Normal
Adele Tulli’s Normal is a journey through stereotypes about gender,
in a society such as the Italian one, between patriarchal traditions and breaks from the pattern. From childhood on, we are
“educated” to be “proper” male and female. Normal is what is subject to the norm, not what is “natural.” The preparation of
a wedding with the suggestions for the bride-to-be; the coach teaching the boys how to hook up with girls; the selections
for Miss Italy exposing the paradox of girls who dream to become scientists while showing themselves off in bikini … Normal
shows a complex, multilayered gaze that questions the viewer. (Cristiana Paternò, Cinecittà News)
Director's Biography
Adele Tulli
In 2018,
Adele Tulli completed her PhD at the University of Roehampton in London where she explored subversive film aesthetics within
queer and feminist contexts. She is interested in gender studies and visual anthropology. Her films “365 Without 377”, about
the struggles of the LGBT community in India, and”Rebel Menopause”, about the feminist activist Thérèse Clerc, have won several
awards.
Film Selection: Normal (2019, doc) - Rebel Menopause (2014, doc short) - 365
Without 377 (2011, doc)
European Panorama Documentary 2019
Adele Tulli
Italy / Sweden
2019
color
70 minutes
Italian
OV with English subtitles
Cinematography
Clarissa Cappellani, Francesca Zonars
Editing
Ilaria Fraioli, Elisa Cantelli, Adele Tull
Sound/Sounddesign
Davide Pesola
Music Andrea Koch
Producer(s) Valeria Adilardi, Luca Ricciardi, Laura Romano
Production
FilmAffair, AAMOD - Audiovisual Archive of the Democratic
and Labour Movement, Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Intramovies, RAI Cinema, Ginestra Film
World Sales
Slingshot Films
Austrian Premiere
World Premiere
Berlinale 2019
Weltpremiere / World Premiere
Berlinale 2019
Premierenstatus
/ Premiere Status
Austrian Premiere
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