BRIGANTI

a film by Bruno e Fabrizio Urso

 

Briganti is a short documentary film directed by Bruno and Fabrizio Urso. The documentary focuses on the Briganti Rugby association in Librino, a point of reference for young people living in the outskirts of Catania.

 
 

Produced by Andrea Randazzo, Fabio Saitto

Directed by Bruno Urso Fabrizio Urso

Subject and Treatment Bruno Urso Fabrizio Urso

Editor Luca Carrera

Director of Photography Premananda Franceschini

Original Music Giuliano Fondacaro

Mix Audio Alessandro Salvatori

A Production Point Nemo

With support by DG Cinema – DGAAP

and Briganti Rugby Librino

Festival distribution Prem1ere Film

International distribution Journeyman Pictures

Year of production 2018

Time and Genre 15 minuti / Documentario

Language Italiano

Subtitles Italiano, Inglese

 
 

The city of the future if not, indeed, the ideal city: the Japanese star architect Kenzo Tange had thought of Librino as a futuristic peripheral appendage of Catania, surrounded by greenery.

 
 
 
His project, however, fails to see the light and the residential constructions begun in the seventies, never finished, leave room for a progressive deterioration within a few decades. Huge and gaunt concrete buildings like gigantic skeletons, large streets in which cars whiz by and the constant roar of planes departing from the nearby Fontanarossa airport: Librino thus becomes an urban agglomeration that has almost 100,000 inhabitants in which neglect takes the windward.

The abandonment, often guilty, by the institutions and the degradation that welcomes and hosts delinquency and crime, have made Librino a populous satellite neighborhood but completely disconnected from the city center. A non-place with characteristics similar to the outskirts of many European cities, a black hole that threatens to suck in its inhabitants.
The prevaricating presence of organized crime over the years crushes the feeble presence of the state in the management of some areas of the neighborhood, and the high-rise buildings are transformed into lucrative drugstore squares constantly monitored by "lookouts" that allow illicit business to take place every day and in the sunlight , the very allocation of municipal housing becomes a difficult business to manage and control.

With many difficulties and always in the crosshairs of the underworld that does not stop destroying and stifling every redevelopment initiative, many realities try to involve the young people of the neighborhood in projects and initiatives all aimed at showing them different paths away from crime. However, it is not easy to work in Librino, operators and volunteers are threatened and hindered by the underworld that exercises suffocating control over the entire territory.
The Briganti Rugby Librino sports association is one of these realities. “Social inclusion thanks to the oval ball”: this is the title of several articles referring to what the Briganti represent for Librino. The history of this rugby club began in February 2006 with the aim of giving a chance to revenge the minors in the populous "at risk" neighborhood of the city of Catania, to demonstrate how sport can be a tool for inclusion and relationship. In more than ten years, the goal has been achieved, day after day, rescuing many children from discomfort, from crime, from the exploitation of child labor.

The Briganti di Librino are a rugby team, and much more. Theirs is a cry of freedom in front of symbols of drug dealing and drugs such as the Cement Building, a hymn that starts from the motto 3 coined together with the first group of boys who started to pick up the rugby ball at the San Teodoro field : “Love the oval and hate racism”.