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Ligia

Original title Ligia

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Portrait of Ligia, a Romanian Roma woman who reads the letters of her daughter confined to a prison and tells of life for 15 years in a camp barracks on the outskirts of Bari, in southern Italy, and her desire to finally have a home.

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Author/s Giovanni Princigalli

Born in Bari, Italy, where he studies history, sociology and anthropology at Unversitity Of Bari with a thesis about nomadism, emigration and travel. After he studied visual anthropology with Annie Comolli in Paris and he taken a master in cinema at university of Montreal, where he lives since 2003. He won awards at Sociaty of Visual Anthropology, Ethnological Film Festival of Belgrad, Rencontres cinématographiques de Digne Les-Bains, Mediterraneo Video Festival del Documentario Internazionale. He was teacher of documentary and italian cinema at university UQAM and McGill in Montréal.

Research Giovanni Princigalli
Photography Giovanni Princigalli
Sound Giovanni Princigalli
Editing Giovanni Princigalli