NON CI È STATO REGALATO NIENTE

Annita “Laila” Malavasi was an Ital­ian partisan during the Second World War and one of the fewfemale commanders in the resistance. She spent over a year in the Apen­nines, fighting against the German occu- ­pation. At the same time, she had to assert herself in the male-dominated Italian society.

This portrait of Laila and two of her female comrades, Pierina “Iva” Bonilauri and Gina “Sonia” Moncigoli, highlights what the Resis­tenza meant to them and many other women. This is a story of emancipation before and after Italy’s liberation from fascism.

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ERIC ESSER was born in 1975. After studying Media Informatics, he studied Documentary Filmmaking at the Filmarche Berlin and the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. His films include: BUNS (short, 2003), NOVEMBER (short, 2004), CEVAPCICI (short doc, 2006, co-direction), DAWN OF THE DORKS (short, 2006), CHAJA & MIMI (short doc, 2009-2013), and NON CI È STATO REGALATO NIENTE (doc, 2014).

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