The Goodbye | Documentary | 71 minutos | 2024 | Argentina | English Subs

Sinopsis

After the death of her grandfather, Antonio Bonino, Toia found six negatives proving that he was a member of the Fascist Party and an aide to Benito Mussolini. Influenced by this discovery, the director sets out to trace her male family lineage, whom the end of World War II brought to Argentina. Instead of a clarification, however, the past crumbles and disintegrates into a mosaic of archival material, family films, excerpts from personal diaries and fragments of the works of Roberto Rossellini or Luchino Visconti. But it is the meanings that emerge from the combination of disparate images that offer answers and fill the information vacuum that has shaped generations of the family. The dynamics of the Bonino family's male-female relationships have a much darker basis than the social context of the time. In the story of grandfather, father, cousins and sons, Toia also finds a story of identity and of the role of wives, mothers, grandmothers and daughters in a history shaped by men. “Nothing was expected of the women in my family. That´s made witnesses of us. This is my story.”

Ficha técnica

Dirección: Toia Bonino

Producción ejecutiva: Alejandra Grinschpun, Tomas Eloy Muńoz, Valeria Bistagnino

Coproductor: Alejandro de la Fuente

Guion: Nicolas Testoni, Gustavo Galuppo, Toia Bonino

Montaje: Gustavo Galuppo

Sonido: Mercedes Gaviria

Fotografía y cámara: Armin Marchesini Weihmüller, Toia Bonino

Intérpretes: Marvi Bonino, Chiara Bonino, Toia Bonino, Juan Valle

Casas productoras: Alita Cine (Argentina), Mostra Cine (Argentina).

Casa coproductora: Atacama Film (Italia).

Lista de festivales

28 Ji.hlava IDFF, International Documentary Film Festival | Jihlava, República Checa | 2024 | Selección Opus Bonum | Mejor montaje y Student Jury Award. 26 BAFICI, Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente | 2025 | Competencia Argentina. 8 EPA, Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de El Palomar | 2025 | Selección Huellas del Pasado. 37 Festival La Mujer y el Cine | Buenos Aires, Argentina. | 2025 | Sección Panorama 3 FICPBA, Festival Internacional de Cine de la Provincia de Buenos Aires | 2025 | Selección Panorama argentino Festival de Cine Ibero-Latinoamericano de Trieste, Italia | 2025 |
Toia Bonino
Toia Bonino (1975), Argentine filmmaker of Italian origin, studied visual arts and psychology in Buenos Aires. Her films straddle the line between biographical narrative and essay and deal with violence and the clash with power. The main character of her feature debut Orione (2017), followed by Seeing Red (2020) and Engomado (2021), is a prisoner.

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