PAGANI

By Elisa Flaminia INNO

PARALLELO 41 PRODUZIONI - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2016

What is religion today? In Pagani, a small town around Vesuvio, a community of devotees to The Lady of the Hens keep ancient pagan traditions alive adapting them to a contemporary way.

Festivals
& Awards

Filmmaker Festival 2016
Lovers Film Festival 2016
Cinéma du Réel 2017
Films Femmes Mediterranee 2017
Terre di Cinema 2017
Italian Film Festival Cardiff 2018
    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Art - Culture, Female director
    • Countries
    • ITALY
    • Languages
    • ITALIAN
    • Duration
    • 52 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Elisa Flaminia INNO
    • Producer(s)
    • Antonella DI NOCERA (PARALLELO 41 PRODUZIONI)
    • Synopsis
    • In Pagani, a small town near Pompei, seven days after Easter, people celebrate The Lady of the Hens, a Virgin celebrated with ancestral dances and songs. For thirty days the devout people yove as one in order to perpetrate the Tradition, an event in which all the population participate animated by a faith that becomes memory and transcendence. Fonzino leads the devotees in preparing the Tosello, a little secret baroque temple, that every year is shown to the community the day of the celebration. The wait for the Madonna marks the days preceding the celebration, between the fields’ sowing and the recurrence of folk rituals that mark the moment of transition from a season to another one. Until the day of the Feast, when everything melts into a riot of music and dance in order to achieve a catharsis and the birth of a new springtime.