LA FOLLA NEL CUORE

THE CROWD IN THE HEART

By Isabella MARI

VISIONI DAL MONDO - as FEST

Documentary - Development 2023

The women of Forcella (a neighbourhood with a high crime rate in the heart of Naples), are mothers, wives, sisters; they are housewives, carers and maids. And yet, when they step onto a theatre stage they become anything they have ever wanted to be.

Festivals
& Awards

Visioni dal Mondo 2021
Pitching Visioni Incontra
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Female director
    • Countries
    • ITALY
    • Languages
    • ITALIAN
    • Duration
    • 70 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Isabella MARI
    • Writer(s)
    • Isabella MARI, Marina RIPPA
    • Producer(s)
    • Antonella DI NOCERA (PARALLELO 41 PRODUZIONI)
    • Synopsis
    • The Crowd in the Heart is a story of fortitude told through the eyes of the women of Forcella.
      These women participate in a theatre course lead by Marina Rippa. Over the years, the course has become a safehaven and also an imaginative journey for them: a place where they can meet and talk; where they tell their stories and open up to each other, without the baggage of family and social duties, safe in the knowledge that they are sheltered from spying and judging eyes.The workshop is the place of mutual care and solidarity, intimacy and sisterhood, the same that Marina has given by shaping a work group, without ever asking for anything in return.
    • Partners & financing
    • ESTIMATED BUDGET € 120.000
      FINANCING IN PLACE € 66.000 (REGIONE CAMPANIA SLATE + TAX CREDIT +
      FEMMINILE PLURALE)
      GAP FINANCING € 54.000
    • Production schedule
    • LOOKING FOR PRE-ACQUISITION / CO-PRODUCTION
    • Beginning of shooting
    • Jan 09, 2022
    • End of shooting
    • Jan 31, 2023