LA VITA MAGRA (ITALY, 2024, 19′)

Friday, October 4, at 5 pm, Cinema Massimo, Screen 3

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Screenplay: Giulia Betti
Production: Associazione Museo Nazionale del Cinema
Executive producers: Luciana Dedola and Valentina Noya per Notte Americana
Photography: Giulia Scintu
Editing: Angela Anzelmo
Music: Gabriele Graham Gasco
Cast: Amanda Rabbia, Giorgia Spinelli, Rita Abela, Alessio Stan

Iris, a mother in her thirties, lives alone with her daughter Lori, a perceptive and vital child, in the suburbs of Turin. Affectionate and complicit, they get by without support other than Iris’s uncertain job: selling poor quality slimming products door-to-door. When Lori is not at school, she helps her mother with the sales. Watching her mother tell lies in order to sell the products, Lori also concocts a deception against a child like her. Faced with this realisation, Iris has to choose between keeping a job that allows them both to survive or setting a better example for her daughter. But it is not an easy decision to make.

Francesca Giuffrida (Turin, Italy, 1991) is a director born and raised in Turin. After studying at DAMS and years of theatre and acting studies, in 2019 she graduated in Film and Television Direction at the Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti in Milan with the short film Mentre Dormi (While You Sleep) and a thesis on the power role of the actor in movies. She immediately left for Rome to work in cinema and entered the world of Casting, working as a Casting Assistant for important Italian productions. The Casting job allows her to be in contact with actors and acting. This is what brought her behind the camera, learning from the Casting Directors and directors she worked with. She is currently working on her first project as a Casting Director. At the same time, she continues working on her projects as an author: in 2020 she wrote, directed and produced the short film Itaca, shot on a Sardinian island and in 2021 she made a short documentary film with the Soroptimist Club on Liana Bortolon, a pioneer of journalism and art critic of the 1960s.

Filmography: Mentre dormi (s.f., 2019), Itaca (s.f., 2020), Liana Bortolon (s.f., 2021, selected by Job Film Days 2021), La vita magra (s.f., 2024).