Caterina – Song of the Fading Voices

An intimate portrait of Caterina Bueno, “the girl with the recorder”.
A tribute to a lifelong journey through traditional music, social changes and collective memories.

Caterina is a portrait of the main researcher and interpreter of traditional folk and peasant singing in Italy. Indeed, it was thanks to Caterina Bueno’s work (Fiesole, 1943 – Florence, 2007) that a wide repertoire of songs, orally transmitted up to the 20th century, was recovered and saved from oblivion. Since the earliest ‘60s, a life devoted to music and research took Caterina on national and international stages, making her a key figure in the cultural world of the time. Her path crossed those of Italy‘s major contemporary intellectuals, such as Dario Fo, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Umberto Eco, including artists such as Giovanna Marini, Fausto Amodei and Francesco De Gregori. Caterina represents an interesting journey through the social and cultural change occurring in Italy in the years of the economic boom and, more generally, reflects on the relationship of a country and a community with their own cultural and historical memory.

Directed by Francesco Corsi

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Produced by Kiné
With the support of MIBAC – Direzione Generale Cinema
Realized as part of the Programma Sensi Contemporanei Toscana per il Cinema
In collaboration with Associazione Culturale Bueno,, Istituto Ernesto De Martino,Archivio del Movimento operaio e contadino in provincia di Siena

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Official website: caterinabueno.com
Facebook: facebook.com/caterinadoc

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FESTIVAL

2019

60° Festival dei Popoli – Italian Competition – Audience Award MyMovies.it and Distribution Award “Gli Imperdibili”

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