Fare Paese (To Be a Village)

In August 2023, a caravan went into the Southern Apennines briefly inhabiting six small towns and building a traveling festival together with those who do not surrender to the abandonment of villages that, depopulated, lose their voices. Fare Paese (To Be a Village) attempts to return a plurality of perspectives; it is a choral tale where the aspirations and fears of those who return meet and clash with those of the ones who never left.

  • Danny Biancardi
    Director
  • Silvia Miola
    Director
  • Marta Violante
    Director
  • Ass. Frange Mobili
    Producer
  • Ass. La Bandita
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Fare Paese
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    45 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    August 31, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    Italian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Distribution Information
  • Associazione La Bandita ETS
    Distributor
    Country: Italy
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Danny Biancardi, Silvia Miola, Marta Violante

The film's three directors are members of La Bandita, a cultural association founded in Palermo by a group of documentary filmmakers. It believes in the value of collective work, produces non-fiction films and develops participatory filmmaking workshops.
Involved as authors in the film are four members of Frange Mobili, a collective for inclusive architecture and territorial regeneration that promotes community development, inclusive processes, and socio-ecological justice practices.

FILMOGRAPHY
Silvia Miola
- Regia di Oscar, 2019, Italia (60')
- Collaborazione alla regia e fotografia de Le mura di Bergamo, 2023, Italia (136')
Danny Biancardi
- Regia di Sparring Partners, 2019 (51')
- Collaborazione alla regia e fotografia de Le mura di Bergamo, 2023, Italia (136')
- Co-regia de Il castello indistruttibile(73’), 2024, ita-fra, Zalab, LA SOCIÉTÉ DU SENSIBLE
Marta Violante
- Co-regia di Africa Bianca, 2020, Italia (23’)
- Collaborazione alla regia e assistente al montaggio de Le mura di Bergamo, 2023, Italia (136')

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Director Statement

A Palermo-based collective of videomakers accompanied the FRAPP cultural festival organized by a collective of researchers, architects and urban planners through six towns in the Southern Apennines. Along the way, the authors constructed dialogues with the communities to intercept an inside look and perspective on the villages, overcoming stereotypical narratives that alternately portray them as places dying of neglect, marginal and poor, or as scenarios for an idealized, bucolic rebirth.