Padre

by Giada Colagrande
Category
Director
Giada Colagrande
Country / Year
Italy, 2016
Genre
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Rights
Festivals, Sales
Duration
90′, col.

SYNOPSIS

Giulia has just lost her father, the great music composer Giulio Fontana. Through music he contacts her from the other dimension and leads her to an initiation into the invisible world.

DIRECTOR

With studies in Italy, Switzerland and Australia, Giada Colagrande began her career in video art, making documentaries on contemporary art and short fiction. In 2001, she presented her first feature Open My Heart (Aprimi il cuore) at the Venice Film Festival. After this first work, she directed other feature films such as Before it Had a Name (The Black Widow, 2005), presented at the San Sebastian Festival and at the Venice Film Festival; A Woman (2010), starring Willem Dafoe and premiered in Venice; Bob Wilson’s Life & Death of Marina Abramovic, a documentary about the opera directed by Bob Wilson, and based on the biography of Marina Abramovic, starring Marina Abramovic, Bob Wilson, Willem Dafoe and Antony Hegarty. The collaboration with Abramovic continued also in The Abramovic Method (2013). In 2014, she plays in Abel Ferrara Pasolini and in Castello Cavalcanti, a short film directed by Wes Anderson.

    • Title
      Padre
    • Rights
      Festivals, Sales
    • Country
      Italy
    • Year
      2016
    • Length
      90′, col.
    • Director 
      Giada Colagrande
    • Screenplay
      Giada Colagrande,
      Claudio Colombo
    • Editing
      Cristina Flamini
    • Photography
      Tommaso Borgstrom
    • Sound
      Simone Altana, Pierpaolo Caputo,
      Pino Pischetola, Patrizio Simonini
    • Music
      Franco Battiato,
      Carlo Guaitoli
    • Costume Design
      Loredana Buscemi
    • Cast
      Giada Colagrande, Willem Dafoe,
      Franco Battiato, Marina Abramovic
    • Producer
      Gaia Furrer
    • Production
      Bidou Pictures
    • Morelia International Film Festival 2016 – Special Screenings
    • Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival 2016
    • Casa del Cinema Rome 2016
    • Lucca Film Festival and Europa Cinema 2017
    • FICCI Cuenca International Film Festival 2017
    • AlchimiAlchimie San Leo 2017
    • Le Corti dell’Imperatore Gioia del Colle 2017
    • Fondazione Brescia Musei Cinema Nuovo Eden 2017
    • Panama International Film Festival 2018 – International Portal
    • Pesaro International Film Festival 2018
    • Pesaro Incognita 2018
    • Spazio Oberdan Cineteca Milan 2018
    • Nuovo Cinema Aquila Rome 2018
    • Regent Street Cinema London 2018
    • Bari International Gender Film Festival 2018
    • Anche Cinema Bari 2018
    • Cinema Teatro Alkestis Cagliari 2018
    • Spazio Alfieri Florence 2018
    • Cinque Terre Film Festival Riomaggiore 2018 – Closing title
    • Cinema Teatro Orione Bologna 2018
    • Cinema Jolly Catania 2018
    • UK Film Festival London 2018
    • Cinema Moretta Alba 2018
    • Roxy Cinema Tribeca New York 2018
    • Nuovo Cinema Méliès Perugia 2019
    • Centre of Contemporary Art Torún 2019
    • Women International Film Festival Islamabad 2019
    • Piccolo Cinema Turin2019
    • Monteverdi Tuscany Sarteano 2019
    • Cinema Farnese Rome 2019
    • Cineteca Nacional Mexico City 2019
    • Mangiacinema San Secondo Parmense 2022
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