E’ dedicata alle vallate occitane della Provincia di Cuneo la terza serata della rassegna cinematografica “Cherasco Movie”, in programma venerdì 9 aprile a partire dalle 21 all’auditorium civico di via San Pietro 41 a Cherasco.
In cartellone il cortometraggio “I ragazzi della Beò di Bellino” di Elisa Cerutti e Davide Vacchino (in concorso al festival Piemonte Movie gLocal Film Festival) e la docu-fiction "The girls of Lemon," by Barbara Allemand, who will be present at the end of the projection room for dialogue with the public.
"Girls Lemon" tells the amazing (but true) story of six girls still in their twenties, all from the same village, who in the early fifties enter the Italian national cross-country winning numerous podium finishes in national and international competitions: are Astegiano Elizabeth, Elizabeth Bettone, Margherita Bottero and Franca, Anna and Rita Tosello. These young skiers
-dubbed "the tornado dela valley" and "locusts" - between 1953 and 1958 there's a world leader in the Nordic combined and represent the integrity of the sporting spirit. But the reality with which we must face is that of tourism downhill skiing, a specialty that attracts many other sponsors: the Federation decides to "sacrifice" cross-country skiing, denying them participation in the Olympics and putting an end to " pink dream "of these six athletes.
Barbara Allemand's documentary tells the human side of the story, interviewing the protagonists of direct and alternating points of view between chats over a cup of tea and walking on the tracks where, half a century earlier, the "Lemon Girls" had won their first trophies. It 'a history of sport, of sacrifice and effort, but also of female liberation and a reflection on the "mountain people" and the policy choices that changed the winter sports in Italy.
Barbara Allemand , Turin, has been living for several years in New York, studying acting, screenwriting and directing. He also participated in theatrical productions Off Broadway. In 2006 he founded the production company Baracani, writing and directing the film Rebel Classified. He writes for film with Charles the Great and Fredo Valla.
opens the evening, the short film selected at 2010 Piedmont Area "I boys Beo Bellino ", which tells the celebrations involving the entire population of triennalle Bellino at the reenactment of the expulsion of the Saracens from Varaita, highlighting the great attachment to the traditions and folklore from the inhabitants of those areas.