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PRESS RELEASE (21/08/2013)
Thursday, August 22, a Loano, the film festival will kick off. “Different Sens-Abilities, promoted by the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano and organized by the I.So THeatre with the artistic direction of Paul Borio.
The subtitle “Caring relationships...caring for relationships.” introduces the theme developed in the three scheduled films. Opening the festival will be the film “It's raining cows.” by Luca Vendruscolo, which will be screened at the 9:30 pm in the’Summer Arena Prince's Garden.
Based on the experience of the director Luca Vendruscolo as a conscientious objector, the world of Ishmael Community residents is portrayed with curiosity and liveliness.
And here is the plot: inside the community for the disabled “Ishmael” in Rome comes, Matteo conscientious objector destined for community service. Here lives a diverse community of disabled people, people destined for conditioning in their daily lives, but nonetheless people with feelings and aspirations. Matteo in the community meets peers and for him begins a constructive experience made up of emergency situations, needs, shifts, and confrontations with a difficult reality.
“I think the basic idea of Raining Cows," explains the director. Luca Vernusco - has been to portray disabled characters as people not determined by their handicap. Usually the handicap is the essential characteristic of the character: his problem is the handicap. I think my characters have many other problems and characteristics and then they are also disabled. But to tell them like that you had to overcome the barriers of modesty around disability. I could never have done it if I had not lived for a year with what were then my actors, learning from themselves how to relate lightly to disability.
And I think I would have written a different film if I had spent less time in the community than I did. Over the course of a year, I learned that you don't need to know theories about various forms of illness or disability: it is not the pathology that describes the person. I learned that there are infinite different “styles” in being disabled. There are people whose personality seems to be determined ninety percent by the disability and people with more severe handicaps that make you forget that you are one, from the very first moment. Then, and this is a pivotal moment, you discover that disabled people are not as the cinema has told them. For those who had been fed the cliché of the disabled person being “good and thoughtful” or “pissed off at the world,” this is a misconception into which you easily fall. Then you discover that we are all a bit disabled. On the last day you also discover how hard it is to leave the place where you have tried not to spend an hour more than you have to for an entire year. And that's also why you make a movie about it.’
The review will continue with “It can be done.” by Giulio Manfredonia (August 23), “Almost Friends” by Olivier Nakache e Éric Toledano (August 24).
L’admission is free.{:}
