Every morning, a school bus passes Denise and her cousins Jonathan and Walter, without picking them up. An urgent and extremely timely close depiction of a Roma family’s everyday life and vulnerability in Italy, where the winds of fascism are blowing again. In a suburb in southern Milan is Villagio delle Rose, the Village of the Roses, a legal Roma camp where a few hundred people live in caravans and wooden houses. Inside the gates, life goes on quietly – but outside, a storm is blowing. The camp is continuously used as a political weapon in politics where populist parties vilify and threaten its existence. For almost six years, Hanna Heilborn has followed one of the families in the village and the closeness gives her a unique insight into Roma everyday life far beyond stereotypes. Elegantly interwoven with archive clippings, news footage, and activist Dijana Pavlovic’s political struggle for the camp’s residents, the everyday depiction is contrasted with vulnerability – and the right to a decent life.
The Village of Roses
Rosornas by
25th TiDF: International Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Hanna Heilborn
- Cinematography: Stefania Vialetto, Stephanie Blanchard
- Editing: Dominika Daubenbüchel, Nils Eidvall
- Sound: Claes Lundberg (design)
- Music: József Balázs
- Production: Story AB
- Producers: Elin Kamlert
- Co-production: Film Stockholm, Film i Skåne, Kamlert Film
- Executive producer: Tobias Janson
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Sweden
- Production Year: 2023
- Duration: 87'
- Contact: The Swedish Film Institute
Thessaloniki Pitching Forum 2021
Age 13+
Hanna Heilborn
Filmography
2002 Hidden (short, co-direction)
2008 Slaves (short, co-direction)
2012 Sharaf (short, co-direction)
2015 Ruth (short)
2015 The Wave (short)
2016 Med hjertet i dansen (co-direction)
2023 Rosornas by | The Village of Roses
2008 Slaves (short, co-direction)
2012 Sharaf (short, co-direction)
2015 Ruth (short)
2015 The Wave (short)
2016 Med hjertet i dansen (co-direction)
2023 Rosornas by | The Village of Roses