Kitantara – Short stories
author
Alessandro Borrelli
genre
Documentary
producer
Alessandro Borrelli
lenght
56 minutes
original format
DVCam / Colore
screening format
Betacam SP – MiniDV – DVD – VHS
location
Torino, Brescia (Italia), Antananarivo, Majunga, Ambosistra, Fianarantsoa, Toliara, Ifanadiana, Ankililoaka, St. Augustin (Madagascar)
year
2004
Synopsis
Kitantara in Madagascar means “short stories”, but it is also a play in which children act aloud, helping themselves with stones, short stories about everyday life.
Don Silvio, priest and magician, and three more “magicians without borders”, drive through Madagascar from north to south listening to the stories, hopes and dreams of the children, and bringing to them the funds for the construction of a school in Toliara, in the south of the Isle: in this area there is the highest rate of illiteracy.
During the journey they receive meaningful testimonies from missionaries, volounteers, teachers, artists who work with children , in the isle, which the world knows better for its landscapes, for the lemures and chameleons, than for its social reality.
Characters: Don Silvio Mantelli, Piero Osella, Maria Pia Sinibaldi, Demetrio Bazzotti
With the friendly partecipation of Arturo Brachetti, Patch Adams, Alex De Cova
Camera: Mauro Minozzi
Editor: Ezio Perardi
Non-original music: Tamae
Aiuto regia: Christos Acrivulis
Director: Alessandro Borrelli
First delivery: 30/12/2004, RAITRE, trasmissione “Doc3”
Airing: Dicembre 2004, RAITRE
Distribution: RaiTrade
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