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Pure Unknown

Sconosciuti puri

Italy, Switzerland, Sweden I 2023 I 93 min. I PG-13

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Every night, nameless bodies turn up in Dr. Cristina Cattaneo’s autopsy room. These are corpses or skeletons that are found without documents to prove their identities. They are the corpses of people who in life often belonged to the margins of society. A young runaway woman murdered. A homeless person who died of the cold. Or the countless victims of shipwrecks in the Mediterranean. They die far from home, often in solitude, invisible, anonymous. Cristina and her team take over these bodies, bringing to light the life they once had, restoring their dignity, their weight, their existence, their uniqueness. But recovering the identity of an unknown person is not easy.

Visions du Réel 2023 – Interreligious Award
Hot Docs 2023
Biografilm 2023 – Audience Award
Karlovy Vary IFF 2023
AJB DOCS 2023 – Special Mention in the Main Competition

  • Directors:

    Mattia Colombo
    Valentina Cicogna

  • Cinematography:

    Jacopo Loiodice

  • Editing:

    Valentina Cicogna

  • Producers:

    Sebastiano Luca Insinga
    Chiara Nicoletti

  • Languages:

    Italian, English

  • Subtitles:

    Lithuanian, English

  • Translator:

    Ieva Friggerio

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