L’ECO DEI FIORI SOMMERSI
a film by Rosa Maietta
Italy, 2024, 67’
After the film Q&A with the director and Sara De Giovanni and Cora Benetti (CDOC)
The records of the Naples State Archives conceal the lives of women whose voices reach us from the past like a siren’s song. Neapolitan director Rosa Maietta recounts the stories of these long-forgotten women through court rulings, expert reports, and unearthed memorabilia: Linda, who—pregnant with the child of a man she fell in love with while her husband was at the front—chooses to have an abortion to avoid disgrace; Emma, a subversive worker whose opposition to fascism led to exile and imprisonment; Giovannina, the victim of a possessive and violent boyfriend.
The film literally plunges into the files preserved in the Naples State Archives, weaving together a narrative that finally gives these women—and their stories—a voice they were never granted.
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Tickets
Full price: €7.50
Reduced price for Under 30s, Over 65s, Culture Card holders, Amici Di Cineteca: €5
Reduced price for Unibo, Ababo, Under 20s: €3
3-show pass: €12
5-show pass: €20
Tickets can be purchased:
1) Online: on TicketSms.it
2) In person: from October 30th to November 8th at the Festival Center (DAS – Dispositivo Arti Sperimentali, via del Porto 11/2).
Passes can be purchased:
1) In person: from October 30th to November 8th at the Festival Center (DAS – Dispositivo Arti Sperimentali, via del Porto 11/2)
2) By pre-ordering them by email at biglietteria@genderbender.it and then picking them up in person at the Festival Center.
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Rosa Maietta (Benevento, 1990) graduated in Modern Literature in Naples. Between 2013 and 2016 she made the short films Senectus Ipsa Morbus, Parusia Napoletana, and Vorago, which screened at national and international festivals. She was assistant editor on Agalma by Doriana Monaco (2020). Between 2019 and 2020 she worked on archival research and editing for Gli Ultimi Giorni dell’Umanità by Enrico Ghezzi and Alessandro Gagliardo. In 2024 she edited Il Capitone by Camilla Salvatore and was assistant director to Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman on Vittoria (2024).
L’eco dei fiori sommersi is her debut feature, winner of the First Prize in Development at the Milano Film Network’s In Progress and a post-production award at the Bellaria Film Festival.
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With the support of Palazzo Bentivoglio