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ALLA SALUTE

By Brunella FILÌ

Social issues - Completed 2018

Alla Salute: Can one be happy despite being gravely ill?

Festivals
& Awards

BIOGRAFILM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2018

WINNER AUDIENCE AWARD

BIOGRAFILM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2018

WINNER LIFETALES AWARD

TIRANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2018

HotDocs International Documentary Festival 2019

Audience Pick Made in Italy

Thessaloniki IFF 2019

Food

Houston Worldfest 2020

WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Social issues, True Story, Documentary
- Countries
- ITALY
- Languages
- ITALIAN, ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 75 mn
- Director(s)
- Brunella FILÌ
- Writer(s)
- Antonella GAETA
- Cast
- Nick DIFINO
- Producer(s)
- Brunella FILÌ (OFFICINEMA DOC SRLS), Ines VASILJEVIC (Nightswim)
- Synopsis
- Charismatic and handy with a persimmon, food presenter Nicola had a career that was taking off. His cooking series ‘Breakfast Club’, featuring vegan, vegetarian and traditional Italian dishes, had barely gone online when a most unexpected diagnosis hit: cancer.
  Food had already inspired his motto, “Happiness can be found everywhere…It’s better if you find it at the table.” But his recipe now had to guide the shell-shocked Difino on a deeper search for meaning.
  Part interview, part cooking lesson, part road trip, Alla Salute seeks out interviewing five famous Italian chefs, poet and philosopher (friends of Nick) to share their thoughts about life’s greater purpose— while they cook the dishes their dear friend craves, but he can’t eat because of the therapies. Combining their culinary demonstrations with Difino’s video diary of cancer treatment, the film asks whether a person can be truly happy despite being gravely ill. Somewhere between plates of eggplant parmesan and golden panzerotti with wild broccoli, filmmaker Brunella Filì turns up unexpected answers.