Completed - ITALIAN - Drama, True Story, Documentary - 89 minutes
Intertwining stories of inmates and ex-inmates through the complex labyrinths of freedom.Wretched, desolate and doomed men, who try to expiate their sins and piece together the lives they used to lead.
Year of production : 2015 Director(s) : Valentina ESPOSITO Writer(s) : Valentina ESPOSITO Cast : Pippo DELBONO, Giancarlo PORCACCHIA, Romolo NAPOLITANO, Alessandro BERNARDINI, Sandro VERZILI, Matteo CATENI Producer(s) : Riccardo NERI (Lupin Film), Maurizio ALBANO (Simonfilm)
Article 27 of the Italian Constitution states that the sentence of imprisonment has a precise function of inestimable social value: to support and accompany detainees in a process of re-education and rehabilitation that should enable them, after serving their sentence, to reintegrate socially and professionally in modern society. However society knows very little about this process, and a convict’s arduous path from condemnation to liberation is still conditioned by a vision of prison as a confined space simply used as punishment. The film “Ombre della sera” attempts to recount the difficult process of social and occupational reintegration, and it is the very inmates and ex-inmates of the Rome based prison of Rebibbia who re-inact their return home after so many years of separation.
Country(ies) : ITALY
BAFICI (Buenos Aires) 2016 Human Rights Competition