Presentazione

Italy / 55’ / Colour / HD / 2009

Genre Documentary
Director Ivan Bormann
Screenwriter Ivan Bormann, Sara Beltrame
Production company Drop Out, Orione Cinematografica
Website sconfinato.weebly.com

Emilio Coslovi, born in Momiano, from the Italian minority in Istria, former Yugoslavia comes to Trieste to study in the seminary.
The border closes behind him and he becomes a refugee. Then a priest, later on a workerpriest, choosing to work in a factory to share the fatigue of labour with the fellow-workers. But Emilio finds new borders around him. Emilio is weird, radical, he accepts no compromises. He must be cured, helped. Emilio goes through several psychiatric treatment, electroshock and much more. Emilio is no hero, a simple man, coming from the countryside, with a strong direct evangelical approach to life. A documentary on how a fragile human being crosses our history and our territories, signs on his body and mind. A crooked film, that tries to tell about Emilio. It gets possession of his words, through his diaries, reading them, throwing them to the audience, it restages some of the most important aspects, necessarily interpreting,
exaggerating at the same time, pretending to represent the eye of Emilio on reality. Then the film pauses, and through the words of his friends, lets the arguments flow, focusing on the considerations and interpretations of the people that met him, building a narrative flow that crosses a continuous analysis, on what Emilio left us, most of all on the human side. All the people interviewed tell us about Emilio in a strong and direct way, almost like a punch in the stomach that still hurts.

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