The creative documentary ‘Scalamara’ tells of the dream of a man of 71 who is still looking for his mother who abandoned him as a child and who has become over the course of his difficult life an unattainable chimera.
A 110 min. creative documentary chosen for the 60th Venice Biennale on the past and present of a corner of the world, a work dealing with images sunk between memory and reality.
Two genocides: the first perpetrated by Hutu extremists against the Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda in 1995; the second, in ex-Zaire, is the killing by Tutsi of the Hutu who escaped Rwanda.