CHIARA

Genre: Drama

Languages: Italian

Subtitles : French/English

Format: HD

Sound : 5.1.

Duration : 106 min

Countries : Italy, Belgium

Year : 2022

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SYNOPSIS

Chiara is eighteen years old and one night she runs away from home to join her friend Francesco: from that moment her life changes forever.
The story of a Saint, the story of a girl and her dream of freedom.

CREDITS

Director: Susanna Nicchiarelli

Screenplay:  Susanna Nicchiarelli

Image: Crystel Fournier

Sound: Adriano Di Lorenzo

Costumes: Massimo Cantini Parrini

Make-up: Valentina Tomljanovic

Editing: Stefano Cravero

Music: Anonima Frottolisti

Sound editing: Marc Bastien
Sound mixing: Franco Piscopo

Produced by Vivo Film (Marta Donzelli, Gregorio Paonessa)

Co-produced by Tarantula (Joseph Rouschop, Valérie Bournonville)

International sales: The  Match Factory

Benelux Distributor: Tarantula Distribution

FESTIVALS

DIRECTOR

Susanna Nicchiarelli is born in 1975 in Rome. Perfectly bilingual in Italian and English, she studied Philosophia at La Sapienza (Rome) and got a PhD in Film Aesthetic at l’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Pise, while taking in the same time courses and master classes in Paris and at l’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses de Lyon. She studied filmmaking and film writing at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and, in 2004, is gratuated in Cinema Filmmaking from the Rome Experimental Center of Cinematography, Cinecittà.

PRESS REVIEWS

“Susanna Nicchiarelli paints a credible portrait of a revolutionary saint, as a girl and a woman, which is free from rhetorical trappings” – Davide Abbatescianni / Cineuropa