PARADISO winning its 11th award

The Film Documentary “PARADISO” by Alessandro Negrini, entirely filmed in Derry, Northern Ireland, triumphs at the Award Ceremony of “Docucity Film Festival”in Milan, winning its 11th award:   The film has been awarded two prizes at the Award Ceremony, including the Audience Award:

For the capability of bringing to the fore the history of Northern Ireland with lightness and,at the same time, poetry and irony. Paradiso is able to capture a community in a lyrical way, from the point of view of the two sisters and through the music, that becomes the voice of the entire city.

PARADISO was among the movies that we really loved, but couldn´t screen during the 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge, simply because there wasn´t enough screening time. Great to see that this poetic journey receives well deserved attention.

Derry, Northern Ireland: Roy Arbuckle decides it’s time to challenge one of the monstrosities left by the war: fear. He wants to reunite his former Showband, The Signetts and his formers musicians, now in their seventies, organizing a major dance night and get Protestants and Catholics dancing together again in The Fountain, a dying Protestant ghetto. A colourful, melancholic and ironic musical journey through a ghetto that, even if it find itself in its last dance, it doesn’t want to miss a single step of it

pictured: Roy Arbuckle in PARADISO directed by Alessandro Negrini