Italy, Switzerland, Sweden 2023Language:Italian, EnglishSubtitles:EnglishDirector:Valentina Cicogna & Mattia ColomboWriter:Valentina Cicogna, Mattia ColomboCinematographer:Jacopo LoiodiceEditor:Valentina CicognaMusic:Zeno GabaglioSound:Simone Paolo Olivero, Paolo BenvenutiProducer:Sebastiano Luca Insinga, Chiara NicolettiProduction Company:Jump Cut, Amka, SisyfosDistributor:Film Harbour93 min, Colour

Night after night, nameless dead bodies are brought to Dr Christina Cattaneo's autopsy. She calls them the ‘pure unknowns’, people on the margins of society. Most of them are washed up on Italy's shores by the Mediterranean, refugees who have drowned on their way to Europe. Our focus is on the living, but what about the dead, what about their right to be treated with dignity? Dr Cattaneo is trying to give these people back their identity, to give family members certainty about what happened to those who never arrived. She fights for a law that gives the nameless the right to be identified. A calmly observant portrait of an extraordinary woman.

Director's Biography:Valentina Cicogna works as a director, screenwriter and editor. She co-wrote the screenplay for Mattia Colombo's first directorial work (I WANNA SLEEP WITH YOU, 2015). PURE UNKNOWN is the first feature film they have directed together.

Director's Filmography:
2022 IL POSTO (DOC, Mattia Colombo)
2017 THE CALL (Valentina Cicogna)
2015 TREES THAT WALK (DOC, Mattia Colombo)
2013 THE HUMAN FACTOR (Writer, Valentina Cicogna)