04/05. Wednesday

21:15 Principe cinemas 10

Atlantide

Yuri Ancarani / Italy, France, Qatar (2021 - 104’ - VOSE)

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Daniele is a young man from Sant’Erasmo, an island on the edges of the Venice Lagoon. He lives on his wits, isolated even from his peer group who are busy exploring an existence of pleasure-seeking expressed in the cult of the barchino (motorboat). This obsession focusses on the building of ever more powerful engines to transform the little lagoon launches into dangerously fast racing boats. Daniele too dreams of a record-breaking barchino, one that will take him to the top of the leader board, but everything he does to further his dream and win respect from the others turns out to be tragically counterproductive. The decline that erodes the relationships, environment and habits of a rootless generation is observed from the timeless perspective of the Venetian landscape and its island outskirts: the point of no return is a foolish, vestigial tale of male initiation. Violent and destined to fail, it explodes dragging the ghost city along on a psychedelic shipwreck.

Data sheet

  • Director: Yuri Ancarani
  • Year: 2021
  • Country: Italy, France, Qatar
  • Length: 104 min.
  • Original language: Italian
  • Leadings: Daniele Barison, Maila Dabala, Bianka Berényi, Alberto Tedesco
  • Camera: Yuri Ancarani
  • Editor: Yuri Ancarani
  • Producers: Marco Alessi, Marta Tagliavia
  • Film company: Dugong Films, Luxbox, Unbranded Pictures, Alebrije Producciones, Mirfilm

Yuri Ancarani

Yuri Ancarani

Yuri Ancarani (1972) is an Italian video artist and director. His works come from a continuous mingling of documentary, cinema and art, and are the result of a research aimed to explore regions which are not very visibile in the daily life, realities in which the artist delves in first person. With his film “The Challenge” (2016) he has won the Special Jury Prize at Locarno and in the same year has been mentioned in New York Times among the “Nine new directors you need to watch”. His works have been shown at national and international museums and exhibitions, such as: Venice Biennal, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin), MAXXI (Rome), Triennale (Milan), Castello di Rivoli (Turin), Kunsthalle (Basel), R. Solomon Guggenheim Museum (New York), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles) and at several film festivals, such as: New Directors/New Films, Locarno, Rotterdam, Viennale, SXSW, TIFF Toronto, Venice Film Festival.