Assisted suicide, the latest Coda film inspired by the Welby case arrives in Cagliari
A story inspired by the figure of Piergiorgio Welby, who passed away fifteen years ago, a pioneer in the battle for assisted suicide and for the right to refuse persistent treatment in Italy
On the day when the first green light for assisted suicide arrives for an Italian patient, in Cagliari it is screened at the Cinema Odissea (at 9 pm), after the World Première at the Social Justice Film Festival in Seattle (USA) and the Roman premiere at the Cinema Farnese, "The story of a tear", a new feature film written and directed by the Sardinian director Giovanni Coda, a story inspired by the figure of Piergiorgio Welby, who died fifteen years ago, pioneer of the battle for assisted suicide and for the right to refuse persistence therapeutic in Italy.
The story, told by Welby himself in the book "Ocean terminal" edited by Francesco Lioce, has become a film with Sergio Anrò, Bruno Petrosino and Gianni Dettori. A work that, starting from Welby's life, wants to be a testimony of civil commitment in support of rights not yet recognized.
Welby became a national case in 2006 when, ill, he repeatedly asked for the interruption of the treatments that kept him alive.
"It's a film that hybridizes multiple languages," explains the director. "Dance, music, theater, photography, cinema, documentary filter a world made of voices, bodies, memories, desires, sufferings and last tears. It is a film about rights, identity, life and death, inextricably embraced. They ask for freedom to choose and express themselves. An immense and necessary issue, which today more than ever needs to be narrated, not only by politics and the mass media ".
Produced by Labor Cinema and co-produced by Moon Arts with the support of the Sardegna Film Commission Foundation and distributed by Ac Labor, it already boasts several awards such as Best Documentary at the New Renaissance Film Festival (London - UK) and Best Experimental Film at Mannheim Arts and Film Festival (Berlin).
It was also selected as a feature film in competition at the Florence Queer festival and in the final in Syracuse (New York - USA), San Antonio (Texas - USA).
It will return to Rome on 8 December for the "Fuorinorma" review and will be in Naples at the Omovies Film Festival at the end of December.
(Unioneonline / vl)
