L’era d’oro
The Golden Age
by
MOVIE CATEGORY
Lucy is a young Italian-English girl, born in Palermo but living in Hull, East Yorkshire. She is pregnant with the Gambian guy Kitim, who lives in Sicily, and she has the great desire to study and make music. Her pregnancy pushes her mother and her sister to visit her in England, to assist her before and after the birth of little Futura. But the difficulties in a country that never manages to truly welcome her force her to come back to Palermo, directly facing the difficult relationship with Kitim.
Palermo and Hull are the two poles between which the people inside L’era d’oro move, continuously bouncing between personal wishes, social limits and mutual misunderstandings. Camilla Iannetti manages to enter, with her camera, inside the life of these people, never resulting as a polluting measuring instrument in a private and domestic environment, but finding an invisible position that returns a delicate portrait of a generation of European citizens.
DIRECTORY
Graduated in anthropology in Palermo and at the CSC Sede Sicilia too, she made her debut with the medium-length film Uno due tre, which toured some Italian festivals in 2017. She received important acknowledgments for Marisol (2019), awarded as Best Documentary by Rai Cinema at Visioni del Mondo 2019, and then again awarded at Visioni Italiane 2020. She founded an archive of private audiovisual memories called Riavvolte. In Rome she leads cinema workshops in elementary and middle schools. L’era d’oro, her first feature-length documentary, is selected for Alice nelle Città during the Rome Film Festival 2024.
