Stella ciao
CH 2015 60'
Director: Vito Robbiani
Script: Mario Fabio,, Vito Robbiani
Camera: Vito Robbiani, Ariel Salati
Sound: Vito Robbiani, Marco Monti, Riccardo Studer
Editing:: Samir Samperisi
Music:: Sandro Schneebeli
Production:: MediaTREE
Fifty-year-old, Sardinian-born Silvio – a lover of jazz music and karaoke shows – manages the “Stella d’Oro” a restaurant-cum-lodging. Built on the Swiss side of Lake Maggiore more than a hundred years ago, the place has been accommodating less and less tourists, and a few asylum seekers. But its days are numbered: it is threatened by a property restoration project for a new private housing estate. Its few remaining days depict the passing of life in a place of encounter for the stories and dreams of people coming from different locations and cultures.
STELLA CIAO is the portrait of the last year and a half in the existence of a peculiar place, a unique slice of life as it was seized right before its destruction.