Atlantide

    • Yuri Ancarani
    • Italy, France
    • 2021
    • 105 min
    • Dutch Premiere
    • Masters

    Life in Venice revolves around water, so the local teenagers don’t have souped-up mopeds, but powerful speedboats, or barchini instead. The tanned, muscular boys carve their initials into the city’s wooden mooring posts as well as the top speeds they’ve squeezed out of their boats.

    Daniele is one of these teenagers, from the island of Sant'Erasmo in the Venetian Lagoon. It’s just a stone’s throw from the touristic old town, yet a completely different world. Daniele spends the lazy summer days with his friends on their boats, accompanied by a constant soundtrack of thumping beats, or with his girlfriend, tinkering with his outboard motor. The silent posing of the boys among themselves contrasts sharply with the intimacy of the young couple.

    What begins realistically, as a documentary or hyper-realistic fiction, explodes into an operatic climax around a violent initiation ritual that is doomed to fail.

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    • 105 min
    • color
    • DCP
    • Spoken languages: Italian
    • Subtitles in: English
    Director
    Yuri Ancarani
    Production
    Marco Alessi for Dugong Films, Marta Tagliavia for Dugong Films
    Co-production
    Hédi Zardi for Luxbox, Fiorella Moretti for Luxbox
    Cinematography
    Yuri Ancarani
    Editing
    Yuri Ancarani

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