Project Category: completed

  • Love Trips

    Love Trips

    Synopsis:

    LoveTrips tells the stories of people that have to travel to keep their love alive. It’s a documentary on 12 couples involved in romantic long distance relationships across modern Europe, as testimony to human defiance of differences and distance.

    Documentary
    Switzerland/Austria/ 2011
    length: 65/52min
    co-production with: SoleilFilm

    Trailer:

    Available on VOD

    Credits:

    written and directed by
    Carlo Pisani

    cinematography
    Carlo Pisani

    editing
    Andres Jud
    Carlo Pisani

    production sound
    Donald Gately

    sound editor and foley
    Alberto Padoan

    sound mixer
    Antongiorgio Sabia

    with the kind participation of:
    (in order of appearance)

    Carmen Julia Gutiérrez
    Antonio Luigi Rinaldi
    Elena Moran
    Mike Garrelfs
    Xuan Nguyen
    Sandrine Provoost
    Natalia Cyrzan
    Pedro Gonçalves
    Anya Hübschle
    Till Schneider
    Inês Jacques
    Matthew Smith
    Sue Johnson
    Bertil Nilsson
    Gloria Urech
    Mark Walker
    Tanja Luthardt
    Arnaud van der Gracht de Rommerswael
    Emma Heal
    Emmanuel Gerbaud
    Miljenka Buljevic
    Kyril Rubinstein
    Başak Ertür
    Alisa Lebow
    Mateo Tan Elias

    and with
    Eva Allenbach
    Antonio Manca

    all music composed by
    Umberto Smerilli

    “Spirit, Spanish Samurai”
    Umberto Smerilli sax, guitar, shakuhachi, piano, percussions, wind.
    Elena Floris violin
    Chun Ni cello
    Corey Jay trumpet

    sound engineer piano recording
    Stephan Glattfelder

    Recorded at Aquilonia n4 studios and in Zürich at Atelier für Musik und Bewegung.

    “Due e Tre”
    Susanna Capocci  piano

    “Amarcorviale”

    Susanna Capocci piano
    Stefano Circeo flute
    Fabio Odoardi oboe
    Francesca Bargiglione clarinet
    Vincenzo Felicioni bassoon
    Giuseppe Sanelli bassoon
    Antonio Russo horn
    Massimiliano Di Carlo trumpet

    Recorded at
    Pescara Conservatory “Luisa D’Annunzio”

    sound engineer
    Gigi D’Amico

    production management

    East Europe: Edmond Laccon

    West Europe: Pawel Antas

    South East Europe: Gregor Bozic

    Script consultant: Oliver Manzi

    The director would like to thank:

    Yelena Afonina, Ricardo André Simões Malafaia, Pawel Antas, Sergio Basso, Gregor Bozic, Ulrik Brüel Gerber, Gabriele Bunkheila, Livio Capillera, Stefania Casale, Cyril Chacar, Marco Danieli, Simone Dietschi, Claudia Dietschi, Marianne Geiger, Marina Gumzi, Nico Huurman, Andres Jud, Hanna Jud, Heinrich Jud, Thomas Jud, Thomas Jud, Stefan Jud, Beatrice Jud, Judit Jusztin, Zuzana Kožuchová, Aneta Kownatzki, Dagna L. Vinet, Edmond Laccon, Jean-Denis Le Dinahet, Beppe Leonetti, Frida Linden, Maciej Maliszewski, Oliver Manzi, Valerio Mieli, Ottavia Minervini, Christoph Pasour, Hannah Pettitt, Enzo Pisani, Luigi Pisani, Francesca Pisani, Daniele Pisani, Alessandro Pisani, Benjamin Priebe, Erich Schmid, Stefan Jud, Marco Tiberini, Antonio Torcolacci, Taja Vovk van Gaal, Karolina Zielinska, Giacomo de Marco, Paul ter Weijde.

    Produced by

    RebelMango in collaboration with LeGroupeSoleil

    Thanks to a grant from the European Cultural Foundation

  • Resettlement/Eksmisja

    Resettlement/Eksmisja

    A co production between Soleil Film (AT) and RebelMango (CH).

    Synopsis:

    An unique polish couple in their 80s. After living for 66 years in their flat they have to move out. While Maria is an extraordinary spirit full of undominable optimism and vitality – Tadeusz is a silent scientist and a fatalist. Now they have to fight their existential disaster that unveils the touching stories of their life and casts a shadow over their present. It’s a film about justice and equality – the crisis of morality in past and present modern society, as well as about how to get old – staying young.

    original title: EKSMISJA
    int. title: RESETTLEMENT

    Credits:
    realisation: Filip Antoni Malinowski
    producers: Filip Antoni Malinowski, Jürgen Karasek, Carlo Pisani
    editing: Filip Antoni Malinowski, Julia Pontiller
    camera: Filip Antoni Malinowski
    music: Thalija

    production: Soleil Film GmbH
    in coproduction with RebelMango
    length: 80min
    genere: feature documentary
    year: 2012
    country: poland/austria
    language: polish
    subtitles: english

    festivals: 52. Krakow Film Festival

    format: DCP, Hdcam, Blu-Ray, DVD

    TV- Version available, 53/56min

  • Maria Pozzi, lifelong midwife

    Maria Pozzi, lifelong midwife

    After spending her childhood and youth in Rodi, a small village in the north of canton Ticino, Maria Pozzi – born in 1920 – decided to embark on a new adventure to become a midwife. She took the train to St. Gallen, where she spent three years training at the Frauenklinik, already helping deliver her first babies.

    We met her in 2022, at the retirement home where she was residing, for a conversation about her professional experience. In a bag, she still had her professional tools, which helped her deliver a total of 1978 babies. All their names are carefully written in a small black booklet: among them is also Francesca Coppa Dotti, who led the discussion, a midwife too.

    Maria Pozzi returned to Leventina in 1955, where a midwife was needed in the hospital of Faido. She worked there until 1971, delivering many babies for the wives of the Monteforno workers. It was a job she carried out alone, except in difficult cases, when a doctor would come from Bellinzona. And it was in Bellinzona itself that she later worked for the last ten years of her career before retiring.

    Over her long career she witnessed many changes: from the delivery room in St. Gallen with space for four women separated only by a curtain, to the transition from the wooden obstetric stethoscope to the electronic device that even allowed the mother to hear the baby’s heartbeat, and finally the arrival of the first ultrasounds.

    Maria Pozzi passed away in August 2022, and left her midwife bag and its content to the local museum, as keepsake of how babies were born a hundred years ago.

    An excerpt of our portrait was published by Swiss public broadcaster RSI on the International day of the midwife:

    Two women talk to each other
    Francesca Coppa Dotti (right) and Maria Pozzi (left) compare professional experiences

    This portrait was commissioned by the Ticino section of the Swiss federation of midwives.

  • Heinz Dilemma

    Heinz Dilemma

    Heinz Dilemma

    Interactive video experiment on moral reasoning

    By Carlo Pisani, Andres Jud & Maria Stalder

    Interactive | 6 min | English | Featured on themarginalian.org

    What would you do if someone you loved needed a life-saving drug you couldn’t afford? Would you steal it? Stay within the law? Find another way?

    Heinz Dilemma is a short interactive video that invites viewers to step into a classic moral thought experiment—first posed by psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg, based on the work of Jean Piaget. You’ll be asked to choose from a set of actions, and based on your response, the video “diagnoses” your current stage of moral development: pre-conventional, conventional, or post-conventional.

    Simple in form but rich in implication, the project playfully tests how we justify difficult decisions, and what this says about our internal moral compass.