'Leonora addio' by Paolo Taviani will be in competition for Italy at the 72nd edition of the Berlin International Film Festival which will be held in attendance from 10 to 16 February.
"It is really good news that the Berlin Film Festival will be held in attendance. Yes, it is a great challenge to the viruses that haunt us. It is cinema that is fighting and Berlin is a Festival that does not get discouraged and always seeks the new of cinema in the world. Good luck then to the director Carlo Chatrian and his collaborators. And to all of us! ". With these words the director accompanies the news of 'Leonora farewell' at the Berlin Film Festival, as the only Italian film in competition.
The film tells the daring adventure of Pirandello's ashes and the eventful journey of the urn from Rome to Agrigento, up to the troubled burial that took place fifteen years after his death.
And to close the film, Pirandello's last story written twenty days before his death: "Il chiodo" where the young Bastianeddu, torn from his mother's arms in Sicily and forced to follow his father across the ocean, fails to heal the wound that drives him to a senseless gesture.
