Antonia

Ferdinando Cito Filomarino : 2015

Distinguished Italian poet Antonia Pozzi (1912–1938) was among those women who were at odds with the times in which they lived. Her poems record her inability to adapt to social norms and her desire to live fully, and in poetry she sought an escape from reality and from her own complex soul and emotional life. The film covers the last ten years of the life of the poet, spent in Milan during the twenty-year reign of fascism. At the age of sixteen, she frantically wrote in her diary in secret about her forbidden love for her high school professor, about their encounters, the torment, the passion. At the tender age of twenty-six, Antonia Pozzi took her own life. Up until then none of her poems had been published. Ferdinando Cito Filomarino's feature debut received a Special Jury Mention when it premiered in competition at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2015.