Domenica capitale – genere domenicale
by Giovanna Giuliani
Italy, 2026, 165’, color
Screenplay: Giovanna Giuliani
One woman works at the municipal desk where Roman residents voice their grievances. The other at the speech therapy clinic in Naples. One listens; the other helps patients speak. Both work with the spoken word. Both are nearing retirement: the start of one long Sunday, instead of that weekday punching of the clock, inside offices, inside rooms. What was that weekly Sunday in their lives, if not an open space of truly creative activity, free from the office worker’s bane of unproductivity? If not a time for active listening, in the neighborhood, getting together at odd hours, an unplanned field of possibility? Away from that tame, sleep-walking environment of the pay check and the limits it places on one’s goals? By comparing the active, voluntary Sunday and the passive, enforced Sunday – and those who lived before the Sunday of Italian tradition and those after, this film attempts to speak all the languages of Sunday.
Projections
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07 September alle 20:30 — Sala Laguna
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08 September alle 13:00 — Sala Laguna
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Director
Giovanna Giuliani (Bari) studied literature and philosophy in Naples. A self-taught stage and film actress, she has been directed by Gianluca Jodice, Mario Martone, Jean-Marie Straub, Shirin Neshat, Anton Milenin, Alfredo Arias, Werner Waas, Mimmo Calopresti, Tonino De Bernardi, and Andrea De Rosa. She has worked with the musician Daniele Sepe and, in radio, on the project Sala giochi, written by Goffredo Fofi and Maurizio Braucci. Assistant to Martone and Straub-Huillet, she went on to direct: Il Monaciello di Napoli; I Minimi di Elmina; La montagna spara-la pianura non risponde; Dongiovanna-Corpo senza Qualità; Rivoluzione al Bar. In 2001, she won the Sacher Award for Best Actress in La signorina Holibet . Since 2015, she has worked with Michelangelo Frammartino, for whose film Il bucoshe obtained an advanced certificate in spelunking and working at heights, co-wrote the film and handled various aspects of the production: artistic, creative, casting, acting, and coaching.
