Padre

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Padre.

Giulia has just lost her father, the great music composer Giulio Fontana. Through music he contacts her from the other dimension and leads her to an initiation into the invisible world.

Director.

With studies in Italy, Switzerland and Australia, Giada Colagrande began her career in video art, making documentaries on contemporary art and short fiction. In 2001, she presented her first feature Open My Heart (Aprimi il cuore) at the Venice Film Festival. After this first work, she directed other feature films such as Before it Had a Name (The Black Widow, 2005), presented at the San Sebastian Festival and at the Venice Film Festival; A Woman (2010), starring Willem Dafoe and premiered in Venice; Bob Wilson’s Life & Death of Marina Abramovic, a documentary about the opera directed by Bob Wilson, and based on the biography of Marina Abramovic, starring Marina Abramovic, Bob Wilson, Willem Dafoe and Antony Hegarty. Her collaboration with the this artist continued also in The Abramovic Method (2013). In 2014, she plays in Abel Ferrara Pasolini and in Castello Cavalcanti, a short film directed by Wes Anderson.

Details.

  • Title
    Padre
  • Rights
    Festivals, Sales
  • Country
    Italy
  • Year
    2016
  • Length
    90′, col.

  • Director 
    Giada Colagrande
  • Screenplay
    Giada Colagrande,
    Claudio Colombo
  • Editing
    Cristina Flamini
  • Photography
    Tommaso Borgstrom

  • Sound
    Simone Altana, Pierpaolo Caputo,
    Pino Pischetola, Patrizio Simonini
  • Music
    Franco Battiato,
    Carlo Guaitoli
  • Costume Design
    Loredana Buscemi

  • Cast
    Giada Colagrande, Willem Dafoe,
    Franco Battiato, Marina Abramovic
  • Producer
    Gaia Furrer
  • Production
    Bidou Pictures


  • Morelia International Film Festival 2016 – Special Screenings
  • Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival 2016
  • Casa del Cinema Roma 2016
  • Lucca Film Festival e Europa Cinema 2017
  • FICCI Cuenca International Film Festival 2017
  • AlchimiAlchimie San Leo 2017
  • Le Corti dell’Imperatore Gioia del Colle 2017
  • Fondazione Brescia Musei – Cinema Nuovo Eden 2017
  • Panama International Film Festival 2018 – International Portal
  • Pesaro International Film Festival 2018
  • Pesaro Incognita 2018
  • Spazio Oberdan – Cineteca di Milano 2018
  • Nuovo Cinema Aquila Roma 2018
  • Regent Street Cinema London 2018
  • Bari International Gender Film Festival / Anche Cinema 2018
  • Cinema Teatro Alkestis Cagliari 2018
  • Spazio Alfieri Firenze 2018
  • Cinque Terre Film Festival 2018 – Closing title
  • Cinema Teatro Orione Bologna 2018
  • Cinema Jolly Catania 2018
  • UK Film Festival London 2018
  • Cinema Moretta Alba 2018
  • Roxy Cinema Tribeca New York 2018
  • Nuovo Cinema Méliès Perugia 2019
  • Centre of Contemporary Art Torun 2019
  • Women International Film Festival Islamabad 2019
  • Piccolo Cinema Torino 2019
  • Monteverdi Tuscany Sarteano 2019
  • Cinema Farnese Rome 2019
  • Cineteca Nacional Mexico City 2019
  • Mangiacinema San Secondo Parmense 2022



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