A lonely road in southern Italy leads us to an isolated house, the home of the Durati family, whose four members have been murdered for no apparent reason. Sara Summa's first feature film, premiered in the Forum Section of the Berlin Film Festival in 2019, takes us into the last day of life of Dora, Matteo, Renzo and Alice, trapping us through its minimalist mise-en-scène, in a story of few characters and a single setting. Almost like a very free reconstruction of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, the film dwells on every everyday gesture, where an indescribable tension and a sense of constant threat pulsates. In this very peculiar reinvention of the home-invasion genre, we witness the family's relationship with the landscape, their daily rituals and their personal time, which take on a gloomy, twilight aura now that we know what awaits them at the end of the day.
Sara Summa
She was born in an Italian family in Paris, France, in 1988. Since her early childhood she participated in numerous film and theatre projects. In 2011 she finished her master’s degree in film, for which she studied in France, Italy and the USA. She has lived and worked in Berlin since then, where she studied directing at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie. After several short films and her mid-length ‘My Friends’ (2018), her first feature length film, ‘The Last to See Them’ (2019), celebrated its world premiere at the Berlinale. In 2020, she won the German cultural institution BKM’s Screenplay Grant for her project ‘A Safe Place’. ‘Arthur&Diana’ (2023) had it’s world premiere in the Discovery section of the Toronto Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize at the Meeting Point section in Seminci.
Screenings
O.V. in Italian, Neapolitan, English subtitled in Spanish and English
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