IL POSTO (A Steady Job)
(HD, 75’/52′, col)
by Mattia Colombo and Gianluca Matarrese
prod. Altara Films / Bocalupo Films
Visions du Réel Grand Angle
HotDocs Toronto World Showcase
Etats Généraux de Lussas
Festival dei Popoli
Thessaloniki IDFF Open Horizons
Guadalajara IFF
DMZ Korea IDFF
Nastri d’Argento Nominated best documentary
Each month, a multitude of nurses from the South of Italy cross the entire country to try their luck in an open competition for a job in the great hospitals of the North. There are just few positions for the thousands of candidates. The majority of them try several times a year. To save money, they travel over night on board of a low cost bus, that leaves them at the place to take the exam at dawn. Each of them carrying their own story, their own hopes and fears. An on-the-road documentary about the mirage of a job and the tragedy of a nation struggling with unemployment. A journey at the heart of a great social, moral and economic Italian crisis, that today has repercussions over all of Europe.