The documentary is inspired by the autobiography of Tommaso Bordonaro “La Spartenza”, which won the Pieve 1990 award for the best unpublished diary. “Spartenza” means separation and departure. Bordonaro emigrated in the USA in 1948 and the documentary is located between Bolognetta and New Jersey. His story is a fragment of the overall story of migrations, touching and unique because it is narrated in first person by a migrant. We are interested in the uniqueness and particularity of its history: the witness of a single individual among millions of migrants, told through the book and about four hours of private films.

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Directed by: Salvo Cuccia
Screenplay: Salvo Cuccia, Federica Cuccia
Production: Abra&Cadabra  con Rai Cinema
In collaboration with: Michael Secholt-Shoot&Post
Supported by: Sicilia Film Commission, Comune di Bolognetta, Fondazione Fincantieri, USEF, Comune di Villafrati, Comune di Marineo
Producer: Eleonora Cordaro
Editing: Letizia Caudullo
Cinematography: Alfredo Betrò
Running time: 60’
Country: Italy
Year: 2018
Contacts: Abra&Cadabra | abra.cadabra@hotmail.it | www.abraecadabra.it

“I am familiar with those places, I come from a small town in the province of Palermo. This story touches me intimately and stimulates not only my emotional state but above all the desire to rebuild the outlines and the context. Perhaps today it could be a Syrian or an African who emigrates with his family to document everything with a small camera from his point of view: it would be a truth far greater than those told by thousands of televisions. The film adopts that perspective, on the side of those who lived”. (Salvo Cuccia)