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Sep 10 2017 - 16:00

MART Sala Conferenze

RESINA

RENZO CARBONERA e MARIA ROVERAN

Film presentation with the director and lead actress present

A choir of men. A female conductor. A family and a small community in need of rediscovering the sense of unity to face the challenges of tomorrow. The young cellist Maria is disillusioned by the ruthless world of music. She returns to her mountain hometown of Luserna, a small enclave where an ancient language, Cimbrian, is still spoken. There, she finds a sick mother, a brother just buried due to a tragic tractor accident, a grieving sister-in-law facing significant financial difficulties, and a small community grappling with the early effects of climate change. Her connection with the glorious, yet now disbanded, male polyphonic choir of which her grandfather was a part becomes the key to rebuilding community, hope, and a future.

Event organized in collaboration with MonturaEditing.

Renzo Carbonera has written and directed nine documentaries and docufictions for television, all distributed internationally, along with two short films: La penna di Hemingway featuring Sergio Rubini, Cosimo Cinieri, and Christiane Filangieri, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2011, and La Corsa, also presented in Venice in 2014. Resina was filmed in Trentino with the support of Rai Cinema, the Trentino Film Commission, and several private investors. It is a pilot project of T-Green, one of the best European protocols for eco-sustainable films.

Maria Roveran is a Venetian actress who studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. In 2013, she starred in Piccola Patria, directed by the Padua-based documentary filmmaker Alessandro Rossetto. A year later, she appeared in her second film, La foresta di ghiaccio, directed by Claudio Noce, which addresses the war in the former Yugoslavia and also features Emir Kusturica. In both films, she contributed to the soundtrack with her own songs. In 2016, she was selected by Giuseppe Piccioni for Questi giorni, which was in competition at the Venice Film Festival.