terra di tutti film festival
Documentaries and social cinema exhibition
7th edition | 8-13 october 2013
IL SOLE DENTRO
Paolo Bianchini | Italy | 2012 | 100' | out of competition
"Il sole dentro" tells the story of a long journey, the one of Yaguine and Fodè, two Guinean teenagers who have written on behalf of all children and young Africans a letter addressed "To their Excellencies the members and leaders of Europe" and aimed at asking for help for schools, food and health care. With the letter in their pocket, Yaguine and Fodè hide in the truck compartment of a plane to Brussels, so begins their remarkable journey that intersects with the story of another trip, this time from Europe to Africa, which occurred ten years later, made by two other teenagers and a balloon.
Paolo Bianchini, since 2002 Unicef Ambassador, starts his career as assistant director of the most important Italian directors: among them Luigi Zampa, Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Vittorio De Sica, Edoardo De Filippo. Scriptwriter of "Ad ogni costo", hereafter he focuses on advertisement as a director. Back to cinema, he realizes Tv movies and series collaborating with Rai. In 2006 he founds Società Alveare Cinema together with Paola Rota.
In collaboration with Schermi e Lavagne
Schermi e Lavagne is a project organized and promoted by the Cineteca of Bologna with the purpose of educating children and teenagers from the School to the University to the audiovisual. For each age group there is a varied program of activities aiming at forming conscious and passionate spectators, capable to move through the forest of images in which we are immersed every day with appropriate judgment skills and critical autonomy.