CHIARA

by Susanna Nicchiarelli

Assisi, 1211. Chiara is eighteen years old and one night she runs away from home to join her friend Francesco: from that moment on her life changes forever. With charisma and conviction she breaks free from her family's constraints and stands up to the Pope himself. For herself, for the women who join her and for her dream of freedom. The story of a Saint. The story of a girl and her revolution.

Susanna Nicchiarelli was born in Rome in 1975. Philosophy graduate with a PhD at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, in 2004 she graduates in Film Direction at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. After a few shorts and documentaries, in 2009 she directs her first film, Cosmonauta, winner of Controcampo at the Venice Film Festival, followed by the Discovery of Dawn (2012), Nico, 1988 (2017), Best Film in Orizzonti, and Miss Marx, main competition at the Venice Film Festival in 2020. Chiara is her fifth film.

FILMOGRAPHY:

2020 Miss Marx

2017 Nico, 1988

2012 Discovery of Dawn

2009 Cosmonauta

Margherita Mazzucco - Chiara

Andrea Carpenzano - Francesco

Carlotta Natoli - Cristiana

Paola Tiziana Cruciani - Balvina

Luigi Lo Cascio - Cardinale Ugolino / Papa Gregorio IX

Director/Writer Susanna Nicchiarelli

Scriptwriter collaborator Chiara Frugoni

Director of Photography Crystel Fournier

Editing Stefano Cravero

Production Design Ludovica Ferrario

Costume Massimo Cantini Parrini

Hair Desirée Corridoni

Make-up Valentina Tomljanovic

Sound Adriano Di Lorenzo

Music Anonima Frottolisti

Sound Editor Daniela Bassani, Marzia Cordò

Sound Mixer Marc Bastien

Mixing Franco Piscopo

VFX Supervisor Massimiliano Battista

Producers Marta Donzelli, Gregorio Paonessa

Co-Producers Joseph Rouschop, Valérie Bournonville

Associated Producer Alessio Lazzareschi

Original Title: CHIARA

International Title: CHIARA

Format: DCP / 2K / 2.39:1 / Color / 5.1

Length: 106 min

Original Language: Italian