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Fare paese

dialogues on neo-population – I

Salone d'Onore, castello del Valentino | viale Mattioli, Torino
17 January 2025

Typology:

Roots and horizons: dialogues on repopulation – first meeting

The first meeting of the series Roots and Horizons: Dialogues on New Population Focuses on the theme of new internal migration trends, particularly among the younger generations in Italy. The documentary Fare Paese (Making a Country), produced by the Frange Mobili and La Bandita collectives in the southern Apennines during the summer of 2023, traces the possible life trajectories, sometimes counter-trend, of young people from six villages in Calabria, Basilicata, and Puglia. Many choose to stay or return to their territories of origin, intersecting metro-philia with new models of life, community, and forms of care to build a country.

Laura Saja, Antonio De Rossi, Mauro Fontana, and Loris Servillo discuss this with the authors.

Discussant
Laura Saija - Università degli Studi di Catania

Fare paese

TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Title: Fare Paese (To Be a Village)
International title: To Be a Village
Duration: 45 minutes
Year: 2024
Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Format: 16:9 (1.78:1)
Color: Color
Distribution contact: labanditafilm@gmail.com // +39 3791595170

CREDITS
A collective film by: Frange Mobili & La Bandita
Story: Caterina Battolla, Danny Biancardi, Silvia Cafora, Rossella Ferro, Cassandra Fontana, Silvia Miola, Marta Violante
Direction, Photography, and Editing: Danny Biancardi, Silvia Miola, Marta Violante
Production: Frange Mobili & La Bandita
With the support of: Department for Youth Policies and Universal Civil Service, Sustaria, I Frati – Ex Convento, Manola Sanlo, More – Azioni di Rigenerazione, A crap z’è sciot, Scuola del Graffito di Montemurro
Sound editing and mixing: Sebastiano Caceffo
Color correction: Giada Di Fonzo
Distribution: Associazione La Bandita

Synopsis
In August 2023, a caravan entered the Southern Apennines carrying a mobile cinema. Heading south, it briefly reversed the slow and steady migration northward. It created a traveling festival together with those in the village who refuse to give up, living in six small villages that, like so many others, are losing the voices, sights, and sounds that populate them. The Frappp! festival was an opportunity to compose a choral narrative, where the aspirations and fears of those who have returned and those who have never left meet and sometimes clash. This documentary gives space to their voices, in an attempt to restore the plurality of views and perceptions that crowd these places.

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FULL è un centro di ricerca del Politecnico di Torino. Esploriamo, immaginiamo e progettiamo il futuro del territorio e del patrimonio urbano.

@OGR Tech – Corso Castelfidardo, 22
10128 Torino – Italy
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Future
Urban Legacy
Lab

FULL is a research center of the Politecnico di Torino. We explore, imagine and design the future of the territory and of the urban legacies.

@OGR Tech – Corso Castelfidardo, 22
10128 Torino – Italy
full@polito.it