HISTORY

Maura and Rosa, two almost illiterate women from a village with no electricity in El Salvador, have just arrived at Barefoot College, in India, with another forty women from all over the world, to attend a course on how to install solar panels. They have never been separated from their families, and they don’t speak English.

At the same time, in South Peru, Jeny and Paula, who have recently returned from the course, demonstrate that Barefoot College is a place where the impossible is possible. Before they were wives and mothers. Now they are solar engineers who travel from village to village, fitting panels to bring the sun home

Friday, 18 th december 18.00 h.

Direction:

Chiara Andrich

Giovanni Pellegrini.

Italy 2013

67 min

Languages:

Spanish

English

Hindi

Subtitles:

Spanish

Production:

Sole Luna

Un ponte tra le culture.

Sponsor:

Enel Green Power.

Photography:

Chiara Andrich

Giovanni Pellegrini.

Edition:

Chiara Andrich

Giovanni Pellegrini.

DIRECTOR

Chiara Andrich graduated in Performing Arts and Media Production at the University of Padua in 2006. He graduated in documentary film at the Experimental Cinema Centre Palermo in 2012 with Giovanni Pellegrini. The two directors, both Venetians were authors of several documentary films.

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

• Festival film Locarno: Official Selection
• Visioni Italiane Bologne: Premio D.E.R.
• Euganea Film Festival: Official Selection
• Bellaria Film Festival: Official Selection
• Caaliari Film Festival: Official Selection
• Sestiere Film Festival: Official Selection
• Festival Latino Aericano Trieste: Official Selection