Synopsis
A woman narrates the script of Gli anni, a few pieces picked up on the shores of a timeless Sardinia. Neither the words nor the images claim to tell the whole of its story: the places of the past emerge as reverberations of a fragmentary and shifting memory, bathed in a new light. Gestures, faces, scenes of family life, reassembled and disconnected from their original context, become expressive elements of a confession that is at once self-discovery and collective account. Bodies and shadows, small objects and landscapes of the past make up the verses of the story of a life, like a promise to be renewed, inscribed in the exchange between the archive and the word.
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- Co-production : Films Grand Huit
- Foreign production companies : Dugong Films, Rai Cinema
- Film exports/foreign sales : Shortcuts
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- Screenwriter : Sara Fgaier
- Assistant director : Beatrice Buzi
- Editors : Sara Fgaier, Davide Minotti
- Sound Recordist : Riccardo Spagnol
- Foreign Producer : Marco Alessi
- Author of original work : Annie Ernaux
- Co-producer : Lionel Massol
- Sound Editor : Paolo Segat
- Special Effects : Davide Minotti
- Visual effects : Andrea Maguolo
- Sound Mixer : Riccardo Spagnol
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Experimental
- Sub-genre : Literary adaptation , Research - Experimental
- Themes : Memories, Imagination, Nostalgia
- Production language : Italian
- Coproducer countries : Italy (70.0%), France (30.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (Italy, France)
- Production year : 2018
- Runtime : 20 min 25 seconds
- Visa number : 150.308
- Visa issue date : 05/02/2019
- Production formats : Super 8 - Super 16
- Color type : Color and Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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