Film programme by Daria Deflorian

Viaggio a Jeju

In May 2025, Daria Deflorian closes the Busan International Performing Arts Festival with The Vegetarian, an adaptation of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Han Kang. After the premiere, she, Monica Piseddu and Andrea Pizzalis decide not to return home. They take some time away from the rest of the company to immerse themselves in the world of another novel by Han Kang, which will form the heart of their next theatrical work, We Do Not Part.  
And so begins their journey to Jeju. They set off as colleagues and return as friends, with that particular kind of friendship forged around a shared project which, by breathing in unison, becomes at the same time an act of resistance against the oppression of the speed, noise and violence of the present.
“A small space where we can finally live happily amidst the hell that surrounds us” as the philosopher “Bifo” Berardi puts it, speaking of friendship as a space of communication where no economic principle reigns and where one person’s pleasure is no longer distinct from another’s. 

Followed by a discussion with Daria Deflorian (director of Che dolore terribile è l’amore), Jacopo Quadri, Greta De Lazzaris moderated by Oriane Jeancourt

Siamo qui per provare

 
Daria is getting married and Antonio is the best man. They are two artists who have lived in the same building for years, but now she’s moving to another neighborhood. They get to work on a new project inspired by Federico Fellini’s Ginger and Fred, and bring in Emanuele, Monica, Francesco, Martina and Andrea.
First, tap dancing classes, as the script comes together on day at a time, with rehearsals in Rome, Rimini and France, in theaters shut down by Covid-19. Euphoria is running high, despite the uncertain times, and our theater troupe starts to resemble a gaggle of shipwreck survivors, bewildered by the way real life gets confounded with what is tentatively shaping up as the stage production.