“A person who dies without a name is like a story without an ending”
Every night nameless bodies land in Dr. Cristina Cattaneo’s autopsy room. She calls them Pure Unknown.
The Pure Unknown belong to the fringes of society. They are homeless, prostitutes, runaway teenagers. Lately, they have mostly been migrants, rejected by the Mediterranean Sea onto the shores of Italy.
If all rights belong to the living, nothing is left to the dead. So what happens when the dead have lost their identity?
In the face of this growing multitude, no one seems concerned about their right to dignity.
No one but Cristina.
Director's note
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Data sheet:
PURE UNKNOWN (SCONOSCIUTI PURI)
creative documentary – 90′ / 52’ – 4k – 2023
director: Valentina Cicogna e Mattia Colombo
produced by: Jump Cut (IT)
in co-production with: Amka Films Productions (CH), Sysifos Film Production (SE) and RSI (CH)
supported by: Creative Europe MEDIA, MiC, Trentino Film Commission, Piemonte Doc Film Fund, Cultural Center Cantone Ticino, Eurimages
world sales: Deckert Distribution Gmbh
Festivals:
Visions du Réel 2023 (Interreligious Award)
Hot Docs 2023
Biografilm 2023 (Audience Award, Celebration of Lives Award for Cristina Cattaneo)
Karlovy Vary IFF 2023
AJB DOCS 2023 (Special Mention in the Main Competition)
DMZ DOCS 2023 (Special Jury Award in the International Competition)
Nuremberg Human Rights FF 2023
Contemporanea FF 2023
One World Slovakia 2023
MedFilm Festival 2023
RIDM 2023
Rome IDF 2023
Cinemamed Brussels 2023
Watch Docs HRFF 2023
Selected at:
IDS 2018
Dok Leipzig Co-pro Market 2019
Sunny Side of the Doc 2020
East Doc Platform 2021
FIFDH Geneve Imapct Days 2022
EURODOC 2020
DOK INCUBATOR 2022