Film directed by Augusto Contento, co-produced by Cineparallax and Articolture, selected out of competition at the 78th Venice Film Festival, 2021. An exploration of the roads that lead into the cold darkness of Italian decline: decline of the family, of patriarchal society, of educational institutions, of religion. In a land where common, public, shared space is molded by a drab, amorphous egotism, even its revolutionary, socialist, communist ideals, mixed with a Manichaean Catholicism, have been transformed into fideistic and totalitarian dogmas.

Original soundtrack composed and played by Paolo Cantù, featuring Thiago França on sax and flute and vocal contributions by Federico Ciappini, Laetitia Sadier, Mark Stewart, Juçara Marçal, Margareth Kammerer and Audrey Chen.

Festival:

Romania BUZZ IFF 2022 (Documentary section) Best Documentary

Russia Pacific Meridian FF 2022 (Documentary section)

Italy - Sudestival, Monopoli (Documentary section) Best Documentary

The Netherlands Rotterdam Film Festival 2022 (Cinema Regained)

Italy Trieste Film Festival 2022 (The Corso Salani Competition) Special Mention of the Jury

Italy Venice Film Festival 2021 (Out of competition) World Premiere

 

 

 

TRACKLISTS:

 

Ballo

(feat. Federico Ciappini, Thiago França) listen 

 

We Were Fireflights

(feat. Mark Stewart, Thiago França)

 

Love in the Asylum listen

 

Corro dentro ai glicini 

(feat. Laetitia Sadier and Mark Stewart)

 

Scacco matto alla regina

 

Darkson

(feat. Mark Stewart, Thaigo França)

 

Tomorrow is the past  listen

 

Faceless

(feat. Margareth Kammerer, Juçara Marçal, Audrey Chen) listen

 

Karpov il matto

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