CineDì – Italienisches Kino am Dienstag
presents:

01.10.2019 at 20:00 at Kino in der Kulturbrauerei, Schönhauser Allee 36, Berlino

NORMAL
by Adele Tulli

Camera: Clarissa Cappellani, Francesca Zonars
Editing: Ilaria Fraioli, Elisa Cantelli, Adele Tulli
Music: Andrea Koch
Italy/Sweden 2019, 70 Min, Italian with German subtitles

At 19:30: Welcome Toast with the Director
At 20:00: beginning of the film

After the film: Q&A with the Director Adele Tulli

Adele Tullis’s formally straightforward but aesthetically convincing documentary examines rigidly defined gender roles and the uncritical submission to the dictates of (hetero)normativity. Turning her camera’s gaze on everyday actions, rituals and scenes, the director makes some of the situations she records seem disconcerting by juxtaposing sounds and images in a contradictory montage. In long, static shots she depicts girls being made up to look like princesses; a father accompanying his son to a motorcycle race; and a group of screaming teenage girls having their photos taken with an idolised YouTube star. She also shows boys playing first-person shooter games and Gotcha; she follows the photo shoot of a newly married couple, watches hen nights getting out of hand, films a course designed to show young men how to become alpha males, and another in which women learn how best to serve their husbands in marriage. Tulli remains consistently observant, almost distant, throughout. But in the end, we realise that this succession of countless uncommented stereotypical actions does contain a commentary after all.

Curated by Mara M. in collaboration with Missing Films

Thanks to the the Italian Institute of Culture and to the Crowdfunding supporters.

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Official Media Partner: TAXI DRIVERS
Distribution: Missing Films: https://www.missingfilms.de/

Tickets: https://www.cinestar.de/berlin-kino-in-der-kulturbrauerei/veranstaltung-cinedi-presents-normal-omu