Bath
People

The story of one of the last public baths in Italy and the stories of the people who frequent it

Director Stefania Bona, Francesca Scalisi DOP Stefania Bona Editor Francesca Scalisi, Marzia Mete Music Matteo Castellano Produced by Alessandro Carroli, Luigi Pepe, Laura D’Amore Production EIE film, Jump Cut, Don Quixote
Country Italy Running time 59′ Year 2015

A red brick building, with a large neon sign: ‘bathrooms’. They are the last municipal baths of Turin to provide this service to the citizens. It is a microcosm of stories that intersect over time of one of the most intimate aspects of everyone’s life: cleaning one’s body.

A place for meetings of social categories that were once very distinct, today united by the same need. A place of clashes where poverty sometimes takes the form of anger. A precious place, because where poverty manifests itself, sharing and listening also become the principles for a rebirth.