immagine gff 2022

GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 2022 - 21.30 July

Films

CALIFORNIE

Category: Edition 2022

Jamila is an exuberant Moroccan girl with street smarts, who seems to have enormous potential to achieve great things or else trigger mega-disasters. CALIFORNIE follows her day in and day out from age 9 to 14, in the small town in southern Italy where she lives, to reconstruct the fascinating personal journey Jamila undertakes setbacks and detours included to find her place in the world.

Original Title Californie
Category Out of competition
Section Parental Experience
Tipology Feature Film
Duration 81'
Production Year 2021
Nationality Italy
Directed by Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman
Screenplay Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman, Vanessa Picciarelli
Director of photography Emanuele Pasquet
Editor Alessandro Cassigoli
Sound Antonio Casparriello, Giuseppe D’Amato, Sandro Rossi
Music Giorgio Giampà
Main cast Khadija Jaafari, Ikram Jaafari, Marilena Amato, Fatima Ramouch, Simona Petrosino, Emanuele Palumbo
Produced by Damiano Ticconi
Production Ang Film, La Mansarde Cinéma, Rai Cinema

regista Alessandro Cassigoli regista Casey KauffmanAlessandro Cassigoli

Director and screenwriter. He began his experience in the filmmaking world in Rome, working as an assistant director. After a few years, he moved to Berlin where he made three documentaries which earned him several awards in international festivals including Full Frame (USA) and Dok Leipzig (Germany). In the same period, he collaborated with the Franco-German television channel Arte for which he directed six documentaries. In 2015, he returned to Italy to make his first feature film THE THINGS WE KEEP, with Casey Kauffman, which won the public award at the 2018 Biografilm Festival. In 2018 Alessandro directed the film BUTTERFLY (with Casey Kauffman). CALIFORNIE is his third film.

Casey Kauffman

Casey Kauffman is an American filmmaker and journalist who has worked in more than 30 countries for Al Jazeera, the World Food Programme, Sky Italia, and APTN. He received the prestigious CONCENTRA award for video journalism for a reportage made in Gaza; and the Golden Eagle Award for a documentary on Southern Sudan. After nine years spent in the Middle East, Casey returned to Italy to make his first feature film THE THINGS WE KEEP which won the public award at the 2018 Biografilm Festival. In 2018 Casey directed the film BUTTERFLY (with Alessandro Cassigoli). CALIFORNIE is his third film.

Production
Ang Film
Rai Cinema

italian distribution
festival contact
Fandango
(Italy/Italia)
www.fandango.it