Il cerchio
13 May 2023 | 11:00
Cinema Smeraldo
Free screening, open to all school classes
The “circle time” is a pedagogical and educational tool that operates a revolution of classical school settings: no more desks. Students, sitting on the ground, form a circle, within which standard assessment is replaced by to openmindness, to non-judgmental listening, to personal time for sharing. Narrating this method is the focus of Sophie Chiarello’s documentary, which explores and represents the life of a primary classroom along five years. It’s not a documentary about children, rather, it’s a documentary where they, as protagonists, rise fundamental social issues: who are children? What relationship they bear with adults? What’s the role of eduction and pedagogy in this relationship? Nominated for the best documentary at David di Donatello 2023, and competing in Trieste Film Festival 2023, Sophie Chiarello’s Il cerchio is a a moment of reflection on the growth and formation of our society.
Produced by: Indigo Film, Rai Cinema
Regia di Sophie Chiarello
108'
Italia
2022
Sophie Chiarello is a french-italian filmmaker. Raised in France, she studied at FEMIS in Paris. She begins her Italian career as assistant director for – among others – Salvatores, Winspeare, Piccioni. She screenplayed and directed three short movies awarded in several festivals. Un filo intorno al mondo gets to the finals of Nastri d’Argento in 2006. She assists the direction of La banda dei babbi natale of Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo; then she directs her first movie, Ci vuole un gran fisico. She then decides to focus on documentaries, and in 2011 she writes and directs with Anna-Lisa Chiarello Ritals – Domani me ne vado, which wins the special jury prize at the Festival del Cinema Italiano of Annecy 2021.