Familia

Luigi Celeste is twenty years old and lives with his mother Licia and his brother Alessandro. The three are very close. It has been almost ten years since any of them has last seen Franco, their partner and father, who ruined the two boys’ childhood and Licia’s youth with memories of fear and abuse. Luigi lives a common life and, while looking for a sense of belonging and identity, decides to join an extreme right-wing group where rage and oppression are still rampant. One day Franco returns, claiming his children and his family back, but he is still the man who used to poison everything he touched, making those he loved prisoners of his shadow. That of Luigi and his family is a story that goes down to the depths of the abyss to pursue a path of rebirth, whatever the cost.

Familia is a black melodrama which blends languages used in different film genres: from psychological thrillers to horror and social films. This contamination reveals a strong desire to try new things, to involve the viewer, to go deep into the story and to make it universal. Films, as experience material, allow us to get to know inaccessible microcosms, unravel emotions, open up the story to a more complex way of looking and thinking. Familia aims to do just that, to tell a story about violence, especially psychological and witnessed violence; to show the deep wounds that leave scars on one’s childhood, forever.

PRODUCTION 1: Attilio de Razza e Nicola Picone - TRAMP LIMITED
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00195 roma
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90141 palermo
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PRODUCTION 2: Nicola Giuliano - Indigo Film
Via Torino, 135
00184, Roma, Italy
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info@indigofilm.it

PRODUCTION 3: Pierpaolo Verga - O Groove
Via Giovenale, 9
80122, napoli, Italy
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pierpaoloverga@ogroove.it

WORLD SALES: Gaetano Maiorino - True Colours
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ITALIAN DISTRIBUTION: Giampaolo Letta - Medusa Film
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00153, Roma, Italy
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