Film Off17 | International Documentary Competition
Womeness
YEAR: 2025
Director: Yvonne Sciò
Italy 2025
Running Time: 59′ English, French, Italian
Production: Magic Moments Film, Luce Cinecittà, with the support of the Ministry of Culture, Directorate-General for Cinema and Audiovisual
Starring: Tomaso Binga, Dacia Maraini, Sussan Deyhim, Emma Bonino, Setsuko Klossowska De Rola
Screenplay: Yvonne Sciò
Cinematography: Marco Giulio Waldis, Enrico Datti
Editing: Maria Fantastica Valmori
Music: Lorenza Calamandrei
Regional Premiere
SYNOPSIS
WOMENESS is the natural evolution of Five Women in the documentary film of which Yvonne Scio is the author, director and producer and at the center of which 5 women, met with the director between Italy, France, the United States and Morocco tell their lives and, above all, their battles face to face open in favor of women and beyond: from the writer Dacia Maraini to Emma Bonino, politics and civil rights activist; From Susann Deyhim, Iranian composer and singer in exile in Tomaso Binga, visual verb artist who uses her body to contest male power until Setsuko Klossowski de Rola, Japanese artist and wife of the painter Balthus.
WOMENESS is the natural evolution of Five Women in the documentary film of which Yvonne Scio is the author, director and producer and at the center of which 5 women, met with the director between Italy, France, the United States and Morocco tell their lives and, above all, their battles face to face open in favor of women and beyond: from the writer Dacia Maraini to Emma Bonino, politics and civil rights activist; From Susann Deyhim, Iranian composer and singer in exile in Tomaso Binga, visual verb artist who uses her body to contest male power until Setsuko Klossowski de Rola, Japanese artist and wife of the painter Balthus.
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September 24
MASSIMO THEATRE HALL
TIME: 9:30 PM
TIME: 9:30 PM
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