November 2024 -
"The entire team of Bangkok Movie Awards, thrilled to inform you that your project has been selected as an
AWARD WINNER by our juries".
November 2024 - HONORABLE MENTION CATEGORY: DOCUMENTARY
Athens International Monthly Film Festiva
November 2024 - AWARD WINNER
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM AWARD
The Buddha International Film Festival (Pune, India)
* 2024 - November OFFICIAL SELECTED (Cat. Best Documentary and Best Producer) - BELGRADE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Serbia)
2025 - January - OFFICIAL SELECTED (Best Documentary)Indo Dubai International Film Festival
2024 - December 25 - Arjuntala International Film Festival
AWARD WINNER BEST BIOPIC
Jury release: "Gianni Torres delivers an extraordinary and deeply moving experience with Taibale, Story of a Rescued Child, a groundbreaking exploration of documentary filmmaking. Through an innovative visual language and masterful storytelling, Torres brings to life a tale that spans continents and generations, weaving past and present into a powerful narrative of survival, resilience, and hope. The Arjuntala International Film Festival (AIFF) commends Torres for his profound ability to capture the indomitable spirit of Taibale, a hidden child who overcame unimaginable tragedy to become a beacon of philanthropy and strength. Taibale, Story of a Rescued Child stands as both a tribute to an incredible life and a testament to the enduring power of humanity in the face of adversity, cementing Gianni Torres’s place as a visionary in documentary cinema".
2025 March - Eastern Europe Film Festival (Romania) SPECIAL AWARD Best Documentary
2025 January - Future of Film Awards (North Macedonia - Monthly) - AWARD WINNER - BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
2025
STOCKHOLM CITY
FILM FESTIVAL
SEMI FINALIST
9 Nov. 2025 - OFFICIAL SELECTION
Festeival IbericoLatino Americano di Trieste - Shalom, il sentiero ebraico nell'America Latina
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2025 March - The Bridge of Peace Film Festival (Paris, France) AWARD WINNER Best Documentary
2025 February - Cinematic European Film Festival (Romania) OFFICIAL SELECTED
2025 March - Amsterdam New Cinema Film Festival - AWARD WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY
2025 March - Luleå International Film Festival (Sweden) FINALIST Best Documentary
OFFICIAL SELECTED
(3 - 10 october 2025)
APOX Film Festival (CROATIA)
Documentary
2025 March - Indipendent Film Awards (Leeds UK) HONORABLE MENTION
TAIBALE - Story of a rescued child (72') 2024
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This documentary is somewhat pioneering: we have created a hybrid documentary, innovative, experimental, where reality is supplemented by the use of artificial intelligence, without changing the truth being told.
We created the genre; it did not exist before. Some have called it the Documentai genre.
The documentary “Taibale” is an ideal tool to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of Nazifascism, which occurred precisely in 1945, offering a modern and engaging perspective on past events that have profoundly marked human history.
The Documentai film is written and directed by Gianni Torres
TAIBALE - Story of a rescued child
LOGLINE
The documentary tells the untold story of 85-year-old Antonieta Felmanas (in Yiddish, Taibale Reichel), a powerful testimony of survival and empathy. Before World War II, her Jewish family, the Reichel, lived in Kazyany (formerly Poland, then Lithuania, and now Belarus). After the USSR-Germany pact, the Russians entered their territory and ordered her mother—despite being pregnant with Antonieta—to perform forced labour in Kazakhstan, where Antonieta was born on May 1, 1940.
Her entire family and relatives were exterminated by the Nazis. From the first Soviet invasion, Antonieta experienced the violence of expulsion and tragedy, which culminated with the arrival of German troops. Forced to flee, she was hidden first by a Christian baron and later by a peasant couple. At the end of the war, she was rescued by her cousin Rivka, a Partisan fighter, with whom she undertook a perilous journey from Lithuania to Italy. There, a Jewish organisation called “Joint” connected Rivka with a distant Brazilian relative willing to adopt Antonieta.
At the age of six, she arrived in São Paulo, Brazil. As she grew up, she developed a profound sense of solidarity and fraternity with those who had nothing. In adulthood, she became an active philanthropist, co-founding some of the country’s most important socio-cultural institutions and, in the challenging outskirts of São Paulo, the Anchieta Grajaú Institute, located in a beautiful Atlantic forest. One night, the institute was invaded by 5,000 homeless people who, by burning and devastating the forest, rapidly built a favela. While in the city all the other 40 occupations were dismantled by the army, the only one who opposed repression and instead chose to welcome and protect the invaders was Taibale, who still repeats today: “No one deserves to be expelled from the place where they live.”
Her inspiring story exemplifies the power of solidarity and the capacity for transformation in the face of adversity.
The film is narrated in the first person by the protagonist and enriched with extensive archival material—photographs, unpublished audio recordings, and an innovative experiment in which memory is complemented with images generated by artificial intelligence, giving rise to a new, previously nonexistent genre: the DocumentAI.
LOGLINE short: A surprising and unedited story that crosses Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, Germany, Russia, Italy, Brazil, Israel. A story of children devastated and saved. A innovative visual language to narrate the past and current events that merge in the implacable force of TAIBALE, a baby girl of 85-year-old of Jewish origin, today one most important benefactors in Sao Paulo (Brazil).
A Coproduction Italy/Brazil: ALTRE PRODUZIONI (ITALY) with the participation of CASADEFORÇA PRODUÇÕES (BRAZIL)
Music: Vincenzo Abbracciante - https://www.vinceabbracciante.com
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Aerial view of the Grajaú (Sao Paulo, Brazil) neighborhood where the Instituto Anchieta Grajaú was built
" What is Love? Love is when you make the other person happy."
Antonieta Felmanas/Taibale Reichel
© TAIBALE DOCUMENTAI
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