FELLINI E L'OMBRA

by Catherine McGilvray

Italy, Switzerland, 2021, 64', color, b/w

Screenplay: Caterina Cardona,
Catherine McGilvray, Bruno Roberti

MONDAY 06 SEPTEMBER 2021

16:00 Teatro Goldoni Reservation required on giornatedegliautori.com

BOOK

cinematography

Henry Guereschi
editing
Silvia Di Domenico
animation
Gisella Penazzi

music
Daniel Ezquerra
sound
François Waledisch
costumes
Marianna Sciveres

with
Claudia de Oliveira Teixeira
Diletta Laezza
Claudia Sorrentino
Rosanna Sferrazza
Gianfranco Angelucci

producer
Andrea Gambetta
production
Verdiana
co-producer
Samanta Gandolfi Branca
co-production
Célestes Images
in association with
Istituto Luce - Cinecittà
Radio Televisione Svizzera

contacts
Verdiana
verdianafilm@gmail.com

Célestes Images
samanta@celestesimages.ch

italian press office
Nicoletta Billi
nicolettabilli@gmail.com

Fellini lived with a secret: the one investigated by Claudia, a Portuguese documentary filmmaker trying to make a film about him. The traces of the secret are in his "Book of Dreams" and in Fellini's relationship with Dr. Bernhard, his analyst and a pioneer of Jungian analysis in Italy, without whom the masterpiece 8 ½ would never have seen the light. Traces also appear in coincidences, interviews with friends, and places dear to Fellini: Rome, Rimini, or Jung's Tower House in Bollingen. But what Claudia discovers also makes up a tender, magical portrait: the certainty that, for Fellini, dreams are the only true reality.

Fellini e l'ombra

Filmography

2021 Fellini e l'ombra

2019 Los Sin Voz (doc)

2017 Sono nato comunista (doc)

2015 Il cuore dell'assassino (doc)

2006 Il cuore all'improvviso (short)

2005 Enzo Siciliano, lo scrittore e il suo guscio (doc)

2004 L'iguana

2003 Aspettando il treno (short)

2000 Renata Scotto, l'isola dell'Opera (doc)

2000 Il treno per l'Opera (doc)

"Fellini e l'ombra is an unusual film that mixes elements of fiction, animation and documentary to probe the creative unconscious of an absolute genius. It is a journey into Fellini's inner life, guided by his most intimate voice, interweaving memory and dreams, drawings and film images, photos and backstage that show the most secret side of the great filmmaker." [Catherine McGilvray]

Catherine McGilvray, director and screenwriter, lives in Rome. After receiving a degree in literature, she graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 1993. She made her feature film debut with the film The Iguana, based on the novel by Anna Maria Ortese, in competition at the 2004 Torino Film Festival. In addition to the short films Parigi Cambia and Aspettando il treno, she has written and directed several documentaries in France and Italy, including: Sono nato comunista, The Voiceless and the award-winning Heart of a Murderer.