Bingo
Timur Ismailov
, Holland, 2009, 35mm, 27'
dom 12 sett, h. 15.00, Teatro Strehler
giov 16 sett, h. 16.30, Teatro Dal Verme
sab 18 sett, h. 20.30, Teatro Dal Verme
Regista/Director: Timur Ismailov
Paese/Country:Holland
Anno Produzione Film: 2009
Formato/Format: 35mm
Durata/Running Time: 27'
Produzione/Production: Netherlandfilm and Television Academy
Produttore/Producer:Maarten van der Ven
Sceneggiatura/Screenplay: Timur Ismailov, Bastiaan Tichler
Montaggio/Editing: Annelotte Medema
Fotografia/Cinematography: Lennart Verstegen
Sound Designer: Narek Nikoghosyan
Musica/Music: Sergiu Voloc
Cast: Sergiu Voloc, Dimitri Bilov, Marc Zac, Yasar Ustuner
Distribuzione: Timur Ismailov
Uno zingaro moldavo, un ex pugile russo e un insegnante di biologia ceceno. Un gruppo sgangherato si ritrova in Olanda per portare a casa la giornata giostrandosi tra lavori costantemente a rischio. Bingo racconta di una quotidianità vissuta senza permesso, del lato crudo che si cela dietro la ricerca di nuova dimensione e, nonostante tutto, dell'ingenua caparbietà di chi non vuole lasciarsi avvelenare dalla disillusione.
A Moldavian gypsy, a former Russian boxer and a Chechen biology teacher. A strange group meets in the Netherlands to take home their daily bread juggling between jobs that are constantly at risk. Bingo tells the story of everyday life without permits, the crude side behind the quest for a new dimension and, despite everything, the nave stubbornness of those who do not want to be let themselves be poisoned by disappointment.
Note di regia / Director's Satement
As a director and writer I had a strong urge to tell a story of an East-Eropean immigrant who lives in the Western Europe. It has to do with my background: I was born in the former USSR, in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. I grew up in a rather dramatical period in the Caucasus which was torn apart by the ethnical wars. As a child of a mixed marriage - my father is Azeri and my mother is Russian - I suffered from the growing nationalism on both sides. After the collapse of the USSR my family and I moved to Kalinigrad (Russia). In 2002 I immigrated to the Netherlands where I permanently live. The main character of my film is a young gypsy named Bingo. He left his homeland Moldavia (a former Soviet republic) and came to the Netherlands in search of better fate. In order to survive as an illegal immigrant he works for a demolition company together with Sergei, a former boxer from Russia, and Umar, a biology teacher from Grozny, Chechnya. Despite the hard circumstances Bingo maintains his sense of humour and joy of living. While his older friends become dispirited, the young gypsy follows enthusiastically his dream of earning enough money to build a house in his homeland Moldavia. His life's motto is: 'If life hands you lemons, make lemonade.' Such an optimistic character who is a real survivor was the main inspiration for me to make this movie. I wanted to show the seamy side of the prosperous Dutch society from the point of view of an East-Eropean gastarbeider (immigrant worker). However I didn't want to focus on the painful aspects of his existence. I was much more interested in his vitality, his will to live, his dreams as opposed to his dreary depressing environment. In other words, I wanted to focus on the donut, not the hole - as the saying goes and what Bingo himself surely does. I wanted the audience to sympathize with Bingo, not out of compassion for his situation (miserable plight) but out of respect for his positive attitude and fighter's mentality. In my film I strived for authenticity of imagery: I tried to capture the raw emotional truth using 'rough', unpolished aesthetics of a documentary. That was the only cinematic form which, in my opinion, agreed with the content, the narrative of the film. Moreover I wrote the movie with that form in my mind - true to life characters at the real-life setting. In order to achieve that documentary feel we used super 16mm camera and shot mainly handheld and principally with available light and on location. We filmed in Transvaal, a rough neighbourhood in the Hague, a haven for many illegal immigrants from all over the world. The mother of Bingo in the dream sequence is the mother of the actor who plays Bingo (Sergiu Voloc) and the scene is shot in the garden of his parental house in Moldova. So in this way I use elements of documentary (of real life) in order to enhance the plausibility of fiction. All in all I wanted to make a film which would be a combination of humour and melancholy, action and standstill, social commitment and visual poetry.
Timur Ismailov
Anno di Nascita/Date of Birth: 1977
Paese/Country: Azerbaijan
Biografia/Biography
Timur Ismailov was born and grew up in Baku (Azerbaijan) in 1977. He studied social and political sciences in Baku and economics and philosophy in Kaliningrad (Russia). In 2004 Timur was admitted to Netherlands Film Academy. In 2009 he graduated with his film BINGO, which he both wrote and directed.
Filmografia/FilmographyVivi's Honeymoon - 2007
Animator - 2008
High Tide - 2008
Hoogtij - 2008
Festival
Alternative International Short Film Festival 2009, Gijòn International Film Festival 2009, Nederlands Film Festival 2009
Premi ricevuti
Main Prize (Alternative International Short Film Festival 2009) Grand Prix Asturias (Gijòn International Film Festival 2009) Tuschinski Award (Nederlands Film Festival 2009)
