original title:
Devoti tutti
directed by:
screenplay:
cinematography:
Andrea Locatelli, Judith Benedikt, Allen Moore, Richard Chisolm, Jon Reiss
editing:
producer:
Thomas Bogner, Gioia Avvantaggiato, Rebecca Messner
production:
Tausend Rosen, GA&A Productions, Long Meadow Productions
country:
Austria / USA / Italy
year:
2018
film run:
70'
format:
colour
status:
Ready (10/07/2018)
Devoti Tutti is a story of how women live with sexual abuse, how they feel, and what they do to survive. At the core of the film is a relationship between three women: Berna, the filmmaker, Angela, impoverished mother of three and sexual abuse survivor, and Agatha, the patron saint of Catania who was murdered almost 2000 years ago by the governor whose sexual demands she dared to refuse. By juxtaposing Agatha’s story with the lives of abuse survivors, Devoti Tutti reveals how a community’s reverence of its Saint masks the deep misogynistic realities of the lives of abuse survivors.