Documentary / Unspecified

Caronte

Caronte (Charon) is set in Sicily, an island on the southern border of Europe. The Strait of Messina is the strip of sea that marks the fracture between this mythical place, recounted by Homer, and the rest of the European continent. Through our protagonists, Francesco, a young sailor, and Giovanni, a hermit shepherd, Charon recounts the cyclical nature of life and man’s transition from one season to another. The incessant movement of the Strait of Messina brings together all the elements of nature and it connects two apparently distant worlds indissolubly: the sea and the mountains. The symbol of this syncretism is a 17th-century painting by an unknown author, representing in turn a Madonna painting carried in triumph by two dolphins. The church where she is carried by the sea dominates the Strait from above. Caronte characters have an ancestral link with this place and its governing elements. They are asked to pass on an ancient knowledge from one generation to another.

Production company

Onirica

Director

N. Gringeri