200 years have passed since Cherubino Patà’s birth, yet his biography is full of unanswered questions. The painter, born in Sonogno – a tiny village at the end of the Verzasca Valley in southern Switzerland -, has travelled through Switzerland, France and Algeria, yet remains quite unknown to the wider public. The artist is mainly defined by his role of assistance to Gustave Courbet, to whom he was a close friend.
Patà was one of Courbet’s most loyal friends. In the artist’s final years, he was constantly by his side. It was he who, tirelessly looking out for the Realist’s interests, succeeded – after the Paris Commune – in getting him to take up his paintbrush again.
Emile Gros-Kost, Courbet: souvenirs intimes, 1880
As cultural institutions are trying to locate works by Patà in an effort to establish a comprehensive catalogue of his production, our curiosity is turned to the man holding the brush. Who was Cherubino Patà? How did he leave the tiny Verzasca village to reach the Salon de Paris, and the shores of Alger? What prompted his many travels?
In this personal research, director Céline Stegmüller sets out to pay tribute to her great-grandmother’s uncle, retracing his footsteps through his paintings.
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.
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
“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.
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.
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
This is the story of three women who believe that coming into the world should be as little traumatic as possible for everyone involved. Laura, Angela, and Delta dedicate their lives to turning this belief into action, enabling mothers-to-be to reclaim childbirth as a natural physiological phenomenon.
Each of these three women represents a different facet of the push for positive birth in Italian-speaking Switzerland, which strives to keep up with the times: the medical professionalism of midwife Laura, the digital activism of young mother Angela, and the political-institutional commitment of pioneer Delta.
Following Laura, Angela, and Delta in their battles allows us to take a closer look at the tension between the prevailing model of medicalised hospital birth and the desire – and need – for a more personalised, woman-centred approach, in the context of Ticino, which lags behind the rest of the country on this issue. A project aimed at improving the experience of mothers giving birth at the Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale (EOC) has been under discussion for nearly ten years – 2025 could be the year it is finally realised.
The results of the survey are presented and discussed in the “Stanza della Sorellanza” moderated by Angela.Revisiting the archives: Delta and midwife Anna discuss their meeting with Michel Odent1278 mothers told of their birth experience through a survey carried out by Mamma.Nascita.Libertà
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