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Made in Italy at Hot Docs

Butterfly

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Mon, Apr 29 9:45 PM TIFF Bell Lightbox  4

Wed, May 1 3:30 PM Scotiabank Theatre  4

Sun, May 5 10:00 AM Scotiabank Theatre 13

80 Minutes | 2018 | Italy | Italian | Full Subtitles | North American Premiere | Rating: PG

 

When 18-year-old Irma “The Butterfly” Testa becomes the first female boxer to make Italy’s Olympic team, she’s an instant media sensation. Cameras can’t get enough of the gorgeous young girl, and a childhood spent in one of the most violent Mafia-controlled neighbourhoods of Naples only gilds her image. Filmmakers Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman began filming the fighter long before the 2016 Rio Games and sensed a complex story beneath her Cinderella veneer. Intimate cameras capture the one constant in Irma’s turbulent life: Lucio, her elderly coach, father figure and confidant. Their mutually tearful goodbye as she leaves for competition betrays Lucio’s fear that he hasn’t quite prepared the young star for what awaits. When she fails to reach the podium in Rio, her bravado disappears. Without any cameras watching, she now faces the fight of her life—to give into fear and an unexpected family crisis, or to fight for herself.

 

I Had a Dream

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Sun, Apr 28 2:45 PM Scotiabank Theatre 3

Tue, Apr 30 4:15 PM TIFF Bell Lightbox 4

Sun, May 5 8:30 PM Scotiabank Theatre 8

84 Minutes | 2018 | Italy France | Italian | Full Subtitles | North American Premiere | Rating: PG

Ten years ago, director Claudia Tosi began filming the careers of two good friends and politicians in Italy: local councillor Daniela de Pietri and Deputy of Parliament Manuela Ghizzoni. A decade later, Tosi reunites them to reflect on the footage together. Surprised by images of their optimism in 2007 when they first challenged Berlusconi’s power, neither could have predicted they’d end up fighting for democracy itself by 2018. Cameras witness the chauvinism and racism each struggled against at work and in the streets as they pursued their commitments to women’s issues and workers’ rights. They see the humour and support they shared to keep the fires for change alive. But their hope and progressive policies slowly dissolve as the seeds of an unexpectedly fierce populism take root. Winner of DOK Leipzig’s Golden Dove for Best Documentary, this rousing censure of government tracks the irrevocably changed tone of politics not only in Italy, but the world.

 

Una Primavera

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80 Minutes | 2018 | Austria Germany Italy | Italian | Full Subtitles | North American Premiere | Rating: PG

Mon, Apr 29 9:00 PM Scotiabank Theatre 8

Wed, May 1 4:00 PM TIFF Bell Lightbox 2

Sat, May 4 12:45 PM Scotiabank Theatre 3

After 40 years of abuse, Fiorella finally leaves her husband for good. Now the mother of three grown children, she wearily departs her beloved Italian countryside house and the only identity she’s known since she was a teenager. As her filmmaker daughter begins a video diary of her mother’s experience, one wonders what took the broken woman so long. But what begins as a chronicle of a midlife bid for freedom widens into a startling image of a culture that’s doing its best to push her back home. Her elder daughter concedes that “she is free to do as she pleases, but she’ll have to live with it,” while an uncle quotes Mussolini: “It is better to marry a lion than a sheep.” Intimate confessions and subtle observations reveal an insidious machismo that trumps Fiorella’s right to live as she chooses. Quietly enraging, Una Primavera is an eye-opening look at women’s place in modern Italy.

 

Made In Italy program presented in partnership with the Italian Trade Commission and Istituto Luce-Cinecittà.

  • Organizzato da: Hot Docs and Italian Trade Commission