Fughe ed Approdi (Return to the Aeolian Islands: Between Cinema and Reality) (2011)
Director: Giovanna Taviani
112 minutes
Screening: Saturday, October 22 at 5:30 (English subtitles)
Fughe ed Approdi (Return to the Aeolian Islands: Between Cinema and Reality) (2011)
A journey on a red sailed tartan boat through the Aeolian islands, areas of expatriation and migration between the 1800s and 1900s, describing the escapes and landings between imagination and reality. The boatman of the journey is Franco “Figliodoro,” a former fisherman and native of Lipari. He is the boatman who in the movie Kaos (1984) ferried a mother and her children in exile to Malta, to reunite with her husband who had escaped persecution by the Bourbons. The same fisherman, in the closing sequence of the film, encouraged the children to make a stop in the white sandy beach. Franco Figliodoro will act as intermediary between the crew and the inhabitants of Lipari, Salina, Vulcano, Stromboli and Panarea.
The Aeolian islands have always been lands of escapes and landings. The pumice quarrymen ran away from these islands to protect themselves from the “stone disease”, silicosis. The inhabitants of Stromboli, Salina, Panarea and Vulcano emigrated to run away from the fire of the volcanoes or the phylloxera affecting their vines, their capers or their wheat. The great masters of cinema, too, landed here to spark off their imagination: Roberto Rossellini (Stromboli), Michelangelo Antonioni (L’Avventura), the Taviani brothers (Kaos), Dieterle (Vulcano), up to Troisi (Il Postino) and Moretti (Caro Diario).
Sicilian Film Festival Miami 2011
Winner – Best Documentary
Nastro d’Argento 2011
Special Award – Best Documentary
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