YEAR: 2023

Director: Bernadette Wegenstein
Austria USA Italy 2023 D. 65′
PRODUCTION: Waystone Productions LLC
Narration voice: Donatella Finocchiaro
Screenplay: Bernadette Wegenstein
Photography: John Benam, Judith Benedikt, Allen Moore
Editing: Stefan Fauland, Edoardo Morabito
Music: Markus Gartner, Clarice Assad, Xandi Waystone

Regional Premiere

Meet the audience: director Bernadette Wegenstein, editors Stefan Fauland, Edoardo Morabito and actress Donatella Finocchiaro

SYNOPSIS
Through magical realist animations in the style of baroque chiaroscuro, Devoti Tutti returns to the martyred Saint Agatha of Catania a voice she never had. Alongside a chorus of the citizens of Catania and the stories of real abuse survivors, Devoti Tutti shows how a community’s reverence for its saint masks misogynist realities. In her cell Agatha is kept company by her breasts, which her tormentors severed from her body—a reminder of the violence she suffered, but also of her refusal to submit to a man’s desire. Together with the flying breasts, Agatha escapes from the chamber where she has been held prisoner for two millennia and flies out over the ocean and into her own self-creation.