SÒNE:
Daniel Kemény / Switzerland / 2020 / 75 min / Colour
The town of Pietrapaola, in Calabria, once had more than twenty thousand inhabitants. Today only a few remain, no more than two hundred souls. Swiss director Daniel Kemény returns to the place where he spent his childhood to walk through the streets, porticoes and stone stairways of his memory after an absence of twenty years. He has made a collective film that frames the looks and faces of those who remained and who still live, breathe and play, animating the life of the village. Made over seven years of work and filming, in close collaboration with the inhabitants, Sòne tells of an imagined and real place and time that opens its way into the present with the power of images and popular music.
Daniel Kemény
Daniel Kemény, born in 1981, is a Swiss artist and documentary filmmaker from Pietrapaola, Calabria. After studying Art and Sculpture at the Art Academy in Berlin (KHB), the ASFA Fine Arts School in Athens and the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, he presented his works and video installations in numerous international art and cultural institutions. In 2010 he started working on film and documentary projects. Sòne (2020) was presented at Visions du Réel - International Film Festival Nyon.
Credits
Screenplay Daniel KeményCinematography Carlotta Holy-SteinemannEditing Maria Iovine, Giorgia VillaMain cast Nicola Gentile, Tonino Talarico, Daniel Kemény, Salvatore Pugliese (Turuzzu), Claudio Callera (Panciolino), Giovanni Porro, Diego Romeo, Nicola Iattula, Salvatore Vitale, Tury Band, Aquilina AbbateProduction company ANT!DOTE Sales llc