terra di tutti film festival
Documentaries and social cinema exhibition
8th edition | 8-12 october 2014
TOUS MES ENFANTS
Gianpaolo Bigoli | Italy | 2014 | 29'
Burkina Faso - Agnes and Rachel have accepted the challenge and every day carry out an intense and silent revolution. There are revolutions made of screams and brutal gestures, others need time and love. Two Burkinabè women, with their life choices, become the driving force of change so that the children of HIV-positives born healty and premature can live. Agnes, nurse, chooses to take care of premature infants in a land where infections cause premature births, and where an ancient belief assigns to the children underweight a scripted destiny. Her challenge is intertwined with that of Rachel, HIV-positive mother determined to educate women to prevent transmission of the virus to their babies during pregnancy.
Gianpaolo Bigoli began working as an author of short films in 2001. After graduating in 2005, he attended the training school of Ermanno Olmi “Ipotesi Cinema” in Bologna. Having met this great director and worked in some of his movies, he is influenced by Olmi's “cinema of reality” . Since 2006 he has worked as a writer and director, working with various indipendent production companies. In 2008 he founded the production company Wendy Film. He has realized several documentaries and international reportage.