SINGING IN EXILE

POLISH TITLE: PIEŚŃ PAMIĘCI

In order to pass on an their ancestral and endangered heritage, Aram and Virginia Kerovpyan, an Armenian couple from the diaspora with Jarosław Fret and international troupe of actors from Teatr ZAR based Wrocław travel on a journey to the places where this art was born, to Anatolia. On the way, their questions revive the wealth of a wiped­out culture, and singing becomes a language of creation and sharing, a breath of life.

GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
Poland, Belgium, France
RUNNING TIME:
72'
YEAR:
COLOUR:
colour
DIRECTING:
Nathalie Rossetti, Turi Finocchiaro
SCRIPT:
Nathalie Rossetti, Turi Finocchiaro
DOP:
Raphael Van Sitteren, Maël Lagadec, Edouard Valette, Pôl Seïf
EDITOR:
Rudi Maerten
SOUND:
Origan Cannella, Agnès Szabo, Elsa Ruhlmann, Jeanne Debarsy
PRODUCTION:
Borak Films
COPRODUCTION:
touchFILMS, Les Productions du Lagon

Nathalie Rossetti »

Nathalie Rossetti after studies at the DAMS (University of Bologna) and Orazio Costa theater school in Florence, starting from 1991 year she worked in the audiovisual sector as a writer, documentary filmmaker, music assistant for films and assistant director for directors and producers in Italy and Belgium. Apart from writing screenplays for short movies, she has worked as co-author of four fiction movies among others “Le Main Rouge’ directed by Yvan Le Moin, awarded with Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at the Cannes festival in 1998. Author of the documentary Oltre il ring [Beyond the ring] (56’), 2005, awarded with Honorable Mention, FICTS in Milano. Starting from 2000, together with her husband Turi Finocchiaro, they realize and produce their own documentaries related to art, anthropology and justice. 

Turi Finocchiaro »

Turi Finocchiaro after completing film studies on the artistic level (France) and technical level (Belgium) and becoming familiar with the landscape in several European countries, heI decided to go into the field of audiovisual production with an initial foray into fiction films (Italy), followed by documentaries (Belgium).  From 1993 onwards, he worked for a number of production companies in the field of project development and financing applications for European programmes (Media, Eurimages). This led him to found E.F.C. in Rome in 1996 devoted exclusively to project development.  In 1998, he went on to create Impronte Digitali in Rome, an independent production company devoted to short films and creative documentaries. After returning to Belgium in 2004, he has directed several films with Nathalie Rossetti and together, along with Amel Bouzid, they have founded Borak Films in 2009.