Scott Graham – director – Iona
FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti is joined again by Scott Graham, at the Torino Film Festival to present, in Festa Mobile, his second feature film IONA. After winning the Torino Film festival in 2012, Graham focuses again on a female protagonist who goes back to her native village with her son, to escape a reality she can’t face anymore.
Her scottish village, IONA, who she is named after, may be the worst place possible to escape since she is, maybe unconsciously forced to come to terms with all the things she left unsolved. Eventually IONA will find her release at a painful cost.
IONA: Iona left the island where she was born and the Christian community that raised her when she was fifteen years old. Now that she has a son of her own that age, she returns to her hometown, finding peace of mind in physical labor. While Iona shies away from her former community’s displays of spirituality, they seem to intrigue her teenage son Bull. Something serious drove mother and son to seek refuge on that island, something they cannot seem to forget despite being protected by the waters surrounding them.