Panorami italiani
I fratelli Segreto
Federico Ferrone, Michele Manzolini / Italy / 2025 / 78′
Three brothers left from nowhere, a name that seems like an omen: Segreto. From the poverty of Italy in the late 1800s to the feverish nights of Rio de Janeiro, the story of the Segreto brothers: emigrants, petty criminals, kings of the carioca night and the first filmmakers in Brazilian history. At least that is the story. In 1881, teenage brothers Pasquale and Gaetano Segreto left behind the poverty of Italy to build a new life in Rio de Janeiro. A few years later their younger brother Alfonso arrives with a Pathé camera and makes the first film in the history of Brazil. A film about the birth of cinema that resembles a fairy tale. Or perhaps a well-told lie.
Direction Federico Ferrone and Michele Manzolini
Editing Maria Fantastica Valmori
Music Simonluca Laitempergher
Production Paolo Carpignano, Juliana Carvalho, Jon Coplon
Produced by Stayblack, Bang Filmes, with Rai Cinema
with Nello Mascia (voice)
INTRASTEVERE CINEMA – Room 2, May 28, 9:30 p.m.
Q&A with the authors
Michele Manzolini, Federico Ferrone
For the past few years Michele Manzolini and Federico Ferrone have been playing with mixing archival, documentary and fiction images. Their films have been selected, among others, at the Venice, Karlovy Vary, Shanghai, Rome, Turin, DocLisboa, Visions du Réel, Jihlava, Docs Barcelona festivals, and at the European Film Awards (Efa), where “Il Varco,” nominated for best documentary, won the award for best European editing in 2020.