On Saturday, October 4, 2025, from 5:00 PM, "Work Stories" will be held at the "Lodovico Giordani" Iron Museum (in via del Manestro n.107 in Brescia). Global and domestic, yesterday and today: two faces of contemporary work through the documentary cinema of the Roberto Gavioli National Competition, a prize and archive promoted by MUSIL since 2008.
"Nimble fingers", by Parsifal Reparato, tells the story of migrant women workers in the factories of the world's largest electronics brands in Vietnam. For a year, the anthropologist filmmaker lived in Vietnam, between the outskirts of Hanoi and a remote Muong village in the Northern highlands of the country, where he managed to live with this community and tell their conditions, never before told through audiovisual means. This research recently led to the creation of the new film SHE, which just had its world premiere in Locarno and will be selected in several international festivals in the coming months.
"Banzavóis" by Lorenzo Casali, winner of the 2024 'Roberto Gavioli' National Film Competition, recounts the radical transformation process of the former Isotta Fraschini industrial area in Saronno, twenty kilometers from Milan. The director followed the work for two years, creating a narrative that is a kaleidoscopic journey into the history of the site, abandoned for 30 years. In Banzavóis, the factory becomes a space for a narrative where memory of work, anti-fascism, conflict, and decommissioning intertwine.
The film's title takes up a term coined by Carlo Emilio Gadda, in assonance with "mais" (corn), to refer to maize, a symbol of Lombard agricultural production.
An aperitif with the author and Silvio Grasselli, film critic and President of the Competition Jury, will follow.
For information and reservations: sanbartolomeo@musilbrescia.it - Tel. 340 60 86 855
For more information on Nimble Fingers:
https://www.facebook.com/shenimblefingers
https://www.instagram.com/she_nimblefingers/
https://www.antropica.org/it/project/she-lei/
https://www.antropica.org/it/project/nimble-fingers/
https://www.facebook.com/antropica.film
https://www.facebook.com/parsifal.reparato
https://www.instagram.com/antropica.film/
https://www.instagram.com/parsifalreparato/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/79299004/
https://x.com/Antropica_film
https://x.com/parsifalrep
For more information on Banzavóis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9y6ic-Wq6E
https://www.filmmakerfest.com/FilmFestival/2457