Gaia Giani

Pauline, a beguiling woman in her 60s, returns to her hometown, Turin, for the first time since she was ten years old. She has inherited her aunt’s apartment in town. In Turin Pauline contacts Dr. Angela Gualtieri, a psychologist whom she had met abroad some time before; Angela runs a maternity centre, the Melograno, a support centre where both mothers to be and young mothers with post natal depression seek help. At the Melograno they are constantly short of help, that’s why Angela asks Pauline to give her a hand in setting up an in-house archive collecting different material relating to maternity: video interviews to new mothers, mothers diaries, photo portraits of mother and child. Pauline accepts and starts her work plunging deep in an emotional material that touches her strongly: the controversial feelings experienced by women in their relation with the child.

The film looks again at recent events from a female point of view, through the first-hand accounts provided by the diaries of three women. Rather than focusing on the alleged objectivity of facts, the film gives space to a chorus of voices that narrate those events in first person, visually supported by archival footage of the period, drawn from the most varied sources - institutional, public, militant and private. Anita, Teresa and Valentina come from different Italian regions and different social backgrounds, but share the same feelings: they no longer feel as part of a society based on the patriarchal family, on the power of "husbands" and on the supremacy of males, which requires them to be efficient mothers, obedient wives and virtuous daughters.

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More then forty years have been gone since the day in which Jole Ruglioni founded in 1972 La Casa dei Bambini – Childrens’ House, one of the first Montessori's school in Milan. For four decades the rooms, the walls, the creaking stairs og the 19th century house have welcomed little guests. Now the house isn't anymore a school it is a private house: walls, rooms have been destroyed, so the stairs too, heart of the school is not anymore there. By the way for a lot of people, pupils and parents the Building of Porpora street will remain the Montessori school of Jole. the film tells about the last months of activity before moving. Among learning, playing, pass, present and future the school daily school life and the founder's memories. It is a personal and intimate journey in the universe of childhood.