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Documentary 78’: ON THE WRONG SIDE 

Produced by: Viola Film

Director: Luca Miniero

World Premiere at Festival Dei Popoli (Florence) - 5 November 2023

The incredible story of the eleven Melarancio flowers in a Naples caught between enchantment and despair. The tale of one of the most serious road accidents happened in Italy becomes a documentary.

Forty years later, the 1983 class of the "Nicolardi" middle school from the Vomero Arenella neighborhood of Naples reunites for a lunch. But it is not a reunion like any other. After the initial curiosity of getting together, the classmates relive the school anecdotes of those years with the natural spontaneity of a group of old friends, following the thread of memories and without any forcing from the director. Then the memory of "the deed" begins to become more and more present. The protagonists in fact, are the survivors of one of the most tragic road accidents in Italian history, which involved the bus on which they were traveling for a school trip, and an exceptional transport truck. Eleven thirteen-year-old children, those seated on the left side of the bus, fatally the wrong side, lost their lives in the impact. The event deeply marked not only a generation (mine), but also the city of Naples, which at the Collana stadium hosted the thirty thousand people who gathered to pay their respects to the victims.

The documentary recounts the unprecedented point of view of the survivors, and the guilt of a life that has been on the wrong side, from that moment, for them too..