Sceneggiatura / Screenplay: Maria Giménez Cavallo, Jackson Allen Giuricich Fotografia / Photography: Nicholas Giuricich. Montaggio / Editing: Maria Giménez Cavallo, Valentina Andreoli Musica / Music: Quartetto Andhira Suono / Sound: Cladinè Curreli, Roberto Cois Scenografia / Set Designer: Francesca Angioni Costumi / Costume Designer: Salvatore Aresu Interpreti / Cast: Benjamin Miyakawa, Valentina Picciau, Anastasiya Bogach, Egidiana Carta, Gerardo Ferrara, Riccardo Bombagi Produzione / Produced by: Animafilms in collaborazione con / in collaboration with Image Hunters Con il sostegno di / Supported by: Fondazione Sardegna Film Commission Distribuzione internazionale, distribuzione per l’Italia / World Sales, Distributed in Italy by: Pathos Distribution
Inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Wandering Souls mixes visual and musical ethnography with classical mythology, documentary methods with fantasy. The film performs in a new way the stories of the most intriguing characters of Metamorphoses, including Persephone, Arachne, Callisto, Europa, Daphne and Orpheus. The transformations of forms into new bodies are narrated by the Parca who cuts the thread of life. These episodes are interwoven and tied together by the presence of the philosopher Pythagoras, who accompanies us on a journey from the origins of the world to the present day. The mythological tales are reinvented through Sardinian tradition and culture.
“The genesis of the film was the encounter between reality and magic on the island of Sardinia, where tradition lives on as a vestige of ancient eras … Ovid inspired my storytelling style, moving seamlessly from one story to another… Ovid presents a transcendental discourse through the philosopher Pythagoras, in which souls pass from one body to another, suggesting that all in the universe is interconnected.” (M. Giménez Cavallo)
Maria Giménez Cavallo
Film director Maria Giménez Cavallo was born in New York in 1992 to an Italian- American mother and a Spanish father, graduated in Film History, Italian Studies, and French Studies from Columbia University in 2014. Afterwards, she moved to Paris, where she worked with Abdellatif Kechiche on the Mektoub, My Love trilogy. Subsequently, she collaborated with the Italian production company Avventurosa, owned by Pietro Marcello. She has also participated in various workshops, including In Progress at the Milano Film Network and Locarno Spring Academy. Wandering Souls was one of the projects selected by This is IT in 2023. The film had its premiere at Alice nelle città festival in Rome.
filmografia scelta / selected filmography
2020 Jeanne, petite bergère (The Little Shepherdess) cm / sf; Pastourelle doc. cm / sf 2021 La grande quercia (Tale of the Great Oak) cm / sf 2022 La visita cm / sf 2024 Anime galleggianti (Wandering Souls)
