- Mimmo Villari is 29 years old and lives in Calabria, South Italy. In that period the first pirate radio experiences begin in Italy. Mimmo builds himself an FM transmitter and thus sets up Radio Perla del Tirreno. Through the chronology of radio recordings and films, we obtain the history of Mimmo and of his city. The voices of the radio reflect on politics, philosophy, civic education, creating a discourse that is the portrait of a society and an era.
Italy, 2024, 16 min., Italian with Bulgarian subtitles
Director: Noemi Arfuso
Scriptwriter: Noemi Arfuso
Music: Nico Palermo
Production: Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico, Naba
Director’s Biography:
Filmmaker and radio author. She wrote and hosted a radio program for the independent radio station Ciroma and worked in Budapest as a production assistant. She won the 2023 edition of the Cesare Zavattini Award to realize the short film Radio Perla del Tirreno. Radio Perla del Tirreno is her first film.