Original name: Nonostante la nebbia
English name: Despite the Fog
Year: 2019
Run time: 100’
Language: Italian
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Italy
Director: Goran Paskaljevic
Producer: Simona Banchi, Amedeo Letizia, Mariella Li Sacchi
Cast: Giorgio Tirabassi, Donatella Finocchiaro, Ali Mousa Ali Sarhan, Francesco Acquaroli
Screenplay: Goran Paskaljevic, Filip David, Marco Alessi, Giuseppe Eusepi
Cinematographer: Milan Spasic
Editor: Uros Timotijevic
Sound Designer: Andrea Malavasi
Music Composer: Vlatko Stefanovski
Costume Designer: Luigi Bonanno
Production Designer: Beatrice Scarpato
Production Company: Cinemusa , Nova Film , Rosebud Entertainment Pictures , Sektor Film Skopje
World Sales: Nova Film
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Festivals:
Tallinn Black Nights FF 2019
Valladolid IFF 2019
IFF India 2019
IFF Kerala 2019
Selected Filmography:
2017 Dev Bhoomi - Land of Gods
2012 When Day Breaks
2009 Honeymoons
2006 The Optimists
2004 Midwinter Night's Dream
2001 How Harry Became a Tree
Director’s Biography : Goran Paskaljevic is one of Europe’s most respected directors. He was born in Belgrade (Serbia) and he studied at the well-known Prague school of cinema (FAMU). He has made 30 documentaries and 17 feature films, shown and acclaimed at the most prestigious international film festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto…). In 2001, Variety International Film Guide marked him as one of the world’s top five directors of the year. The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) in 2008 and the BFI (London) in 2010, both presented a full retrospective of his work.
Synopsis: Paolo, manager of a restaurant in a small town in the province of Rome, is returning home after work on a rainy evening. Along the way he sees a eight-year-old child huddled in the cold at a bus stop and decides to take him home. The child is called Mohammed and is a refugee, abandoned, who lost his parents during the trip to Italy on a rubber boat. The presence of the child upsets Paolo’s wife Valeria, hesitant and doubtful at the beginning, but who eventually agrees to host him for the night. After a while she changes her mind and decides to keep Mohamed despite everybody’s opinion…
