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PURE UNKNOWN

SCONOSCIUTI PURI

By Mattia COLOMBO, Valentina CICOGNA

FILM HARBOUR - as SALES

Documentary - Completed 2023

A person who dies without a name is like a story without an ending.

Visions du Réel 2023

Compétition Internationale Longs Métrages

Karlovy Vary IFF 2023

AJB DOCS 2023

Special Mention in the Main Competition

Biografilm 2023

Audience Award, Celebration of Lives Award for Cristina Cattaneo

DMZ DOCS 2023

Special Jury Award in the International Competition

FIPADOC Biarritz 2024

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Documentary, Social issues
- Countries
- ITALY, SWITZERLAND, SWEDEN
- Languages
- ITALIAN, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 93 mn
- Director(s)
- Mattia COLOMBO, Valentina CICOGNA
- Producer(s)
- Sebastiano Luca INSINGA (JUMP CUT), Chiara NICOLETTI (JUMP CUT), Amel SOUDANI (AMKA FILMS PRODUCTIONS), Nicola BERNASCONI, Mario ADAMSON (SISYFOS FILM PRODUCTION)
- Synopsis
- Every night nameless bodies land in Dr. Cristina Cattaneo’s autopsy room. She calls them Pure Unknown.
  
  The Pure Unknown belong to the fringes of society. They are homeless, prostitutes, runaway teenagers. Lately, they have mostly been migrants, rejected by the Mediterranean Sea onto the shores of Italy.
  
  If all rights belong to the living, nothing is left to the dead. So what happens when the dead have lost their identity?
  
  In the face of this growing multitude, no one seems concerned about their right to dignity.
  No one but Cristina.