Diaz – Don’t Clean Up This Blood
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MOVIE CATEGORY
On the night between July 21st and 22nd, 2001, immediately after the G8 summit that brought the world’s major powers together in Genoa, police stormed the Armando Diaz school, occupied by protesters who had been making their voices heard throughout the day in the streets of the Ligurian capital. The clashes left 61 injured, three seriously, and one in a coma. Daniele Vicari’s film, winner of four David di Donatello Awards, relives those moments through different perspectives—journalist Luca, German anarchist Alma, activist Anselmo, and others—through Benni Atria’s editing, imbuing each image with the historical consciousness of one of the most violent acts of the new Italian millennium by law enforcement. The performances of, among others, Elio Germano, Jennifer Ulrich and Claudio Santamaria manage to portray, in the reconstruction of events, the painful cry of pain of the victims of the attack, one of the most emblematic facts of the violation of human rights against peaceful protesters.
DIRECTORY
Born in 1962 in Castelvetrano (TP). Starting in the mid-1980s in Rome, he began his first editing jobs; in the 1990s, he worked on films by Gianni Amelio (The Stolen Children, 1992), Bernardo Bertolucci (Stealing Beauty, 1996) and Roberto Benigni (Life is Beautiful, 1997). He returned to Palermo in the mid-2000s and worked alongside Salvo Cuccia on documentaries; in the meantime, he edited films by Guido Chiesa, Alina Marazzi, Nanni Moretti, Giuseppe Tornatore and Ferzan Özpetek. He worked on Michelangelo Frammartino’s biggest festival hits, namely The Four Times (2010) and Il Buco (2022). For Daniele Vicari, he has worked on Diaz – Don’t Clean Up This Blood (2012) and Tired of Killing (2025). More recently, he was awarded the Nastro d’Argento for Editing for The Macaluso Sisters (2020) by Emma Dante. He also teaches editing with lessons and masterclasses held in various public and private schools. Since 2011, he has been the Area Supervisor for Sound Editing at the “Gian Maria Volonté” School of Cinematographic Arts in Rome.
