CALABRIA
by Pierre-François Sauter
117 min. / documentary / 2016
CALABRIA is a road movie in a hearse. After the death of a Calabrian emigrant who came to Switzerland to find work, two undertakers, Jovan and José, emigrants themselves, travel from the north to the south of Italy to repatriate the deceased to his home village. Jovan, a gypsy who was singer in Belgrade, believes in life after death, while José, a Portuguese man with a passion for culture, believes only what he sees. Together, all of them face the trip’s surprises and contingencies. Their voyage at once pays tribute to the dead person and celebrates Life.
AWARDS
– Award for Best International Competition Film, Doclisboa 2016 (Lisbon – Portugal)
– Award for Best International Competition Film, FIDBA 2017 (Buenos Aires – Argentina)
– “Big Golden Nanook”, Award for the best film of the festival, Flahertiana 2017 (Perm – Russie)
– Award for Best International Competition Panorama Film, SANFICI 2018 (Santander – Colombia)
– Excellence Award, Feature International Documentary Film, ConstruirCine Festival 2018 (Argentina)
– Special Jury Mention, Visions du Réel 2016 (Nyon – Suisse)
FESTIVALS
– Visions du Réel 2016, Switzerland, International Competition
– Festival de Locarno 2016, Swiss Panorama
– Doclisboa 2016, Lisbon, Portugal
– RIDM 2016 Montréal, Québec, International Competition
– Paraloeil Rimouski, Québec, 2016
– 51e Journées de Soleure 2017, Switzerland, Swiss Panorama
– 4doc Cinema Ideal, Lisbon, Portugal, 2017
– Porto/Post/Doc, Hà Filmes Na Baixa!, Porto, Portugal, 2017
– 14e DocumentaMadrid 2017, Spain, International Competition
– Beldocs, International Documentary Film Festival 2017, Belgrade, Serbia
– 57th Krakow Film Festival 2017, Poland, Film Festivals Award Winners
– Extensoes Doclisboa’16, Torres Vedras 2017, Portugal
– Festival International “Etonnants Voyageurs” 2017, France
– Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris, 2017
– Rencontres du film documentaire 2017, Mellionnec, France
– Atlantida Film Festival 2017, filmin.es
– Fünf Seen Filmfestival 2017, Germany, International Competition
– FIDBA 2017, Buenos-Aires International Doc Film Festival, Argentina, International Competition
– Open City Documentary Festival 2017, London, England
– CineMigrante 2017, Buenos Aires, Argentina
– Flahertiana IDFF 2017, Russia, International Competition
– Vilnius Documentary Film Festival 2017, Lithuania, Main Programm
– Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2017, Japan, International Competition
– Theater 0053, Sagaé, Japan, 2017
– Festival de Cine Europeo en el Perú 2017, Lima, Peru
– “Kings of Docs” 2017, Strasbourg, France
– Astra Film Festival 2017, Romania, International Competition
– Cabo-Verde International Film Festival 2017, Cape Verde, International Competition
– Sofia Independent Film Festival 2017, Bulgaria, International Competition
– Zumzeig Cinema, Barcelona, Spain, 2017
– European Film Festival 2017, Amman, Jordan
– Forumdoc.bh 2017, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, International Competition
– Sanfici 2018, Santander Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente, Colombia
– Doc Fortnight 2018: MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media, New York, USA
– Semaine de la Francophonie 2018, Milan, Italy
– Festival Cinema Svizzero di Venezia 2018, Italy
– Hiroshima City Cinematographic and AV Library, Japan, 2018
– Construir Cine, Labor International Film Festival 2018, Argentina, International Competition
– Urban Cinema Saint-Gilles, Bruxelles, Belgium, 2018,
– Traces-Migrations 2018, Le Chambon Feugerolles, France
– ROGumentary 2018, Ljubljana, Slovenia
– Other Movie Lugano Film Festival 2019, Switzerland
– Festival du Film Résistances, Foix, France, 2019
– Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Helvetica Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan, 2019
– Centre National de l’Audiovisuel, Cinéma Starlight, Dudelange, Luxembourg, 2019
– Cycle de Films sur les saisonniers en Suisse, Fonction : Cinéma, Genève, 2019
– Filmatique Talents 2020, filmatique.com
– Lo Grand Baou, Vertosan, Valle d’Aosta, 2020
– Festival de Narrativas Cuéntalo, Logroño, Spain, 2020
– Kings of Doc Expanded, B-ware! Ladenkino, Berlin, 2020
– Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico, Conmemorando a nuestros muertos, 2021
– Cinémathèque Suisse, Cycle: Italian immigration in Switzerland, 2021
– Camera a Sud festival, TIP cinema theatre, Lamezia Terme, iItaly, 2023
MOVIE RELEASE
Summer 2017 in German-speaking Switzerland
Fall 2017 in French-speaking Switzerland
Fall 2018 in Argentina, Premiere at cinema Cosmos UBA, Buenos Aires
PRESS
Press kit
(to download photos and documents, please ask us the password)
Articles (selection)
– Décadrages – entretien avec PF Sauter (fr)
– SRF (de)
– Le Temps (fr)
– Kinoscope.org (engl)
– Cinelapsus.com (it)
– Sintieriselvaggi.it (it)
– 24 heures (fr)
– Film-documentaire.fr (fr)
– Cineuropa (engl)
– Panorama-cinema.com (fr)
– 24 heures (fr)
– Filmexplorer.ch (it)
– Espalhafactos.com (pt)
– Expresso (pt)
– Diaro de Noticias (pt)
– Das Kulturmagazin (de)
– Filmbulletin (de)
– CineFreaks (esp)
– CineFreaks Entrevista (esp)
– Danro (jpn)
FILM CREW
With Jovan Nikolic and José Russo Baião
Written and directed by : Pierre-François Sauter
DOP : Joakim Chardonnens, Pierre-François Sauter
Sound : Patrick Becker, Masaki Hatsui
Picture editing : Anja Bombelli
Sound editing : Jérôme Cuendet
Sound design : Étienne Curchod
Production : Nadejda Magnenat, Le Laboratoire Central, Hercli Bundi, Mira Film.
In coproduction with RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, documentary unit.
With the financial support of the Federal Office of Culture, Cinéforom and Loterie Romande, Zürcher Filmstiftung, Fonds culturel Suissimage, Succès Passage Antenne, Succès Cinéma.
Project development supported by a grant from the Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA)
(working title : En chair et en os)
