PIERFRANCESCO LI DONNI

ITALY| 2015 | 69’

Antonio is the president of Afro-Napoli, a team of Neapolitan migrants who are second-generation Italians. Antonio has a dream: to lead his guys into the Federal league. But Lello, Maxime, and Adam don’t have identity documents and the bureaucratic machine stalls on the permits to stay and the certificates of residence. Antonio would do anything to see his team win. The private sphere of the characters  is regulated by the unreal, unsustainable time of the stateless person status but in the collective one you can come face to face with reality, and conquer it.

Pierfrancesco Li Donni was born in Palermo. He studied editing at the Cineteca di Bologna. He worked with Paolo Pisanelli in the film “Ju Tarramutu” and started the first Italian web radio in a mental health center. He has collaborated with Repubblica TV, Sky and made videos for Rai per il Sociale and Fox4dev. Il “Secondo Tempo” and “Sempre Vivi” are respectively his first feature film and the first short– out format: they both tell about the years of the Mafia massacres in Palermo . “Prima Cosa Buongiorno” is his third full-length movie.