PURE UNKNOWN

SCONOSCIUTI PURI

By Mattia COLOMBO, Valentina CICOGNA

FILM HARBOUR - as SALES

Documentary - Completed 2023

A person who dies without a name is like a story without an ending.

Festivals
& Awards

Visions du Réel 2023
Compétition Internationale Longs Métrages
Karlovy Vary IFF 2023
AJB DOCS 2023
Special Mention in the Main Competition
Biografilm 2023
Audience Award, Celebration of Lives Award for Cristina Cattaneo
DMZ DOCS 2023
Special Jury Award in the International Competition
FIPADOC Biarritz 2024
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Social issues
    • Countries
    • ITALY, SWITZERLAND, SWEDEN
    • Languages
    • ITALIAN, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 93 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Mattia COLOMBO, Valentina CICOGNA
    • Producer(s)
    • Sebastiano Luca INSINGA (JUMP CUT), Chiara NICOLETTI (JUMP CUT), Amel SOUDANI (AMKA FILMS PRODUCTIONS), Nicola BERNASCONI, Mario ADAMSON (SISYFOS FILM PRODUCTION)
    • Synopsis
    • Every night nameless bodies land in Dr. Cristina Cattaneo’s autopsy room. She calls them Pure Unknown.

      The Pure Unknown belong to the fringes of society. They are homeless, prostitutes, runaway teenagers. Lately, they have mostly been migrants, rejected by the Mediterranean Sea onto the shores of Italy.

      If all rights belong to the living, nothing is left to the dead. So what happens when the dead have lost their identity?

      In the face of this growing multitude, no one seems concerned about their right to dignity.
      No one but Cristina.