Pitrè Stories

Pitrè Stories
Director
Alessandro D’Alessandro / Marco Leopardi
Country
Italy
Year
2010
Genre
Documentary
Scriptwriters
Alessandro D’Alessandro / Marco Leopardi / Laura Pettini / Silvia Pettini
Production
Felix Film [IT]
www.felixfilm.it

Storyline

Nico Bonomolo is a young painter and cartoonist from Sicily. When he visits the Ethnographic Museum in Palermo which is closed for restoration, he finds the thousands of objects put together by a physician born in 1841, Giuseppe Pitrè. He follows his steps, feeling the need to confront himself with the reality of his country and meeting many people composing this multicultural island: fisherman, priest, puppeteer, new immigrants…

Festivals & Academy awards and others

FIPA. International Festival of Audiovisual Projects 2011
Creative Documentaries
Medimed 2011
Docs Gallery