Veleno
DOCUMENTARY|90'|COLOR|DCP|IN DEVELOPMENT
a film by Rocco Di mento
production 5e6 (ITA)
LOGLINE
Rocco's hands keep cracking open and no doctor can find a reason. A self-help group offers one: buried rage. Camera in hand, he turns it on his family. The hardest shot: his brother Mattia, silent for 25 years.
SYNOPSIS
A painful symptom forces Rocco, a documentary filmmaker, to listen to his body. No doctor can explain his cracking skin — but a friend psychotherapist suggests: "Rocco, your hands are itching" — as Italians say when anger has nowhere to go. He joins a self-help group and finds he is not alone: suppressed anger runs through the life of many.
He decides to make this the final chapter of his documentary trilogy about healing — and turns his camera on his family once again. His mother, a ballet teacher, offers esoteric solutions. His 101-year-old grandmother has lost her memory. The hardest door is his brother Mattia: a social worker and theater actor, a man whose heart towards Rocco is cold as stone. After 25 years of silence, Rocco suspects this missing connection might be the antidote to inherited poison.
Since real words between them are impossible, they must find another way. They decide to stage their childhood memories and begin a journey into anger across three generations — one that rarely finds space, but urgently needs to be faced.
CREDITS
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY: Rocco Di Mento
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