After having premiered at the Rome Film Festival 2023,
Segnali di Vita arrives in Mazara del Vallo, the film by 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. On May 15th at 8.30pm it will be presented by the director from Agrigento at the Grillo Multiplex Cinema in Mazara del Vallo.
The film won the Laceno D’Oro Audience Award and the Audience Award for Best Feature Film – DAO, Trento Film Festival.
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 Leandro Picarella says: ““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 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 distance from others also became distance from ourselves, it was important for me to tell simple stories of humanity and encounters.”
