Sub Rosa
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MOVIE CATEGORY
Inside a concrete courtyard, women dressed in colorful garments whisper prayers in many different languages on or off screen, they arrange themselves in a circle, they kneel down, they dream of what is beyond the wall. The unpublished short film by director Chiara Agnello and artist Stefania Galegati Shines arises from a creative workshop carried out with the inmates of the Pagliarelli prison in Palermo. “We are all the same”, is murmured almost in secret, and thus a collective portrait of a closed but full of hope vitality is painted before our eyes.
DIRECTORY
Chiara Agnello, born in Palermo, graduate in Film History and Criticism, she worked as a casting director for important projects, collaborating with personalities like Marco Bellocchio and Giuseppe Tornatore. She won a Nastro d’Argento for La stranezza by Roberto Andò and she has won several awards in Italian festivals for her documentaries Prova contraria and Dadalove.
Stefania Galegati Shines, born in Bagnacavallo in 1973, she studied visual arts in Bologna and in Brera and she is a multimedial artist. She has lived in New York, Buenos Aires, Tanzania, Europe, but since 2008 she has lived in Palermo. She teaches painting at the Academy of Fine Arts. She works with galleries like Pinksummer and FPAC, and she is president of the Counterproduction association.