Piccola patria

Small homeland
Director
Alessandro Rossetto
Country
Italy
Year
2013
Genre
Drama
Scriptwriters
Alessandro Rossetto, Maurizio Braucci, Caterina Serra
Cast
Maria Roveran, Vladimir Doda, Lucia Mascino, Mirko Artuso, Giulio Brogi, Diego Ribon, Nicoletta Maragno, Roberta Da Soller, Mateo Çili, Valerio Mazzuccato
Production
Arsenali Medicei Cinematografica, Jump Cut

Storyline

Set in northern Italy, this movie depicts a love-story, prejudices and racism mixing together documentary and fiction’s characteristics to describe a reality strictly linked to this territory.
In the three main characters, two local girls and a same age Albanese guy, integrated in the local society, coexist the willing of becoming rich together with strong loving and friendship emotions.
The movie is inspired to a real-life story and describes different hopes, deceit and blackmail undergoing between youths and adults, fathers and sons, as well as between lovers, unaware friends and the community in which they live in.

Festivals & Academy awards and others

Venice Film Festival 2013
Orizzonti