Mir: the social tailoring where nothing is discarded and everyone finds a place. A kind revolution possible

There is a place, in the heart of Orvieto, where the waste become treasure and the wounded lives find a thread to follow. Is called Mir, As “peace” in Russian, but also as a collective wish. It is a social tailoring, an open laboratory, where nothing is thrown away and nobody is excluded. The screenwriter tells her Chiara Atalanta Ridolfito his first work as director, with the documentary Mir. Storie from a world of peace and intertwining daily gestures, hands that sew and light but necessary words. In this space, forgotten fabrics take new shape, and together with them also the stories of those who work them: women who have known violence, held in an alternative extent, people with disabilities. Mir It is a workplace, but also listening, care and transformation. And perhaps it is precisely in these minimum gestures and patients that we can imagine another economy, another way of being in the world.

“I wrote, then directed, this documentary”, explains the director Chiara Atalanta Ridolfi, “with the desire to make the experience of the MIR beyond the boundaries of the city or the region known, and to tell the importance of this as of all the small laborious, solidarity and cohesive communities, which silently remember the tears, reconnecting the social fabric and offering another possibility to many people who would otherwise be relegated to the borders, roles of marginality or passivity. And through the history of Mir And of those who work there, give a message of hope ».

In a historical moment in which the noise of hatred seems to occupy all the public space, Mirpresented by the director and the troupe in Rome at the cinema of the provinces with an introduction by Christian Raimo, gives life a silent, stubborn and kind countername. Here, sustainability is not a slogan but a principle that crosses every gesture. Nothing is thrown away: the discarded fabrics, the cutouts considered useless by industry, are collected, ordered, put back alive. They reborn in bags, aprons, shirts, but also in human relationships made of listening, time and trust. It is a sustainability that concerns materials, of course, but also and above all people. “Mir is a special place for me, where a small silent revolution is renewed every day, made of low voices in an amazing world, which proposes a change of perspective through this cure”Chiara Atalanta Ridolfi continues. «That is the cure of the planet – and therefore recycling, maintenance and reuse against the culture of waste, with a view to circular economy – but also care of others, through a process of responsibility towards others, towards those who are more vulnerable. Because there can be no ecology without adequate anthropology. And a real ecological approach always becomes a social approach. And because, as Pope Francis wrote, sooner or later we will notice that giving up investing in people to obtain greater immediate profit is a bad deal for society “.

The director Chiara Atalanta Ridolfi together with the troupe

In a historical moment in which the noise of hatred seems to occupy all the public space, the Mir
It looks like a silent, stubborn and kind countername. Here, sustainability is not one
slogans but a principle that crosses every gesture. Nothing is thrown away: the discarded fabrics, the clippings
Considered useless by industry, they are collected, ordered, put back alive. They are reborn in bags,
aprons, shirts, but also in human relationships made of listening, time and trust. It is sustainability
That concerns the materials, of course, but also and above all people. Mir It welcomes those who have been excluded elsewhere. Those who enter here must not demonstrate that they are “productive”, “performing”. He just has to be. And to have time, all the time you need, to mend not only the fabrics, but also your wounds. In this sense, Mir is not just a social tailoring: it is a political project, a concrete position. In a world that discards bodies and biographies with the same ease with which he throws the goods away, Chiara Atalanta Ridolfi shows us the real existence of a place where nothing and nobody is too much. And he invites us to ask us: what would happen if this way of doing became the norm, and not the exception?

The documentary, made thanks to the support of the Own Air production house, by Alfredo and Lorenzo Borrelli and the contribution of Umbria Film Commissionrelies on the gestures, faces, slow rhythm of craftsmanship. And precisely in this simplicity he finds his strength: Mir It gives us back the idea that another economy is possible. More human, slower, more circular, more sustainable, more fair. Mir does not solve everything. He does not claim to do it. But sowing: beauty, dignity, possibility. This small Orvieto laboratory reminds us that we can also welcome, wait, repair. That fragility is not a system error, but a human condition to embrace. And that from a waste, if you look carefully, if you give it time, something surprisingly precious can be born.

Mir. Storie from a world will be presented on Monday 9 June at 20.30, at the Méliès cinema in Perugia (via della Viola, 1)