The Guerrasio family and their friends gather to celebrate Claudio and Carmela’s oldest daughter’s 18th birthday. There is a healthy rivalry between the birthday girl and her 16-year-old sister Chiara, as they compete on the dancefloor. It is a happy occasion, and the close-knit family is in top form. However, everything changes the next day when Claudio disappears. Chiara starts to investigate; as she gets closer to the truth, she is forced to decide what kind of future she wants for herself.

A Chiara - Jonas Carpignano (2021 Italy)_576P_5.1.mkv

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Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English, Italian, Italian VOBSUB MUX

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Synopsis:
In A CIAMBRA, a small Romani community in Calabria, Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. At 14, he drinks, smokes and is one of the few to easily slide between the region’s factions – the local Italians, the African refugees and his fellow Romani. Pio follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere, learning the necessary skills for life on the streets of their hometown. When Cosimo disappears and things start to go wrong, Pio sets out to prove he’s ready to step into his big brother’s shoes but soon finds himself faced with an impossible decision that will show if he is truly ready to become a man.

Review:
Continuing from Mediterranea (winner of the Discovery Award in the Critics’ Week at the 68th Cannes Film Festival), where he traced the dramatic journey of black immigrants from Burkina Faso to Calabria, Jonas Carpignano decided to remain in this troubled region in the south of Italy to tell the story of another marginalised community: the Roma. A Ciambra, presented at the Directors’ Fortnight of the 70th Cannes Film Festival, was shot in the neighbourhood of the same name in Gioia Tauro – defined by journalists as a real ghetto, a “ship” on solid ground that tends to be subject to raids by security forces to recover stolen objects. In a style that pays homage to the Italian neo-realist school (“cinephile” Martin Scorsese is the film’s executive producer), Carpignano traces the rite of passage to adulthood of Pio Amato, a 14-year-old Roma boy who keeps saying “I’m grown up now” and thus acts accordingly. The director, who has been living in Gioia for seven years, goes back to his roots (his father Paolo, the film’s co-producer was born there) by writing a script between reality and fiction, inserting experiences, episodes, customs and traditions of the inhabitants of the 17 buildings that make up the Roma village in the procured Ciambra. Carpignano met Pio when he was still a child while casting for Mediterranea (in which Pio did finally make an appearance) and remained impressed by his personality, which is why he decided to make A Ciambra over a number of years, assiduously visiting these people who “adopted” him.

In the film, Pio, kept away from “family affairs”, starts taking things into his own hands after being arrested for a theft committed by his father and brother (Damiano Amato). One example is how he returns a stolen car in exchange for money which he takes home to his mother. His friend and confidant Ayiva, a young boy from the local African minority (Koudous Seihon, protagonist of Mediterranea), takes care of him like a father. However one day, Pio steals from someone he should not have – a ‘Ndrangheta boss who has close ties to the family. The pace of the story is kept by the extraordinary editing of Affonso Gonçalves, who can already boast of a loaded CV: Carol by Todd Haynes, Paterson and Only Lovers Left Alive by Jim Jarmusch and Beasts of the Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin.

The use of amateur actors makes the film fascinating and very credible – a huge dynasty of sons and daughters, grandsons and granddaughters, all with the same surname: Amato. The social degradation is plain to see and the relation of submission and cooperation between Mafioso families and the Roma is very realistic. Pio comes of age and his criminal education has hardly begun. In the words of the grandfather Emilian, which hold all the drama of a world that has turned its back on a past that was less fierce, more free and nomadic: “We were always in the street and no one told us what to do.”

— Camillo de Marco (Cineuropa)

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Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English (muxed)

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Quote:
Jacques Audiard’s decent Dheepan may have won the top prize at Cannes, but another drama about the experience of illegal immigrants in Europe deserves its fair share of the limelight. Screened in the festival’s Critics’ Week, Jonas Carpignano’s debut feature Mediterranea follows a Burkina Faso man as he takes a treacherous land and sea journey, then gets a foothold in Calabria, Italy. With an intimate naturalism that at times evokes a tag-along documentary, Carpignano’s matter-of-fact approach, leavened with the humor of engaging side characters, produces the ring of truth without strain.

That might be because the troubles faced by the character, Ayiva, were in many cases also faced by Koudous Seihon, the actor who plays him. These include the catch-22’s of finding work and appropriate identity papers; the minefield of social integration and racism encountered in living among native Italians; and the touching, fragile support network provided by fellow migrants from Burkina Faso. Ayiva’s work ethic (and his likeability) gets him a steady job at a citrus picking-and-packing plant, although not all his comrades follow him to the same success.

Survival has a lot to do with luck, and walking down the wrong street at the wrong time (which, it seems, could potentially be a lot of the time for Ayiva and friends) can change the course of your life. But Carpignano’s quietly stirring debut demonstrates palpable artistic integrity, and shows that suffering is not the whole story.

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Language(s):English, Arabic, Italian, French
Subtitles:included: English, Spanish

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