with Marina Rippa and the women from the theater’s workshop Amelia Patierno, Anna Liguori, Anna Manzo, Anna Marigliano, Anna Patierno, Antonella Esposito, Flora Faliti, Flora Quarto, Gianna Mosca, Giustina Cirillo, Giusy Esposito, Ida Pollice, Iolanda Vasquez, Melina De Luca, Nunzia Patierno, Patrizia Iorio, Rosa Tarantino, Rosalba Fiorentino, Rosetta Lima, Rossella Cascone, Susy Cerasuolo, Susy Martino and Tina Esposito
produced by Antonella Di Nocera and Claudia Canfora
direction and photography Isabella Mari editing Lea Dicursi
sound editing and mix Marco Saitta color correction Simona Infante
animation titles Elio Fortunato
graphic design Letizia Bertolotti graphical integration Claudia Sorrentino
production office Grazia De Micco
a production by Parallelo 41
with the collaboration of f.pl. femminile plurale
with the support of Regione Campania and Film Commission Regione Campania and MIC and SIAE as part of the “Per Chi Crea” programme
press office Storyfinders | Lionella Bianca Fiorillo
For more than thirty years, Marina Rippa has been running theatre workshops for women in disadvantaged areas of Napoli. Through theatre, these women – mothers, wives and daughters – are able to overcome the restrictive customs of their everyday lives and express what they really are. The workshop becomes a vital space of sharing and liberation for them, where body and voice merge to make the invisible visible, borne up by the beauty and strength each carries within them. In a sudden dark period in Marina’s life, the embrace of her women show that the strong bonds of sisterhood forged over time extends beyond the boundaries of the theatre space. The film chronicles this journey of emancipation and self-determination a journey that transforms the stage space into a sacred place where stories of rebellion and redemption come to life.
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