Mariella Navale

Il battello ebbro (2021)

Ifigenia in Aulide (2018)

Italian director Tonino De Bernardi, a regular guest at IFFR, filmed on the Greek island Evia (or Euboea) during the refugee crisis. Many immigrants arrived on the Greek islands, as well as in Italy. De Bernardi also filmed the border town Ventimiglia, whe ...

Galileo’s Thermometer (2018)

A whole summer long, Portuguese filmmaker Teresa Villaverde stayed with Italian cult director Tonino De Bernardi, who was working on projects including a film version of Sophocles' Electra starring only local villagers. She sits at the table with the famil ...

Ed è così. Circa. Più o meno. (2011)

A film in seven chapters. A documentary overwhelmed by life. A story with no plot. A trip. From the countryside to cities, from Italy to India to Greece. Through the ages and generations, through the work of farmers and the exploitation of migrant bodies. ...

Past Present, Lay Angels Fall (2005)

A film about various forms of migration: those of place, time, body and identity. ...

Terra (2002)

Migration (1970)

A series of migrants who at times narrate and impersonate shards of myths, among them the Great Goddess, the Virgin of Bach's Magnificat, the Sulamite of Stockhausen's Song of Solomon ("I am black but comely"), tales by Herodotus, Kafka, Villon (as set to ...

Dei (1968)

The construction of the film is very simple. Most of the time we see faces in close-up. Three pairs of faces, usually, on three different levels of superimpositions. At first, the faces are very theatrical, made-up. It's not clear whether they are men or w ...

Piena di fiume (1968)

Lune (1968)

Lune (Moons) is a fragment from Cronache del sentimento e del sogno (Chronicles of the Sentiment and the Dream) and consists of a series of images-in-images of faces and bodies. It is a study of the significance of the face, movement and the character of ( ...

Il mostro verde (1967)

Short made for double parallel projections, for which Allen Ginsberg said that it's his favorite underground European film, debut from the director, cheeky hommage to B-movies. ...

Jour et nuit, delle donne e degli uomini perduti (2014)

Portraits of women, stories from their past and their present as prostitutes working between Italy and France (and Brazil). Women who used to think they were lost, and men just as lost as them. ...

Ed è così. Circa. Più o meno. (2011)

A film in seven chapters. A documentary overwhelmed by life. A story with no plot. A trip. From the countryside to cities, from Italy to India to Greece. Through the ages and generations, through the work of farmers and the exploitation of migrant bodies. ...

Bread/Camellia's Square (2008)

Husband and wife Carlo and Grazia make bread in their wood-burning oven and also distribute it to the sellers. They work all night long, every day of the week, as their families used to do. They live in Gorgiti, a village in Tuscany, on the mountains near ...

Past Present, Lay Angels Fall (2005)

A film about various forms of migration: those of place, time, body and identity. ...

Serva e Padrona (2003)

Three young women at home, the eye of the camera doesn't leave them for a moment and shows them first in a narrow kitchen, then in a small bathroom in front of a mirror, then in a bare living room where they spend part of the evening. The three are the mis ...

RosaTigre (2000)

This is a story about a Neapolitan guy, Antonello, immigrant in Turin, who, for a living, hooks on the street as Rosatigre. Sasà, a friend of his, tries to bring him back to Naples, but, after a tortured decision, Antonello chooses to come back North and ...