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THE FIFTH POINT OF THE COMPASS, 2017

documentary feature film cinema | Germany, Italy | 80 min | DCP 2K | 5.1 Dolby Surround | 2017

Rhaeto-Romanic, German, Portuguese with optionally English, German, Italian or Portuguese subtitles

SYNOPSIS

On 1 June 2009 a passenger plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. My cousin Georg, returning from Brazil, was among the 228 dead. He grew up as an adopted child in a small Italian village in the midst of the Dolomites; he had travelled to the city of Salvador da Bahia on the coast of Brazil in search of his biological mother. Seven years later his adoptive brother, Markus, crosses the ocean to follow Georg’s footprints into his own past.

The drama is reflected in geological dimensions, in primeval depths. Where does mankind’s desire to learn how the world was created come from? Where do we come from? There is stardust, the primary matter, the answer to the question, in the rocks at the bottom of the ocean. The origin of all life can be studied, but not necessarily the origin of an individual life.

Martin Prinoth took his film to the bottom of the sea – where the primary stone is found. And where his cousin Georg’s body sank when he was killed in a plane crash over the Atlantic in 2009. Georg was adopted, like his brother Markus. They were born in Brazil and moved into a village in the Dolomites when they were small children, with no knowledge of their origin and who were or are their biological mothers. “The Fifth Point of the Compass” goes on an exceptionally sensitive and attentive quest for the roots and identities of its protagonists – from South Tyrol to Brazil and finally to the bottom of the ocean. [DOK Leipzig]

CITATIONS

“Ein sehr großes Erlebnis, diesen Film zu sehen!” Dietrich Kuhlbrodt (german film critic)

“Un documentario potente e complesso.” Maddalena di Tolla Deflorian (italian film critic)

“Mprescions stersces y critiches.” Ulrike Kostner (ladin film critic)

„Auf eindrucksvolle und sehr intime Weise nehmen wir als Zuschauer Teil an einer filmischen Forschungsreise, in deren Zentrum der Schicksalsbegriff steht und fast mikroskopisch sichtbar wird.“ Nicolas Humbert

„Der Film verhandelt die Frage nach Identität, Zugehörigkeit und der Bedeutung des Ursprungs – für das einzelne Subjekt, aber auch für den Menschen im Allgemeinen.“ Christine Kofler

„Per aver saputo costruire un racconto solido, coinvolgente e a tratti molto emozionante sul tema dello sradicamento e della ricerca dell`identità. Al suo primo lungometraggio, il giovane regista evidenzia la sua personale ricerca stilistica che, anche se ancora in via di definizione, guarda ai grandi maestri , e in particolar modo a Werner Herzog, per trovare un’ originale relazione con la materia filmica che riflette e analizza sè stessa.“ Statement of the jury at Euganea film festival for best documentary.

„Perché con realismo a tratti disturbante traccia i confini di un mondo solo in apparenza liberatorio come quello delle adozioni. La contrapposizione tra il tranquillo villaggio delle Dolomiti e l’alienante strada brasiliana da cui provengono i tre orfani è molto efficace, descrive una frontiera opaca dove le identità si confondono e nulla è risolto su nessun fronte. Markus, l’adulto condannato a restare bambino perché senza radici, ci porta a camminare su un sentiero impervio e ce lo mostra cosi com’è: può portare da qualche parte oppure no, bisogna camminare.“ Statement of the jury at Migranti film festival for best documentary.

“Un racconto solido e appassionante attraverso due continenti, sostenuto dal bisogno profondo del protagonista di ricercare la propria identità.” Visioni DOC Award

“Grazie al rigore e alla suggestione nel maneggiare una materia delicatissima, il regista è riuscito a creare un avvincente poema sull’identità e sulla memoria individuale e collettiva, raccontando una storia di domande che rimarranno senza risposta.” Visioni DOC D.E-R Award

AWARDS

> VisioniDOC for best italian documentary debut | Visioni Italiane Bologna, Italy
D.E-R. Award | Student Prize of DAMS University Bologna, Italy
Best Documentary | Migranti Film Festival, Italy
Best Documentary | Euganea Film Festival, Italy
Nomination for Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize DOK Leipzig, Germany
Nomination for Euregio Student Prize, Bolzano Filmfestival Bozen, Italy

SCREENINGS

60th DOK Leipzig | International Programme
42nd Mostra São Paulo | New Filmmakers Competition
25th Visioni Italiane Bologna | Documentary Competition
28th Cinema del Film Africano Milano | Extr’A Competition
32nd Bolzano Filmfestival Bozen | Documentary Competition
15th Dokfilmwoche Hamburg | Dokland Hamburg
47th Sehsüchte Film Festival | Documentary Competition
66th Trento Film Festival | Documentary Competition
2nd Migranti Film Festival | Documentary Competition
17th Euganea Film Festival | Documentary Competition
1st Dolomitale Film Festival | Opening Film
19th Filmfestival Radstadt | Competition
14th Sole Luna Doc Treviso | Competition
14th Sole Luna Doc Palermo | Competition
9th iREP Lagos | Competition

STREAM ON

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TV / CINEMA RELEASE

RAI Italy Mai 2018, December 2018
Cinema release Germany November 2018
Cinema release Italy April 2018
TV release RAI Italy Mai 2018

SHOWN AT

> SchulKinoWoche Hamburg 19. – 23.11.18
> Attending the Euromed Doc Market Spain 11. – 14.10.2018

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PRESS VOICES

> Le Parole e le Cose (philosophic text on the film in Italian language)
> Mostra São Paulo
> Alto Adige (Italian journal)
> La Usc di Ladins (Rhaeto-Romanic journal)
> Rai Radio Wohnzimmer
> Franzmagazine (Italian/German journal)
> FF Kultur (German journal)
> DOK Spotters Radio
> Salto Kultur (German journal)