WAITING TIME

TEMPO D'ATTESA

By Claudia BRIGNONE

ALPE ADRIA CINEMA - TRIESTE FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

Documentary - Pre-Production 2021

A group of women and Teresa, a
midwife, an experienced and
revolutionary woman, who guides and
supports them during pregnancy. They
discuss the birth of the child they are
carrying in their wombs and the birth
of themselves as new mothers.

    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Female director
    • Countries
    • ITALY
    • Languages
    • ITALIAN
    • Duration
    • 70 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Claudia BRIGNONE
    • Synopsis
    • Future mothers and fathers meet in Naples and trough Teresa, the
      midwife, they question each other, confide in each other and prepare
      for the shocking and incredible event that awaits them.
      Teresa De Pascale, a seventy-year-old woman, white hair wrapped in
      a braid, a slender and minute appearance and a great predisposition
      to listening to and to dialogue. Once a week she organizes open
      groups for women so that they can experience motherhood and
      childbirth in a conscious way and as protagonists, respecting their
      choices, their individualities, their desires and above all respecting
      the new life they will give birth. The women in the circle are all
      different in age and background, for some of them this will be the first
      pregnancy, for others the second…They meet, know each other and
      open up, without too many inhibitions, they dedicate a time, a “waiting
      time”, where everything seems more exciting, dilated, in which fears
      and joys can appear amplified. "During moments of transition it is
      important to have someone who reaches out to us, and this is my job",
      says Teresa. "Labour and childbirth are nothing more than moments
      of transition, once your baby is born, you will never be the same, you
      too will be born with him".
    • Partners & financing
    • Film Commission Regione Campania
    • Beginning of shooting
    • Mar 01, 2022
    • End of shooting
    • Nov 01, 2022