Once You’re Born You Can No Longer Hide
 

Director: Marco Tullio Giordana
Screenplay: Marco Tullio Giordana, Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli
Photography: Roberto Forza
Cast: Matteo Gadola, Alessio Boni, Michela Cescon, Rodolfo Corsato, Adriana Asti
Editing: Roberto Missiroli
Production: Cattleya, Rai Cinema
International Distribution: TF1 International, Immeuble Central Park, 9, rue Maurice Mallet, 92130 Issy-les-Moulineax, France,
tel. +33 1 41414267, fax +33 1 41413160, e-mail: capiot@tf1.fr 
Year: 2005. Running Time: 115’
  
Thirteen year-old Sandro is from Brescia in northern Italy, only son of a family that in just two generations has achieved significant wealth. One night, during a sailing trip through the Mediterranean, Sandro falls into the sea, and the others on board notice too late. When they return to look for him, there is no sign of the boy. Although given up for dead, Sandro, instead, has managed to be rescued by a fishing boat carrying illegal aliens to Italian shores. Thus, begins an adventurous return to Italy. Having confronted hitherto unknown expectations, rejections, hopes and disillusionments, Sandro has crossed over that thin line between adolescence and adulthood. And once over that threshold, nothing is like it was before.
From the novel by Maria Pace Ottieri, with same name.  
   
  
  
  
   

  

   

  

  
   

 

 

    

   

   

   

      

   

  

  
  

 

 
 
             
                

      
Marco Tullio Giordana 
Born in Milan in 1950, a background of intense political activity in the 70s, he presented his debut long feature film To Love the Damned (1979), at Cannes Festival and it was awarded Locarno Festival First Prize. He directed La caduta degli angeli ribelli in 1981, an ambitious work that did not achieve the successful result everybody expected. In ’84 he made an adaptation - in two parts - of the novel Notti e nebbie by Carlo Castellaneta where the main character was a fascist living in Milan during the final days of the Republic of Salò. In 1995 Giordana made Pasolini, an Italian Crime, and in 2000 he made The Hundred Steps. With The best of Youth (2004), he won the “A Certain Regard Prize” at Cannes Festival. Once You’re Born You Can No Longer Hide (2005), was also selected for the main competition at Cannes Festival.