IL MIO CORPO

By Michele PENNETTA

LIGHTDOX - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2020

Under the harsh Sicilian sunlight everything seems to separate a young Oscar, collecting scrap metal for his father, and devout Nigerian migrant Stanley, except the feeling of being thrown into the world and a desire to emancipate.

Festivals
& Awards

ACID 2020
Film Fest Gent 2020
Official Selection: New Voices
Busan IFF 2020
Wide Angle
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • SWITZERLAND, ITALY
    • Languages
    • ITALIAN
    • Duration
    • 80 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Michele PENNETTA
    • Producer(s)
    • Joëlle BERTOSSA (CLOSE UP FILMS), Giovalli POMPILI (KINO PRODUZIONI)
    • Synopsis
    • Oscar, not quite a child anymore, scavenges for scrap metal for his father. He spends his life in improvised landfills among what remains of leftovers. Worlds apart, yet close-by, there is Stanley. He tidies the church in exchange for a monetised hospitality, picks fruits, herds sheep: anything that keep his foreign body busy. Oscar, the young Sicilian, and Stanley the Nigerian don’t seem to have much in common. Except for the feeling of being thrown into the world, to suffer the same refusal, the same overwhelming wave of choices imposed on them by others.