An old lady feels that her days never end. She lives alone in her flat with her habits, her daily tasks that her age makes longer and more fatiguing with every day that goes by, and the glimpses of life seen through the window. Against this existence, with its so few happenings, Giuseppina has her liveliness and the wealth of her interior world.
“With A long day I wanted to tell a story speaking of my native land, my affections and my memories wich I felt coming out from the past.” Anna Bianco
documentary, 18’, 2004
written, produced, directed by Anna Bianco
production, distribution CURVATURA10
cinematographer Anna Bianco
music Antonio Della Marina
track “Beddu” Sharabà
editing Anna Bianco, Marco Zaccaria
AWARDED
45° FESTIVAL DEI POPOLI - Florence 2004 Special Jury Mention
“For the capability to give in just 18 minutes the semplicity of the daily life, and the deepness of the inner universe, of the elders' world.”
1° ECOVISION FESTIVAL - Palermo 2005 Best film Panorama section
“To Na' sciurnata longa (A long day) by Anna Bianco for the measured melancholy in the portrait of an old woman, focalising the loneliness of the elders and the richness of the memory, without to devote to the temptation of pathetic.”
BRESCELLO PROGETTO CINEMA - Brescello RE 2005 2° CLASSIFICATO - STORIE ITALIANE
6° MALESCORTO FILM FESTIVAL - Malesco VB 2005 Best film Non Fiction section
“For giving voice to a daily reality often forgotten: solitude. The delicate message is treated through a shooting and editing technique which transforms every methodic gesture of life into the memory of what has been and what will no longer be.”
SEDICICORTO FILM FESTIVAL - Forlì 2005 Special Jury Mention D/O/C section
9° UNIMOVIE Festival internazionale del cortometraggio - Pescara 2005 Best soundtrack Special Jury Mention A.C.M.A. “For treating in a realistic and effective way – in a documentaristic style – an elder woman's daily life made of memories and solitude.”
SHORTLISTED
Lucania film festival 2004, Matera
Festival dei Popoli 2004, Florence
Corto Imola Festival 2004, Imola
Rassegna Fiati Corti 2004,Treviso
Sguardi altrove 2005, Milan
Tekfestival 2005, Rome
Documentamadrid 2005, Madrid
EcoVision Festival 2005, Palermo
A corto di donne 2005, Naples
Brescello Progetto Cinema 2005, Brescello-RE
Arcipelago Film Festival 2005, Rome
Euganea Movie Movement 2005, Padova
Immagini di notte 2005, Bergamo
Malescorto 2005, Torino
Molisecinema 2005, Campobasso
Collecchio VideoFilm 2005,Parma
Io, Isabella 2005, Matera
Sedicicorto 2005, Forlì
Festival internazionale Cinema delle Donne 2005, Torino
Unimovie 2005, Pescara
Immaginaria 2005, Bologna
Interfilm 2005, Berlin
Il cinema del reale 2006, Lecce
La città del sole 2006, Arezzo
Festival du Film de Strasbourg 2006, Strasbourg
DaKINO 2006, Bucarest
