it and it came out by itself, in a time and dimension I couldn’t foresee. Molecole just owed. Like water. Like the molecules, the material we are all made of but can’t see. My father was Venetian and was a physicist-chemist. He studied molecule movements, the small elements of the material we can’t see but that determines the evolution of our lives. Often unexpectedly. Like the virus that blocked the world and showed me a solitary, magical Venice where I was able to encounter my father and understand what this fragile, powerful city can teach us.
PRODUCERS/DISTRIBUTORS
PRODUCTION 1: Andrea Segre, Giulia Campagna – ZaLab Film Srl
Vicolo Vincenzo Bellini, 12
35131 – Padova, Italy
Tel. +39 3336127483
segreandrea@gmail.com
giulia.campagna@gmail.com
PRODUCTION 2: Rai Cinema S.p.A
Piazza Adriana 12
00193 – Roma, Italy
Tel. +39 06 33179601
gabriele.genuino@raicinema.it
http://www.rai.it/raicinema
PRODUCTION 3: Valentino Girardi – Vulcano Srl
Via delle Industrie, 23/d
30175 – Venezia, Italy
Tel. + 39 345 5963443
valentino.girardi@vulcano.agency
http://www.vulcano.agency/
PRODUZIONE 4: Enrico Bufalini - Istituto Luce Cinecittà Srl
Via Tuscolana, 1055
00182 – Roma, Italy
Tel. +39 06 722861
e.bufalini@cinecittaluce.it
http://cinecitta.com/IT/it-it/cms/1/luce-cinecitta-home.aspx
WORLD SALES: Heino Deckert - Deckert Distribution GmbH
Gottschedstr. 18
04109 - Leipzig, Germany
Tel. +49 341 2156638
info@deckert-distribution.com
ITALIAN DISTRIBUTION: Maud Corino – ZaLab Film Srl
Vicolo Vincenzo Bellini, 12
35131 – Padova, Italy
Tel. +39 3336127483
distribution@zalabfilm.eu
PRESS OFFICE: Lucrezia Viti
via Anton Giulio Barrili, 12
00152 – roma, Italy
Tel. +39 06 45684719
Mob. +39 348 2565827
lucreziaviti@presspress.it
Livia Delle Fratte
Via Andrea Bafile 2
00195 – Roma, Italy
Tel. +39 349 2233828
liviadellefratte@presspress.it
