The growing group of female directors who are breaking the glass ceiling in Italy’s male-dominated film industry is celebrating with a curated series titled The Wave, which opens this week in London and is set to open with Chiara Pelosi’s upcoming drama, The Berlin Panorama “Swing.”
It runs from 15 to 19 June in London Ciné Lumière, Kensington, After a previous run in Berlin, The Wave has been assembled by the promotional arm of Cinecittà to attract international notice of what President Carla Cattani says is a “unique time” for female filmmakers in Italy where they are “no longer isolated cases”. “
In fact, as Kattani noted in her introduction to The Wave program notes, it was very rare prior to 2010 to find more than two Italian films directed by females in the same year. In fact in 2010, out of 122 Italian films released theatrically, only two titles were directed by women.
A decade later, the proportion of Italian feature films directed by women with a theater rating reached 13% in 2019 and 2020, despite the pandemic.
So, Catani said, the idea behind the wave is that these directors “become known before waiting for history to recognize their merits in opening Italian cinema to women.”
London fans will also be able to sample a selection Sponsored by the Head of Programming at Cine Lumiere Diane Gabrisiak, this will let them either reconsider or Discover the early work of some of the most prolific Italian directors working today such as Alice Rohrwacher (“Happy as Lazzaro”) and Susanna Necchiarelli (“Nico, 1988”) Plus a few classics from pioneers Elvira Notari, Lina Wertmüller, and Liliana Cavani, who for decades have been the rare exceptions that have emerged.
Wertmoeller, who died last year, was the first woman to receive a Best Director nomination at the Academy Awards.
“Swing Ride”, a work in Pelosi’s second year about weight gain 15-year-old Benedetta craves attention in an Italian province as she falls in love with the slim, non-binary Amanda.
Other highlights of The Wave in London include Alice Rohrwacher’s Director’s Debut “Heavenly Body” (“Corpo Celeste”) (2011) which takes a quick critique of the indoctrination of the Catholic Church in the south of the country by Observing 13-year-old Marta, who struggles to adapt to life afterwards moving from Switzerland to the southernmost point of Italy; Director Laura Besbury’s “Sworn Virgin” debut, which was titled Transgender, which was a 2015 Best of the Berlinale Competition; And the Maura Delpero’s Mothers (2019), a portrait of motherhood in an Argentine shelter for teenage single mothers run by nuns.
Other highlights include the documentary Ordinary (2019) by Adele Tull, which is about how females and males are represented. Identities are reflected in everyday interactions by capturing some of the most intimate moments in people’s lives. “Flesh Out” (2019) by Michela Ochipenti about a young modern woman who challenges the Mauritanian tradition of arranged marriage; theater manager Emma Dante’s cinematic debut, Street in Palermo, a humorous look at the battle of the wills between two women; And the The first appearance of Susanna Nichiarelli’s The Cosmonaut (2009) was made during the space race between the Soviet Union and the United States.
Chiara Pelosi, Susanna Necchiarelli, Michela Ochipenti, and Maura Delpiero are all expected to present their films and chat after the screenings.
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