Within the small laboratory of theater of the Mancuso family, a child plays with puppets, surrounded by the silence of an imaginary audience. With Borgo Vecchio, Palermo as a background and under the Sicilian tradition of the Puppets’ Opera, a boy recreates, mimics and tangles reality with fantasy, hence making his way towards knowledge and future.
Miriam Cossu Sparagano Ferraye
Miriam Cossu Sparagano Ferraye (1990), born in Palermo, has graduated from the Bologna University in Anthropology, Religions and Oriental Civilizations and has attended courses in Street Photography at Irfoss. In 2017, she studied at the Ethnographic Film School in Monselice and participated in the Multisensory Video Alphabetization workshops by Rodolfo Bisatti. In 2018, she returned to Palermo to further her film studies at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) National School of Cinema. Pupus (2021) has toured many film festivals winning important awards. Currently stable in Palermo, she collaborates with the association Zabbara-FunKino carrying out a participatory cinema workshop at the Ucciardone prison.