Maria, Pinuccia, Lia, Katia and Antonella are five sisters who live in an apartment in Palermo. They make a living by renting out doves for ceremonies. On a normal day at the beach, Antonella accidentally dies. Her death is going to turn upside down their relationships for the rest of their lives.
Born in Palermo in 1967, Emma Dante explores the subject of family and marginalisation through poetics of tension and madness with a hint of humour. She becomes a playwright and director after graduating from the National Academy of Dramatic Art “Silvio D’Amico”. In 1999, in Palermo, she creates her theatre company Sud Costa Occidentale, with which she wins the Scenario Prize 2001 for her project “mPalermu” and the Ubu Prize 2002 as an emerging, Italian artist. After winning several awards for her activity as a playwright and theatrical director (among them the Ubu Prize and the Golden Graal Prize), on 7 December 1999 she opens the theatrical season at La Scala in Milan directing Bizet’s CARMEN, conducted by Daniel Barenboim. In 2013; she’s in competition at the 70th Venice International Film Festival with her film VIA CASTELLANA BANDIERA, based on the book with the same name.
FILMOGRAPHY: 2021 – LA SORELLE MACALUSO 2013 – VIA CASTELLANA BANDIERA
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