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Sans moi (Without Me)
CH 2005 75'
Director: Danilo Catti
Sound: Riccardo Studer
Editing: Juliette Frey
Music: Ben Jeger
See also:
HUG - la trilogie de Richard Dindo. HUG - La maladie de la mémoire - Trois jeunes femmes
Sans moi
Ohne mich - Senza di me
Danilo Catti
Like so many other young people in Switzerland, Jeremy, Marie, Théodora, Saray, Rana, and Claudia have attempted suicide. During their stay of several weeks at UCA, a permanent Geneva University Hospital unit for adolescents in a state of crisis, they try to understand the meaning behind their ordeal. The documentary accompanies them for 18 months in their search for the reasons that caused them to try to kill themselves.
"They have tried to commit suicide, usually with
pills or medicine of one kind or another. They
suffer, they’re absent, or violent. They’re young.
In a crisis unit for adolescents in Geneva, a
team of psychologists tries to lead them back
towards life. Danielo Catti decided to follow
six of these precocious depressives to try and
better understand a social phenomenon, the
first cause of mortality among the young: the
desire to end one’s life when one has scarcely
begun to live its first moments. Principally
composed of sessions of psychotherapy, SANS MOI - OHNE MICH -SENZA DI ME enters the
innermost part of the problem with discretion
and amazing understanding. Lack of self-esteem,
guilt, hate, nostalgia for a lost childhood…
Between close-ups and more distant shots,
Danielo Catti begins, step by step, to grasp the
full extent of the malaise. At the heart of the
suffering: the relationship with parents for
which every young person bears the burden.
The solution? The dawn of awareness. This is
the path along which psychologists try to lead
adolescents. Not without some unwillingness
or anger. Like this young girl – a violent and
touching scene – who can’t stand people talking
to her about her father of whom, according
to her, she never thinks. Crises that often
receive little sympathy from friends, or, worse
still, are brushed off as a passing whim – from
which young people nevertheless emerge
stronger. When, a few months later, having
come close to death or suddenly realizing what
the problem was, they have overcome the
hurdle. But the fact remains that they could
have died."
Visions du Réel 2005
Danilo Catti
Born in 1955 in Lugano. 1976-81 Studied at INSAS (Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle et Techniques de Diffusion), Brussels. Diploma in film, TV and radio production. 1986 FEMI (Flemish European Media Institute). 1991-96 Numerous documentaries for TSI.
2008 GIU LE MANI
2004 SANS MOI - OHNE MICH- SENZA DI ME
2004 O CI SEI O TI
2003 L'HOMME-CAMION
2002 PORTRAIT D'UN HOMME HEUREUX
2000 GLI AMBASICATORI SCALZI
1999 WEIMAR E IL CAROSELLO DELLA STORIA
1998 L'ALTRO ZAINETTO
1997 BIANCO E NERO TORNANO A SCUOLA
1996 IL TEMPO DEI MULINI
1885 SVIZZERA SOTORRANEA
1994 SOIT DIT ENTRE NOUS
1992 NOSTALGIA
1979 FLOBARDS
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