Chiantishare

ChiantiShare is about a non conventional approach to learning the Italian language, Suggestopedia, experimented at Italian lessons for foreigners in the Arci club in Mercatale, thanks to a brainwave from the most amusing (and the oldest!) pupil of this lively, weird school.
Mercatale val di Pesa is a small hamlet on the Chianti hills around Florence, a land of great wines, landscapes, and Case del Popolo. The one at Mercatale, once called Little Russia, has always been the hub of political, cultural and social life in the village. Now that political fervour has simmered down, the Italian School for Foreigners is what keeps the spirit of this place alive and what best represents the double, maybe triple soul of Chianti: big and little immigrants residing for some time now in the village, political refugees and asylum seekers, sitting beside well-off foreigners from northern Europe.

ChiantiShare is a documentary short-film produced by La Sarraz Pictures. The film won the Migrarti prize 2018.