DCP

Small Homeland

Piccola Patria
Alessandro Rossetto

U.S. Premiere. Q&A with filmmaker Alessandro Rossetto on June 8.

Best friends Luisa and Renata long to escape their stifling provincial town in northeastern Italy, working as maids in a hotel and supplementing their income with sex work and a dubious blackmail plot.

DIRECTOR
Alessandro Rossetto
YEAR
2013
COUNTRY
Italy
RUNTIME
111 minutes
LANGUAGE
Italian with English subtitles
FORMAT
DCP
ORIGINAL TITLE
Piccola Patria
START DATE
June 8, 2014

U.S. Premiere. Q&A with filmmaker Alessandro Rossetto on June 8.

Best friends Luisa and Renata long above all else to leave their stifling provincial town in northeastern Italy, where tensions between locals and immigrants are forever threatening to boil over. They work as maids in a hotel but supplement their income with sexual trysts, sometimes assisted by Luisa’s Albanian boyfriend, and hatch a blackmail scheme that fails to play out as expected. The rhythms of daily life in this border zone—where city meets countryside—are captured in vivid detail in the highly promising fiction debut by experienced documentarian Rossetto.

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