Father's Land
TITLE
Father’s Land
DIRECTOR
Francesco Di Gioia
COUNTRY
Italy
YEAR
2021
DURATION
11′
GENRE
Documentary
Father's Land
1910s. Poems with alternate rhymes narrate a journey by sea and by rail. These are the verses of Fadil Hasin Ash-Shalmani who witness a historical fact often forgotten: the deportation of numerous civilians during the first years of the Italian occupation in Libya.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Francesco Di Gioia
Francesco Di Gioia (Gorizia, 1993) obtained a degree (Hons) from the Milan Polytechnic in Communication Design, after which he began a course at the Civic School Luchino Visconti in Documentary Filmmaking. During this course, he had the opportunity to co-direct the documentary short film Cast Iron Days (2018). Since 2019 he has been studying video editing at the Experimental Center of Cinematography in Rome. In 2020 he approaches found-footage cinema by making the short film Fathers' Land (2021)
- Director Francesco Di Gioia
- Screenplay Francesco Di Gioia
- Cinematography Francesco Di Gioia
- EditingFrancesco Di Gioia
- Cast Yousri Manoubi
- Producer/s Giusy Gulino
- Production Company Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
- Distributor/s Premiere Film
- Project Title Father's Land
- Project Type Documentary
- Completion Date December 24, 2021
- Country of origin Italy
- Country of filming Libya
- Language Arabic
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student Project Yes
Francesco Di Gioia
Francesco Di Gioia (Gorizia, 1993) obtained a degree (Hons) from the Milan Polytechnic in Communication Design, after which he began a course at the Civic School Luchino Visconti in Documentary Filmmaking. During this course, he had the opportunity to co-direct the documentary short film Cast Iron Days (2018). Since 2019 he has been studying video editing at the Experimental Center of Cinematography in Rome. In 2020 he approaches found-footage cinema by making the short film Fathers' Land (2021)
Tirana International Film Festival
Student Documentary Competition, 2022
