"The Road of our Fathers"
The story of Our Fathers’ Roads centres around a family of farmers who live in Montella in the Monti Picentini in the province of Avellino, cattle ranchers suspended between past and present.
Felice Moscariello is the most senior, Massimo is his eldest son and Manuel is his grandson.
Three generations facing today’s present, where their traditions seem to have less and less importance.
The documentary expresses the strength of family ties, but not only blood ties amongst the nuclear family. The Moscariello family also includes friends and colleagues, all active participants in the team.
These people have a lot in common, but above all they share a strong bond with the traditions and history of their forefathers. This link remerges twice every year when they travel the 130 kilometres with the Moscariello herd towards pastures in Puglia in the winter and mountain pastures in Irpinia in the summer.
Even with today’s GPS technology and the fact that they can travel short distances in cars to get a bit of rest, the Transhumance is still very similar to how it was it was done even before the birth of Christ.
Kilometre for kilometre, the Moscariello’s Transhumance cattle drive is one of the longest in Europe, an ecosystem in movement.
Because it’s not easy to keep an eye on 250 free-range Podolica cattle, the trip, made on foot, is done in a group. However, in their own way, each participant also makes an interior voyage through their memories and personal history, and maybe even, unintentionally, a wider, more generic human history. The same gestures are repeated and the same territory crossed as they sometimes suffer the cold, sometimes the heat, just like those that walked these roads before them.
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bruno palmaDirector
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bruno palmaWriter
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bruno palmaProducer
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Project Type:Documentary
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Runtime:29 minutes 32 seconds
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Completion Date:June 17, 2022
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Country of Origin:Italy
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Country of Filming:Italy
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Language:Italian
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Shooting Format:4k
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Aspect Ratio:16.9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
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Festival internazionale del cinema di Salernosalerno
Italy
best Italian documentary -
Vision 2030Noto (SR)
Italy
Premio UNPLI/Premio Isola del Cinema -
Brussels International Film Festival - BIFF Brussels International Film Festival - BIFFBruxelles
Best short documentary
Bruno Palma was born in 1973. In 2005, he founded the production company Digitalchroma srl, which specialized in production and post for advertising. Storytelling becomes the standard release valve to express one’s creativity and specializes in the production of documentaries, industrial films, television formats, short films and video clips.
He has worked for the Sator International Group and has received several career awards as author and / or director for documentaries, video art and web series.