Parapluie pictures is a film production company specialising in documentaries (cinema and TV) and investigative reportages. The company is based in Minusio, near Locarno, Switzerland, and was founded by Gianluca Monnier in 2012, after a long journalistic activity, first at Teleticino and then at RSI - Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana. Parapluie pictures was founded with the aim of producing documentaries and investigative works often made in tandem between Gianluca Monnier and director Andrée Julikà Tavares, but is open to stimulating and daring proposals. We are looking for a personal style, capable of narrating - from a particular point of view - this system we call reality.

In development

Steel Love

cinema documentary, project developed in the framework of EURODOC 22 // Current production stage: end of development / pre-production

 

Written & directed: Gianluca Monnier // treatment supervisor: Dario D’Amato // DOP: Andrea Caccia //

production: Nicola Bernasconi, ROUGH CAT (CH) // co-production: RSI Radiotelevisone svizzera (CH) // Sebastiano Luca Insinga, Jump Cut (IT)

Synopsis Terni, the place of origin of the director's mother, is the Italian city of steel and Saint Valentine. Where it is said once laid an immense necropolis, one of Europe’s largest steelworks has been built. In this place, personal biography and anthropological investigations intertwine with the singing of a working-class rock band, while a buried family truth begins to resurface.

Nordwind

cinema documentary, project in development // supported by Fondo Film Plus Svizzera italiana + Ticino Film Commission

 

Written & directed: Gianluca Monnier and Andrée Julikà Tavares //  production: parapluie pictures  // © 2023

Synopsis

 

In Heligoland, a remote german archipelago in the North Sea full of history and contradictions, science and nature intertwine between past, present and future. As off-shore wind farms rise off the coast, threatening the migration of birds, ornithologists struggle to preserve the fragile balance between clean energy research and nature conservation. A poetic tale about the dichotomies of our time and the invisible interconnections that define our reality.

 

 

 

Realised

Documentaries

Effetto Farfalla, 51', 2022, HD, produced by parapluie pictures, RSI
Holy Highway, 86', 2021, DCP, produced by parapluie pictures
Gradi di separazione, 8’05”, 2020, HD, Collection Lockdown, Swiss Filmmakers 2. Wave
Greetings from nowhere, 63',2019, DCP produced by Amka Films, RSI
Così come sei, 52', 2019, HD, produced by RSI, parapluie pictures Nei tuoi panni, 52', 2017, HD, produced by RSI, parapluie pictures Coltiva e resisti, 20, 2016, HD, produced by RSI, parapluie pictures

Investigative journalism

Titoli di coda?, 2024, Falò, produced by RSI and parapluie pictures L'estetica del cancro, 2022, Falò, produced by RSI and parapluie pictures

 

Non è un paese per giovani, 2021, Falò, produced by RSI and parapluie pictures Genitori nel labirinto, 2021,Falò, produced by RSI and parapluie pictures Così vicini, così lontani, 2020, produced by RSI and parapluie pictures
Oh, mio bio!, 2019, Patti Chiari, produced by RSI and parapluie pictures Prezzo nuovo, auto vecchia, 2020, Patti Chiari, produced by RSI and parapluie pictures L'officina delle paure, 2019, Patti Chiari, produced by RSI and parapluie pictures
"Il giallo della badante, 2016, Patti Chiari, produced by RSI and parapluie pictures Ti aggancio ma non ti sgancio, 2017, Patti Chiari, produced by RSI and parapluie pictures I negazionisti: Werner Munter, 2017, +3 gradi, produced by RSI and parapluie pictures
Menzione speciale all'8.edizione del Premio di Giornalismo della Svizzera Italiana. "Menzione per Il Giallo della badante, di Gianluca Monnier, RSI / Patti Chiari: L'inchiesta giornalistica di Gianluca Monnier getta luce su uno squallido caso di sfruttamento di una badante polacca in Ticino. Un'indagine sul territorio, lanciata dalla forte testimonianza-denuncia della donna, che ricostruisce metro per metro la filiera del malaffare dietro l'ingaggio della badante. Con parecchia creatività nella regia e nel montaggio e con sapiente dosaggio della suspence, il lavoro allinea fatti e dichiarazioni fino a scoprire il bandolo di una matassa, con risvolti penali, di una vicenda tanto intricata quanto scandalosa. Senza mai mollare la presa. Incontestabile la pubblica utilità di tale inchiesta a tutela degli anelli più sprovveduti e deboli della società."