The docufilm Isolation presented in Venice

Presented within the Authors' Days ISOLAEDIPO Venice, isolation is a collective docufilm on what Europe experienced in 2020 in full pandemic, through the gaze of five directors of different nationalities: for Italy Michele Placido, for Germany Julia Von Heinz, for Sweden Olivier Guerpillon, the English director Michael Winterbottom and the Belgian Jaco Van Dormael. The authors, in the five short films lasting 15 minutes each, they talk about the Covid-19 epidemic and the consequent containment measures that have affected in social terms, psychological and economic aspects of European citizens.

The film will be released as in the cinema as an event on 4, 5 and 6 October 2021.

Isolation was attributed torecognition of Inclusion. To receive it, the five directors and Guglielmo Marchetti, CEO of Notorious Pictures and leader of the international co-production project. To deliver it, Silvia Jop of Isola Edipo. This ismotivation:

“For the ability to have been able to unite a world divided by the pandemic, restoring the perception of a composite and conscious horizon to our wounded eyes. Michele Placido, Julia Von Heinz, Jaco Van Dormael,  Olivier Guerpillon e Michael Winterbottom con Isolation, through the creation of a constellation of visions characterized by the expression of different cinematic identities, they perform an act of inclusion that is indispensable to our times and to the cinema that passes through them.”

Notorious Pictures ofGuglielmo Marchetti promoted the international co-production of the project, which was joined by important production partners from their respective countries: Maze Pictures di Philipp Kreuzer in Germania, Tarantulaby Joseph Rouschop in Belgium, Ingrid Lill Høgtun oversaw the Swedish segment as executive producer forFox in the Snow Films. The English episode is produced byRevolution Films by Winterbottom himself and Melissa Parmenter.

SYNOPSIS
Isolation is a collective docufilm by five great European authors called to tell the dramas and revolutions caused by the pandemic in their countries, each from a particular and intimate perspective and at the same time attentive to the social context in which the individual stories come to life.