GREATER ADRIA
LA CHIMERA
DIRECTOR: Alice Rohrwacher
COUNTRY: Italy, France, Switzerland
YEAR/DURATION: 2023. • 130′
drama
Info
- SCREENPLAY: Alice Rohrwacher
- CINEMATOGRAPHY: Hélène Louvart
- EDITOR: Nelly Quettier
- COSTUME DESIGN: Loredana Buscemi
- CAST: Josh O’Connor, Carol Duarte, Vincenzo Nemolato, Alba Rohrwacher, Isabella Rossellini, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, Gian Piero Capretto, Ramona Fiorini, Luca Gargiullo, Giuliano Mantovani, Melchiorre Pala, Yile Vianello, Carlo Tarmati, Julia Pandolfo
- PRODUCER: Carlo Cresto-Dina
- PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Tempesta Film (Italy), Ad Vitam Production (France), Amka Films Production (Switzerland)
- CO-PRODUCERS: Paolo Del Brocco, Alexandra Henochsberg, Pierre-François Piet, Gregory Gajos, Michela Pini, Amel Soudani, Olga Lamontanara
- DISTRIBUTION: MCF MegaCom Hrvatska
Synopsis
Everyone has their own chimera, something they try to attain but never manage to find. For the band of tombaroli, thieves of ancient Etruscan tombs and hidden archaeological wonders in 1980s Tuscany, chimera means salvation from work and the dream of easy wealth. For Arthur, chimera looks like the woman he lost, Beniamina. To find her, Arthur challenges the invisible, searches far and wide and goes inside the earth – in search of the door to the afterlife related in myths. In a magical realist journey between the living and the dead, the intertwined destinies of these characters unfold.
Festivals and awards
Cannes Film Festival 2023 – nomination for the Palme d’Or, AFCAE Award
Chicago International Film Festival 2023 – Silver Hugo for Best Cinematography, Silver Hugo for Best Ensemble Performance
European Film Awards 2023 – Best Production Designer
Valladolid International Film Festival 2023 – Silver Spike for Film
Teluride Film Festival 2023 – Silver Medallion Award (Alice Rohwacher)
Sarajevo Film Festival 2023
Motovun Film Festival: Cinehill–2023
Trailer
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About the director
Alice Rohrwacher
The leading figure of Italian auteur cinema, Alice Rohrwacher wrote and directed her first feature film Heavenly Body in 2011. It screened at the Directors’ Fortnight and won the Nastro d’Argento. In 2014, she returned to Cannes, this time in Competition, with her second feature The Wonders, which won the Grand Prix. Competing again in Cannes in 2018 with Happy as Lazzaro, her writing earned her the Best Screenplay Award.
Screening
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- VALLI CINEMA – TUESDAY 16.7.2024.
20:00
- VALLI CINEMA – TUESDAY 16.7.2024.
FREE ENTRANCE
