World Alzheimer's Day
MOVIE SCREENING
Stanze by Amedeo Sartori
20.9.2025
Short film - 17 minutes
IT with DEU sub.
Directed by Amedeo Sartori
At 11 AM
Event
World Alzheimer's Day
MOVIE SCREENING
Stanze by Amedeo Sartori
20.9.2025
Short film - 17 minutes
IT with DEU sub.
Directed by Amedeo Sartori
At 11 AM
To mark World Alzheimer's Day, celebrated on Sunday, September 21, the Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation is pleased to present the short film Stanze, directed by South Tyrolean filmmaker Amedeo Sartori, on Saturday, September 20, at 11.00 AM in the Black Box.
A voiceover describes an intense memory among the images, sharing with the viewer a reflection on the value of preserving, with commitment and affection, those unpredictable moments of tenderness, revealing fragility and beauty in their fleeting presence.
The short film, shot inside the Alzheimer's Center at the Don Bosco Retirement Home in Bolzano, is an intimate interpretation of the concept of time and memory, whose protagonists are the residents of a suspended place, where memories and feelings meet in search of their identity.
In this film, Sartori, instead of describing life and routine within the Alzheimer's Center, preferred to build an audiovisual narrative based on one of his memories, making this place and its residents the absolute protagonists of an intimate story. This is a reflection on aging, illness, and the importance of preserving one's memory, especially in those brief moments of tenderness in which fragility and beauty are revealed.
Marked by the rhythm of the voiceover, the camera moves calmly around the Center, whose gaze is fixed on a suspended moment in time, searching for a dialogue between immobility and movement.
Free entry and free guided tour at 10:00 AM.
The screening will be followed by a talk between the director, Carmela Surace, health carer, and Silvia Meotto, Manager of the Don Bosco Retirement Home.
Photo Gallery
Amedeo Sartori
Amedeo Sartori, also known as Zac, (1990) is a self-taught filmmaker from South Tyrol. From a very young age, he has devoted himself to making short films, fueling a growing passion for the seventh art in all its forms and expressions, and consistently cultivating his own artistic research.
His work is characterized by a strong focus on the themes of time, memory, and movement, with a particular interest in the relationship between perception and image.
He has several short films and documentaries to his credit, including the horror short film Enemy (2024-in distribution) and Bianca (2025-in finalization), the documentaries Respiri (2022) and Stanze (2024), the latter selected, among others, at the Edera Film Festival and awarded at the Bracciano International Film Festival. He is also the author of the photographic book Nel vedere lungo il fiume, edited by the Cooperativa Lungomare di Bolzano and published by the bruno publishing house in Venice.
Ph. Giordano Di Stasio
Don Bosco Retirement Home
The Don Bosco Retirement Home is located at Via Milano 170 in Bolzano and is the largest of the four facilities managed by the Bolzano Social Services Agency (ASSB).
It houses 157 residents, including patients from the Alzheimer's Center, founded in 2017 as a protected and safe environment.Particular attention has been paid to the choice of materials and colors, designed to respect the sensory sensitivity of patients. The facility also has some special spaces to support therapeutic activities, such as the train room, the multisensory room, the therapeutic kitchen, and the music room.
The Don Bosco Retirement Home, in addition to being a place of care, is above all a place of real life where residents, family members, staff, and volunteers meet daily in an authentic relational exchange.
Credits
Stanze
Director
Amedeo Sartori
Music and audio mixing
Mattia Merlini
Production
UMAMI, 2024
In collaboration with
Main sponsors
Technical sponsor
