Al di là di ieri

Fifty years ago, an earthquake destroyed Gemona. What rebuilt it wasn’t just concrete and timber — it was people. Volunteers who came from across Italy and beyond, neighbors who shared what little they had left, strangers who became family.
Beyond Yesterday goes back to Gemona to ask a simple question: is that spirit still alive?

The project follows three real stories across three generations. A teenager navigating the world mostly through a screen. A young couple with a newborn, trying to figure out what kind of future is possible here. And an elderly man who came from abroad as a volunteer in 1976 and is now returning — after fifty years — to find the family he once helped.

These three stories don’t just run in parallel. They meet. And when they do, something happens that is more than a film: a collective event that brings the community together, not to look back, but to do something together now.

The project works through documentary footage, personal video diaries, archive materials, school workshops, and direct actions in the territory. It isn’t a commemoration. It’s an attempt to understand how a community lives in the present — and whether the bonds formed in a moment of crisis can still mean something today.

Stage of Development: Production

Project by: Primi Piani, Staragara IT