17/12/2012 - Un giorno devi andare will be the second Italian film in competition during next year’s Sundance film festival (17-23 January) together with The Future by Alicia Scherson

Un giorno devi andare [+see also:
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The two films have symmetrically opposed settings. Alicia Scherson’s film is based on a novel by Roberto Bolaño in which characters go from Chile to Rome. Giorgio Diritti takes his leading character, played by Jasmine Trinca (photo), through the Amazonian forest in Brazil, from Italy. The film tells the story of Augusta, a thirty-year-old who is forced to leave Italy after difficult family events. During a trip to the Amazon which will throw her into favelas, isolate her in the forest and expose her to native communities living along the river’s banks, Augusta will try to come to terms with her inner demons, the world and God.  

“The level of Italian films we saw this year was notable,” John Nein, senior Sundance programmer declared. “With Un giorno devi andare, we saw a visionary and sophisticated way of telling a story which matches Sundance’s broader competition levels. We are honoured to host a director of Giorgio Diritti’s calibre, and we are impatient to see how American audiences will react to his beautiful and thought-provoking film.”  

The presence of Italian films during the Sundance Film Festival is being coordinated by the Luce-Cinecittà Institute.

(Translated from Italian)