After being premiered at the Rome Film Festival 2023, it arrives in Mazara del Vallo Signs of Life, the film of Leandro Picarella produced by Qoomoon with Rai Cinema, with the co-production of Soap Factory and with the support of Film Commission Vallée d’Aoste and distributed by Qoomoon and SudTitles.
May 15th at 8.30pm will be presented by the director from Agrigento at Grillo Multiplex Cinema in Mazara del Vallo.
The Film is winner of the Laceno D’Oro Public Award and Audience Award for Best Feature Film – DAO, Trento Film Festival.
SYNOPSIS
In Lignan, a village of few souls in the Saint-Barthelemy Valley in the Aosta Valley, an Astronomical Observatory scans the skies every night. Like a bell tower or a lighthouse, the large telescope marks the time of the small mountain community.
In autumn, the astrophysicist Paolo Calcidese moved into the structure as the sole custodian and inhabitant to carry out his scientific research and experiment with new technologies. Due to a technical accident, however, he will be forced to put aside the stars and solitude to dedicate himself to other forms of life not yet considered: human beings.
DIRECTOR’S NOTES
“Signs of Life” is a film about empathy, about the need for others to understand ourselves. Starting from the work of an astrophysicist tasked with creating a questionnaire on false scientific conceptions, the film focuses on his need for relationships, contact and of community It has always been important for me to talk about the reality of the border, convinced that it is precisely in these border lines that we can understand so much about the world in which we live after difficult years, in which the distance from others has also become distance from ourselves , it was important for me to tell simple stories of humanity and encounters.”
Leandro Picarella
LEANDRO PICARELLA
Sicilian director and screenwriter, born in Agrigento. Between 2010 and 2012 he made his first short films. His first feature film Triokala (CSC Production, 2015) received numerous awards in Italy and abroad.
He subsequently wrote and directed Epicentro (Playmaker 2018) premiered at the 75th Venice International Film Festival – Critics’ Week, and Divinazioni (Qoomoon with Rai Cinema) premiered at IDFA in 2020 and released in Italian cinemas in 2021.
Segnali di vita (Qoomoon with Rai Cinema) is his third long documentary.
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