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mediaTREE produzioni in association with ROUGH CAT in co-production with RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera

present

STELLA CIAO a documentary film by Vito Robbiani

DCP 60ʼ OV Italian, English, French, German, Spanish German/French subtitles

world premiere:

25.01.2015 / 12 AM / Landhaus 27.01.2015 / 2:30 PM / Landhaus

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SINOSSI Silvio, 50 anni di origine sarda, amante della musica jazz e del karaoke, è il gerente dello “Stella dʼOro”, un ristorante con alloggio costruito più di 100 anni fa sulle sponde svizzere del Lago Maggiore. Da qualche tempo la struttura ospita, oltre ai sempre più rari turisti, anche dei richiedenti lʼasilo. Lʼedificio ha però i giorni contati, minacciato da un progetto edilizio per un nuovo complesso residenziale. Nellʼattesa, i giorni che rimangono sono segnati dallo scorrere della vita, in un luogo dove sʼincrociano storie e sogni di persone di culture e origini diverse. STELLA CIAO è il ritratto dellʼultimo anno e mezzo di esistenza di un luogo particolare, uno spaccato di vita unico e irripetibile, colto poco prima della sua distruzione...

SYNOPSIS Fifty-year-old, Sardinian-born Silvio – a lover of jazz music and karaoke shows – manages the “Stella dʼOro” boarding house. Built on the Swiss side of Lake Maggiore more than a hundred years ago, the place has been accommodating less and less tourists, and a few asylum seekers. But its days are numbered: it is threatened by a property restoration project for a new private housing estate. Its few remaining days depict the passing of life in a place of encounter for the stories and dreams of people coming from different locations and cultures. STELLA CIAO is the portrait of the last year and a half in the existence of a peculiar place, a unique slice of life as it was seized right before its destruction.

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NOTE DELLʼAUTORE La pensione Stella dʼOro è stata, durante i suoi due ultimi anni di esistenza, un vero e proprio microcosmo, un formicaio brulicante di vita dove si sono incontrati uomini e donne di paesi e culture diverse, tutti in transito. Silvio, il gerente di cinquantʼanni, arrivato dalla Sardegna, ha lavorato una vita per iniziare unʼattività tutta sua; Maria, la donna delle pulizie portoghese che ha lasciato la sua terra dʼorigine per cercare lavoro; i richiedenti lʼasilo, con il loro carico di vicende personali, di sofferenze, di speranze; i turisti, ognuno con la propria origine e le proprie aspettative. E non da ultimi i residenti di Tenero, i fedeli clienti del ristorante-pensione che animavano il locale durante le serate dedicate al jazz e al karaoke che Silvio era solito organizzare.

La decisione di accettare gli asilanti è stata per Silvio una scelta non facile. Ma il timore di vedersi un giorno le ruspe arrivare in giardino, e la progressiva diminuzione della clientela, hanno contribuito a convincerlo. Inaspettatamente questi nuovi ospiti gli hanno dato un nuovo slancio e un ruolo diverso da quello del semplice gerente. Anche loro, proprio come successe a lui 35 anni prima, sono arrivati in Svizzera cercando una vita migliore.

“Stella Ciao” ha molteplici livelli di narrazione. Le “modine” che svettavano sulla pensione sono lʼannuncio di una fine imminente, e sono in relazione con gli asilanti in attesa di una risposta riguardo al proprio futuro in Svizzera. Per il territorio, con la chiusura e la distruzione del palazzo, è invece il ricordo materiale di un passato centenario ad essere finito in polvere. Una struttura che ha ospitato i viandanti diretti in Italia che ad inizio novecento si fermavano con la diligenza. Un albergo che fu acquistato da uno zio delle ultime due proprietarie, quando rientrò dalla California ricco e pieno dʼidee.

Le vicissitudini della Stella dʼOro sono lʼesempio di un paese in totale contraddizione, che se da un lato investe massicciamente nel mattone, spesso degradando il paesaggio, dallʼaltro non vuole accogliere nuovi cittadini, soprattutto se non sono dei buoni contribuenti.

Al posto dellʼalbergo Stella d'Oro, e nel resto dei terreni circostanti destinati a piano di quartiere dal Comune di Tenero, sorgerà uno degli ennesimi progetti residenziali “high standing” (160 appartamenti). Spazi dʼabitazione destinati probabilmente anche a stranieri, ma costruiti da imprenditori svizzeri.

Il nostro è un paese che non sa bene cosa fare con chi bussa alla sua porta e che per indecisione li parcheggia ai margini, laddove non arrecano troppo disturbo. Una nazione che dimentica di essere stata costruita da stranieri (vedi votazione contro lʼimmigrazione di massa), e che dissolve le proprie radici e i propri paesaggi sullʼaltare del profitto. Quello dell'edilizia forsennata è, in Ticino e in Svizzera, un tema molto sentito, basti pensare alle recenti votazioni sulle residenze secondarie.

Una società che si è abituata ad accettare lo sconvolgimento del proprio territorio, che inevitabilmente sconvolgerà il nostro vivere e il nostro essere animali sociali.

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DIRECTORʼS NOTES In its last two years of existence, the Stella dʼOro boarding house turned into a genuine microcosm, a swarming anthill where several men and women in transit had the chance to meet. They all came from different countries and cultures: Silvio, the fifty-year-old, Sardinian-born manager who had been working lifelong to run his own business; Maria, the Portuguese cleaning lady who had left her home country in search of a job; the asylum seekers with their burden of personal history, suffering, and hope; the tourists with their origins and expectations. Last but not least, the local people from Tenero, the loyal customers of small hotel who filled the venue during the jazz or karaoke nights Silvio used to organize.

The decision to accept asylum seekers had not been easy for Silvio: he was only persuaded by the decrease in customer numbers and the fear he would find bulldozers in his garden one day. But his new guests unexpectedly provided him with a new impulse and a new role, which was not that of a simple manager anymore, for they came to Switzerland in search of a better life, just like he had done 35 years before.

“Stella Ciao” features multiple narrative layers. The “modine” (i.e., pole-like structures that outline the amount of space that will be occupied by a future building) that ominously tower on the building announce that its end is coming, and they are connected to the asylum seekers waiting for an answer as to their future in Switzerland. The closing down and the demolition of the building also mean that a physical memory of a century-long local experience will be entirely destroyed. The place used to host coach travellers going to Italy in the early twentieth century, and was bought by one of its latest ownerʼs uncle when he came back from California as a rich and resourceful man.

The vicissitudes of the “Stella dʼOro” epitomize the stark contradictions of a country where building investments are massive – even though often to the detriment of the Swiss landscape – but where new citizens are not welcome, especially if they are not going to be great taxpayers.

The umpteenth high standing private estate will replace the boarding house with 160 flats that will probably accommodate foreigners, too, but that will have been built by Swiss contractors.

Our country tends to marginalize those who come knocking on our door and put them in places where they do not bother us too much. We do that out of indecision, for we do not really know what to do with them. Our land is forgetting that it has been built by foreigners (see what happened on the occasion of the poll against mass immigration) and it is erasing its roots and landscape in favour of sheer gain. The construction industry frenzy is a popular discussion issue in Switzerland and the Ticino area: it is enough to think of the recent poll about second homes.

Swiss society has gotten used to the disarray of its territory, which will inevitably upset our social and existential ways.

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TECHNICAL CREDITS

directed by Vito Robbiani research and story editing Mario Fabio camera Vito Robbiani assistant director Gioele Di Stefano

editor Samir Samperisi sound editor Riccardo Studer

premix Marco Monti original music Sandro Schneebeli color grading Mauro Boscarato - Amaranta Pictures

sound mix Riccardo Studer @ PIC FILM studio steadicam operator Ariel Salati

sound recordings Adriano Schrade graphics and finalization Gioele Di Stefano

produced by Nicola Bernasconi

co-produced by RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera RSI project editor Silvana Bezzola

made with the support of Repubblica e Cantone Ticino Fondo FilmPlus della Svizzera italiana Fonds de production télévisuelle s.à.r.l. Office féderal de la culture - aide au

traitement

original version Italian, English, German, French, Spanish subtitles German/French, English

running time 60ʼ55ʼʼ color / b&w color

shooting format SONY EX1 & SONY PMW-200 screening formats DCP, ProRes 422 file

screen ratio 16:9 sound 5.1 + stereo

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DIRECTORʼS BIO/FILMOGRAPHY

VITO ROBBIANI Born in 1972, Swiss and Italian nationality. After university held in Nice (France) in Communication Science and Information, started working as a journalist and then as a filmmaker. Through his production company, mediaTREE, has collaborated with several European networks, in particular: Swiss TV (RSI), Euronews, alphaTV-Greece, RTVslovenia, RAI. He teaches audiovisual techniques and documentary at the University of Applied Sciences in Lugano-Switzerland (SUPSI). He is a member of the central committee of the Swiss Federation of Journalists (impressum). Filmography as director (Independent productions only) 2015 STELLA CIAO (documentary, 60 min.) Produced by mediaTREE produzioni, in association with ROUGH CAT, co-produced by RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera. World premiere: 50. Solothurn Film Festival, official selection Prix du Public 2013 PER L'AMOR DI DIO - FOR GOD'S SAKE (documentary, 70 min.) Produced by mediaTREE produzioni Festivals: Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels - Biarritz 2011 SORELLE DʼITALIA co-directed with Lorenzo Buccella (documentary, 78 min.) Produced by mediaTREE and Amka Films Productions. Festivals: Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels - Biarritz, Visions du réel - Nyon, Festival Le Voci dellʼInchiesta - Pordenone, Visioni Italiane - Bologna, Doc in Tour - Emilia Romagna, Festival Filmtage - Bolzano, Internationales Film Festival - Innsbruck, Other Movie Film Festival - Lugano 2008 NOI DELLA VALLE - THE VALLEY BUNCH co-directed with Roberto Guidi (doc, 60 min.) Produced by mediaTREE produzioni.

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PRODUCERʼS BIO/FILMOGRAPHY

NICOLA BERNASCONI Born in Bern, Switzerland, in 1973. Grew up in Lugano. Education: Linguistic maturity; Humanistic studies at the University of Lausanne; Bachelor in Communication Sciences at the University of Lugano; studies in Film Production at the Film School of Milan, Italy. Started working in cinema as production assistant in 1996, then worked as freelance production manager and independent producer in Italy & Switzerland from 2002 until 2005. From 2006 until 2012 worked as assistant and Jr. producer at ventura film, well known production company based in the south of Switzerland. Since January 2013 returned to work as freelance production manager and executive producer. In 2014 has founded the film production company ROUGH CAT sagl, based in Lugano. Filmography as producer STELLA CIAO documentary film by Vito Robbiani (60ʼ, CH 2015) Produced by mediaTREE produzioni, in association with ROUGH CAT, co-produced by RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera; World premiere: 50. Solothurn Film Festival, official selection Prix du Public 17 ANNI (Age 17) short film by Filippo Demarchi (22ʼ, CH 2013); produced with Cinédokké / co-produced by ECAL and RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera; Nomination for best short at the Swiss Cinema Prize 2014; Selected at many intl. festivals such as Palm Springs, Premiers Plans Angers, Tous Ecrans Geneva, OVEST (West) short film by Giorgio Carella (25ʼ, I/CH 2005); co-produced with Cameracar Filmsandprojects.

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INFO & CONTACTS mediaTREE produzioni sagl Vito Robbiani via Sole 2 - 6942 Savosa t: +41 79 221 41 85 [email protected] www.mediatree.com ROUGH CAT sagl Nicola Bernasconi via Ciseri 3 - 6900 Lugano t: +41 91 911 97 04 m: +41 76 349 38 71 [email protected] www.roughcat.ch LINKS OFFICIAL TRAILER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiAHaQJ84oQ&feature=youtu.be&list=PLpr2lS8c-lq70jSl--7CYkcCBJ3Gb3E85 FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/docstellaciao WEBSITE http://www.mediatree.com/video/stella/