ABCinema - Nei nostri sogni

An escape into the forest, a hypnotic bunker, a whirling staircase, a leap into the void. "Dear spectator, in our film do not expect childish dreams or happy worlds", with these words a plural voice welcomes the spectator. Some kids are stuck in their nightmares, an imaginary of loneliness, disorientation and resignation. Jumping from one nightmare to another, like in a spiral game, they will finally be able to meet in a saving world where reality and dream come together and everything acquires balance, the ideal place in which to build a safe haven together. But what if reality was just another dream?

This film was born in a participatory video workshop carried out in Palermo between 2020 and 2021. The workshop involved a group of students from a lower secondary school together with second generation migrant peers. The plots that intertwine in the film have been woven starting from their imagination and are the result of a shared path. Each narrative and stylistic choice is the result of collective elaborations and writings, in which each student was able to tell a piece of himself and share fears and dreams with the group.